A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . -The Master of the ATount of in Armour. 26 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS witli considerable pomp, and the print was no doubt sold as amemorial to the pilgrims who attended the commemoration. Apart. Fig. 6.—The Master E. S. Virgin and Child with St. Margaret andSt. Catherine in a Garden. from its subject the plate itself has a historical interest. It passedmto Italy, and with the original lines erased and the surfaceburnished, but still sh
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . -The Master of the ATount of in Armour. 26 THE EARLIEST ENGRAVERS witli considerable pomp, and the print was no doubt sold as amemorial to the pilgrims who attended the commemoration. Apart. Fig. 6.—The Master E. S. Virgin and Child with St. Margaret andSt. Catherine in a Garden. from its subject the plate itself has a historical interest. It passedmto Italy, and with the original lines erased and the surfaceburnished, but still showing some traces of the old composition, MASTER E. S.—SCHONGAUER 27 served an anonymous Umbrian engraver before the end of thecentury for a figure of the famous warrior Giierino Meschino. Thiswould hardly have been done unless the plate in its original statehad been quite worn out, so we may assume that the number ofimpressions taken from the plate must have been considerable. Although E. S. is a constant interpreter of the forms of Gothicarchitecture, he nevertheless seldom fails to commit the mostevident errors in perspective. An egregious example is the Aiiniin-ciation ivith the Round Arch (P. II. 69, 3), which Israhel vanMeckenem easily corrects in his copy, just as the author of thewood-cuts in the Blockbook of the Ars Moriendi correct
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