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Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)

Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 183

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hand. ILLUMINATED PLATING-CARDS. 167 the press. Books of a few pages, pictures rudely colouredby hand, as well as cards, were stamped or stencilled forthe people, while the miniatori were elaborating the vellumpages for the prince and the wealthy burgher. Filippo MariaYisconti, Duke of Milan, had a… … Michel Wohlgemuth, Diirers Master. cutting away all the wood, and leaving only the delicatelines of the design drawn by the artist, was too elaborateto be brought to perfection at once. But in little morethan half a century, in connection with the press andsimultaneously in Venice, Nurnberg, and…

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