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Prints; a brief review of their technique and history (1914)

Richter, Emil Heinrich, 1869- · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 184

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of etching occasionally ina hasty, sketchy style. The sensuous charmof their lithe, long figures appealed to Frenchtaste, and elicited a response in the platesetched by Jean CousiU; for instance. Inall this early production we feel the domi-nating influence of Italian art, with an occa-sional echo… … >—J CO FRANCE and by the end of the seventeenth centurywe find her a leader in engraving, and by nomeans in engraving only. As we enter uponthis broad development, we must cast aglance on two personalities of distinct origi-nality, namely, Jacques Callot and ClaudeLorrain. Both are natives of…

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