ENGRAVERS AND ETCHERS [Illustration: MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET. TWO LOVERS Size of the original engraving, 6½ × 4⅛ inches In the Ducal Collection, Coburg] ENGRAVERS AND ETCHERS SIX LECTURES DELIVERED ON THE SCAMMON FOUNDATION AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, MARCH 1916 BY FITZROY CARRINGTON, M. A. CURATOR OF PRINTS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON; LECTURER ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF ENGRAVING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY; EDITOR OF “THE PRINT-COLLECTOR’S QUARTERLY” WITH 133 ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration] THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1917 COPYRIGHT 1917 THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY WASHINGTON BALTIMORE NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA TO THOSE WHO HELPED ME MAKE THIS BOOK IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION _NOTE_ _The lectures presented in this volume comprise the twelfth series delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago on the Scammon Foundation. The Scammon Lectureship is established on an ample basis by bequest of Mrs. Maria Sheldon Scammon, who died in 1901. The will prescribes that these lectures shall be upon the history, theory, and practice of the Fine Arts (meaning thereby the graphic and plastic arts), by persons of distinction or authority on the subject on which they lecture, such lectures to be primarily for the benefit of the students of the Art Institute, and secondarily for members and other persons. The lectures are known as “The Scammon Lectures.”_ CONTENTS PAGE _LECTURE I_ GERMAN ENGRAVING: FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO MARTIN SCHONGAUER 13 _LECTURE II_ ITALIAN ENGRAVING: THE FLORENTINES 51 _LECTURE III_ GERMAN ENGRAVING: THE MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET AND ALBRECHT DÜRER 95 _LECTURE IV_ ITALIAN ENGRAVING: MANTEGNA TO MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI 139 _LECTURE V_ SOME MASTERS OF PORTRAITURE 181 _LECTURE VI_ LANDSCAPE ETCHING 227 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE