The Knight and Lansquenet, c. 1512. By 1509 colour prints were successfully produced by printing the line block in black but using a second block to print the background colour. Unprinted areas of white paper formed the highlights. Wechtlin’s The Knight and Lansquenet is a beautiful example of this technique.

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Keywords: 1480/85-aft, 1526, 16th, art, black, blue, century, chiaroscuro, cleveland, heritage, museum, print, woodcut