Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 24
ed a rude form of wood-engraving as an industry,while the works of the latter are the beginnings of an art. Inthe early years of the fifteenth century rude wood-cuts of Biblesubjects and of saints and martyrs of the Church were scatteredthrough Upper Germany, the Low Countries, and Flemish EARLY… … ST. CHRISTOPHER (1423) letter. There can be little doubt that many of these cuts wereproduced in the convents and circulated in the interests of theChurch. The earliest dated wood-cut of accepted authenticity is thefamous St. Christopher of 1423, discovered in 1769 by Hein-ecken, in the library of…
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