A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . quam utiHs, lectuque jucundus. Accesseruntetiam venustissimge Imagines omnes omnium artificum negociantes ad vivum lectorirepresentantes, antehac nee visas nee unquam seditae: per Hartman Schopperum, Novo-forens. Noricum.—Frankofurti ad Moenum, cum privelegio Caesario, 410 FURTHEK PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF original, is a Brief malar,—literally, a card-painter, the name by whichthe German wood engravers were known before they adopted themore appropriate one of Formschneider. It is evident, that, at thetime when the cut was eng
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . quam utiHs, lectuque jucundus. Accesseruntetiam venustissimge Imagines omnes omnium artificum negociantes ad vivum lectorirepresentantes, antehac nee visas nee unquam seditae: per Hartman Schopperum, Novo-forens. Noricum.—Frankofurti ad Moenum, cum privelegio Caesario, 410 FURTHEK PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF original, is a Brief malar,—literally, a card-painter, the name by whichthe German wood engravers were known before they adopted themore appropriate one of Formschneider. It is evident, that, at thetime when the cut was engraved, the two professions were distinct: ?•we here perceive the Briefmaler employed, not in engraving cuts, butengaged in colouring certain figures by means of a stencil,—that is,a card or thin plate of metal, out of which the intended figure is brush charged with colour being drawn over the pierced card, asis seen in the cut, the figure is communicated to the paper placedunderneath. The little shallow vessels perceived on the top of the. large box in front are the saucers which contain his colours. Nearthe window, immediately to his right, is a pile of sheets which, fromthe figure of a man on horseback seen impressed upon them, appearto be already finished. The subject of the following cut, from the same work, is aFormschneidkr, or wood engraver proper. He is apparently at workon a block which he has before him ; but the kind of tool which heemploys is not exactly like those used by English wood engravers * The Briefmalers, though at that time evidently distinct froni the Formschneiders, stillcontinued io print wood-cuts. On several large wood-cuts with the dates ir)r).3 and 1554 wefind the words, Gedrukt zu Niirnbcrg duvch Hanus Glaser, Brieffmala: WOOD ENGRAVING. 411 of the present day. It seems to resemble a small long-handleddesk-knife; while the tool of the modern wood engraver has a handlewhich is rounded at the top in order to accommodate it to the palmof
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