Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and History — John Shaqi
Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and HistoryRichter, Emil H. (Emil Heinrich)
History
Prints: A Brief Review of Their Technique and History
Richter, Emil H. (Emil Heinrich)
Engravers; Engraving -- History
Not a sudden invention, 12. Utilitarian origin,
14. The past reviewed, 15. The panel
picture and its cheap substitute, 18. Saints’
pictures, 20. Playing cards, 21. Increasing
demand for pictures, 24. Block-books, movable
type, 26. Book illustration in Germany and
Italy, 28. Examples of early woodcuts: German,
30, Italian, 32.
III. THE EARLY DAYS OF ENGRAVING 35
Intaglio printing, the goldsmith’s niello,
35. Engraving in Germany and Italy, attitude
and results, 37. Anonymous masters, 40.
Schongauer, 41. Early Italian examples, 44. Pollajuolo,
Mantegna, 46. Giulio Campagnola, 47.
IV. ITALY 49
The professional engraver, 49. Marcantonio
Raimondi, 50. The publisher, 51. Revival;
Carracci, 52. Painter-etchers, 53. Later developments;
Canaletto, 55. The classical engravers,
55. Chiaroscuro woodcut, 56.
V. GERMANY 59
Culmination, Dürer, 60. Lucas van Leyden,
65. Italian influence, 66. Little masters, 67.
Woodcut: Cranach, Holbein, 69. The two
masters, Dürer and Holbein, 70. Decline, 71.
VI. THE NETHERLANDS 73
History. Flemish and Dutch art, 73. Engraver
families, commerce in Saints’ pictures, 75.
Virtuosi of the graver, Goltzius, 76. Rubens
and his engravers, 77. Van Dyck, 78. Cornel
Visscher, 79. Rembrandt, 80. Ostade, 84. Ruysdael.
Landscape and animal etchers, 85. Italian
influence, decline, 86.
VII. FRANCE 87
Woodcut illustrations, 87. Engraving, Jean
Duvet, 89. The Fontainebleau school, 90. Callot,
Claude Lorrain, 91. Portrait engraving,
93. Mellan, 94. Morin, 95. Nanteuil, 96. Edelinck
and others, 97. New processes, 100. Color-prints,
book ornamentation, 101. Classical engraving,
Wille, 104. Italian preëminence, 105.
Etchers, vignettists, 105. SPAIN: Goya, 107.
VIII. ENGLAND 109
Early days, Hollar. English engravers, 109.
Hogarth, 110. Bartolozzi, 110. Mezzotint engravers,
111. Earlom, 113. Wood-engraving:
Bewick, 114.
IX. THE UNITED STATES 116
Colonial times; Pelham, Peale, 116. Stipple;
book illustration, 117. Wood-engraving, the
tone engravers, 118. Etching, 120.
X. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 121
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