A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . 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
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . 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 the hand. It is also never held vertically, as it appears in thehand of the Formschneider. It is, however, certain, from other wood-cuts, which will be subsequently noticed, that the wood engraversof that period were accustomed to use a tool with a handle roundedat the top, similar to the graver used in the present day.—Theverses descriptive of the annexed cut are translated from I am a wood-engraver all designs on blocks of woodI with my graver cut so neat,Tliat when theyre printed on a sheetOf paper white, you plainly viewThe very forms the artist drew :His dra\ving, whether coarse or fine,Is tndy copied line for line. Jost Amman died in 1591, and from the time of his settling atNuremberg to that of his decease he seems to have been chieflyemployed in making designs on wood for the booksellers of Nurem-berg and Frankfort. He also furnished designs for goldsmiths ; and * See the mark C. S. at page 412 FUKTHEE PEOGRESS AND DECLINE OF it is said that he excelled as a painter on glass. The works whichafford the best specimens of his talents as a designer on wood arethose illustrative of the costume of the period, first published between1580 and 1585 by S. Feyerabend at Frankfort. One of those workscontains the costumes of men of all ranks, except the clergy, inter-spersed with the armorial
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