The set of the bears. Untitled plate 5, Marcus de Bye, etcher, 1664, Netherlands, etching, Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c. 1520–c. 1590) was a Flemish printmaker and painter associated with the English court of the mid-16th century and mainly remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop's Fables. He was a keen innovator and experimented with etching at a time when woodcut and increasingly engraving were dominant techniques. For example, his 1562 bird's-eye view of Bruges was etched on no fewer than 10 different plates, and the resulting map measures 1m x

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