A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . o della donna sara maschio o femina ; sel soguo fatto sara vero ; sel fin del huomo sarabuono. The three small illustrations of the last query are of evil omen ; in one, is seen agallows ; in another, a man praying ; and in the third, the quarters of a human body hungup in terrorem. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEER. 317 of the energetic manner in which that great artist is said to haveused his mallet and chisel when engaged on works of cut, however, is made to represent several other sculptors besidesthe great Florentine ; it
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . o della donna sara maschio o femina ; sel soguo fatto sara vero ; sel fin del huomo sarabuono. The three small illustrations of the last query are of evil omen ; in one, is seen agallows ; in another, a man praying ; and in the third, the quarters of a human body hungup in terrorem. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEER. 317 of the energetic manner in which that great artist is said to haveused his mallet and chisel when engaged on works of cut, however, is made to represent several other sculptors besidesthe great Florentine ; it is repeated seven times in the subsequentpages, and on each occasion we find underneath it a different late T. Stothard, was of opinion that wood engraving was bestadapted to express pen-and-ink drawing, and that the wood engravergenerally failed when he attempted more. His illustrations of Eogersspoems, engraved on wood by Clennell and Thompson, are executed in asimilar style to that of the following specimen, though with Certain wood-cuts with the mark A. G., executed towards the con-clusion of the fifteenth century, have been ascribed to an artist namedAlbert Glockenton. Bartsch, however, says that the name of the artistis unknown; and he seems to consider that Sandrart had merelyconjectured that those letters might represent the name Albert Glock-enton. For no better reason the letters I. V. on a tablet, with twopilgrims-staffs crossed between them, which are to be found on severalold chiaro-scuro wood engravings, have been supposed to represent thename, John Ulric Pilgrim. This name appears to be a pure invention ofsome ingenious expounder of monograms, for there is not the slightestevidence, that I am aware of, to show that any artist of this name ever t\\8 WOOD ENGRAVING lived. The chiaro-scuros with this mark were probably executed in thelime of Durer, but none of them contains a date to establish the considers them to have
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