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The masters and master-pieces of engraving (1894)

Chapin, Willis O · New York: Harper & Bros. · leaf 95

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over seven feet in length; the largest cut, the Car,measures about eighteen inches in height. In Diirer, Maximilian found an artist able and willing to aidhim in his schemes for self-glorification. Besides the Archand Car, Diirer contributed to the so-called Triumph of Max- 58 THE MASTERS AND… … WOOD-CUT FROM DURERS SMALLER PASSION Emperor, among them the remarkable decorations in thefamous Prayer-book of Maximilian, and while at Augsburg,during the Diet of 1518, he drew a charcoal portrait of the Em- JOURNEY INTO THE NETHERLANDS 59 peror which is still preserved in the Albertina.…

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