An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving : upon copper and in wood, with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the time of Marc' Antonio Raimondi (1816)
Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836, Beckford, William, 1760-1844, former owner. CMalG, Bromley, William, 1769-1842, Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, Edwards, George, 1694-1773. CMalG, Swaine, John, 1775-1860 · London : Printed for John and Arthur Arch by J. M'Creery · leaf 182
he engravings of Martin Schongauer, thatthej^ all of them evince considerable facility in the management ofthe burin; whence he is of opinion, that he did not apply himselfto engraving on copper, for the purpose of impression, until afterhe had acquired a thorough command of his instrument by… … J^ t CHAP, viii] MARTIN SCHONGAUER. 647 at least, that none of the engravings of Schongauer now known,appertain to a period more remote than about the year 1475. Atall events, there seems every reason to believe, that by far thegreater portion of them were executed in the last twenty years ofthe…
