. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . er F. V. B. isan excellent artist, who, among the northern engravers otthis period, must be placed very near in rank to style of engraving is free and sure, but at the sametime careful. His Judgment of Solomon (fig. 21), with itsthrong of figures, is masterly in composition, and its spirited,powerful treatment makes it one of the most noteworthyengravings of the fifteenth century. Fine and earnestin conception are his Annunciation and his Figuresof the Apostles. Israel von Meckenen, an extremely
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . er F. V. B. isan excellent artist, who, among the northern engravers otthis period, must be placed very near in rank to style of engraving is free and sure, but at the sametime careful. His Judgment of Solomon (fig. 21), with itsthrong of figures, is masterly in composition, and its spirited,powerful treatment makes it one of the most noteworthyengravings of the fifteenth century. Fine and earnestin conception are his Annunciation and his Figuresof the Apostles. Israel von Meckenen, an extremely active engraver andgoldsmith, whose work amounts to over 570 plates, appearsto have worked at Bocholt at the end of the fifteenth century, 42 GERMAN ENGRAVING TO 1528 and to have died there in 1503. Israel appears as a mostprolific picture-maker, belonging in style to the Flemishand Netherlandish School, whose types of feature andform he adopts in most of his works without specialrefinement or sympathy. Only when he portrays scenestaken from dailv life does Meckenen show that he. Fig. 22. Israel von Meckenen : The Card-players (detail). possesses real power of observation combined with fresh-ness of humour, as is particularly proved by his various* Scenes of Domestic Life, his comic Family of Foxes,and similar engravings. As a rule, he copies otherartists—Schongauer, the Master E. S., the early work ofDiirer, the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, and soforth ; and apparently most of his engravings are mere ISRAEL VOX MrXKENEN 43 copies. For a series of cn<^ravings of the Life of theVirgin Meckencn has made use of pictures by the elderHolbein, as is proved without doubt by four of the Meckcnen himscll saw the pictures, which arestill preserved at Augsburg, or how their compositionwas communicated to him, remains still unknown. Platesby other masters, for example some by the Master F. V. B.,which came into his hands in a worn condition, he re-
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