An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of Engraving (Volume 2); 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 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Some account of the principal Engravers of Germany and the Low Countries, and their Works, from the earliest period until the time of Albert Durer and-Lucas van Leyden. Wood Engraving brought to perfection by the talents of Albert Durer, Hans Burgmair, and Holbein. IN the course of our inquiries concerning the origin and establishment of Chalcography in Italy, we have found ourselves more than once called upon to animadvert upon the mistatements as well as the arguments by which Mr. Bartsch seeks to deprive that country of the honours due to her as inventress of the art in question; or at least to force her to an unworthy compromise of her pretensions. . We have now to perform the more grateful task of expressing our obligations to the same writer for much novel and important information, which he has given us relative to the early engravers of Germany and the Low Countries; and to congratulate him on the ability wherewith, in treating of those schools, he has separated the sterling of facts from the dross and deceitful glitter of false testimony and fanciful conjecture. This part of Mr. Bartsch's. De Murr, (' Beytrsige zu der Geschichte mentions eleven engravings representing 'the der altesten Kupferstiche. p. 12, ) upon the Passion of Christ, ' bearing date 1440. authority of a catalogue of prints and draw-Bartsch observes that it is doubtful, from ings written in 1618 by one Paul Behaim, Behaim's description of these pieces, whether publication is indeed, on the whole, so unexceptionable, that we have little left to perform in the present chapter, save to present the reader with an epitome of the sixth, and part of the seventh volumes of the ' Peintre Graveur, ' accompanied by such brief remarks as the subject may occasionally suggest, and the add...