A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . wn is in Basle. Then there are some five etchingsby Durer, which we mentioned in the last chapter, dating between DUrers15 15 and 15 18. ^\\Q. Gethset7iane and the Ca?i/ion (Fig. 42) are *^^^§^-most powerful works, but Diirer was probably ill content with thecoarseness of line attainable on iron, which remained for a consider- 1 By Jehan le Begue, MS. (written about 1431) Bibl. Nat., Paris (see Mrs,Merrifield, Original Treatises on the Arts of Pa
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . wn is in Basle. Then there are some five etchingsby Durer, which we mentioned in the last chapter, dating between DUrers15 15 and 15 18. ^\\Q. Gethset7iane and the Ca?i/ion (Fig. 42) are *^^^§^-most powerful works, but Diirer was probably ill content with thecoarseness of line attainable on iron, which remained for a consider- 1 By Jehan le Begue, MS. (written about 1431) Bibl. Nat., Paris (see Mrs,Merrifield, Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, London, 1849, vol. i. p. 76).For the whole subject consult in particular E. Harzen, Archiv v. 119, and S. , Zeitschrift, 2nd ser. ix. 30. 10; io6 ETCHING IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY able time the common material for etching in Germany. The useof iron may have been determined rather by the conventions of anart which was chiefly applied in the armourers workshop, than fromany lack of knowledge of a suitable mordant for copper. TheH. S. Beham. etched plates of Diirers follower, Hans Sebald Beham, amount Altdorfer and landscape Fig. 42.—Albrecht Dtirer. The Cannon. to less than twenty in all, and, as in the case of Diirer, are the occa-sional work of an artist chiefly devoted to line-engraving.^ Albrecht Altdorfer, whose memorial etching of the Regens-burg Synagogue destroyed by fire in 1519 gives some indicationof the date of his work in this medium, was a more successfuland prolific etcher than Beham, and is of considerable importanceas one of the earliest interpreters of landscape for its own sake. The greater part are dated in 1519 and 1520, almost immediately afterDurers attempts ( St. Jerome writing, Pauh 63, Virgiti with tiie Apple, P. 20,Jhe Standard-bearer, P. 205). The date 1540 occurs on another ( Woman and Fool,V. 149), and about si.\ are undated. ALTDORFER—HIRSCHVOGEL—LAUTENSACK 107 His style in landscape etching is simply the transf
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