MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET. TWO LOVERS
Size of the original engraving, 6½ × 4⅛ inches
In the Ducal Collection, Coburg
ENGRAVERS
AND
ETCHERS
SIX LECTURES DELIVERED ON THE SCAMMON FOUNDATION
AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, MARCH 1916
BY
FITZROY CARRINGTON, M. A.
CURATOR OF PRINTS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS,
BOSTON; LECTURER ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES
OF ENGRAVING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY; EDITOR OF
“THE PRINT-COLLECTOR’S QUARTERLY”
WITH 133 ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
1917
COPYRIGHT 1917
THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY
DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY
THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY
WASHINGTON BALTIMORE
NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA
TO THOSE
WHO HELPED ME MAKE THIS BOOK
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
NOTE
The lectures presented in this volume comprisethe twelfth series delivered at the Art Instituteof Chicago on the Scammon Foundation.The Scammon Lectureship is established onan ample basis by bequest of Mrs. MariaSheldon Scammon, who died in 1901. Thewill prescribes that these lectures shall be uponthe history, theory, and practice of the FineArts (meaning thereby the graphic and plasticarts), by persons of distinction or authorityon the subject on which they lecture, suchlectures to be primarily for the benefit of thestudents of the Art Institute, and secondarilyfor members and other persons. The lecturesare known as “The Scammon Lectures.”
CONTENTS
PAGE | |
LECTURE I | |
German Engraving: From the Beginnings to Martin Schongauer | 13 |
LECTURE II | |
Italian Engraving: The Florentines | 51 |
LECTURE III | |
German Engraving: The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet and Albrecht Dürer | 95 |
LECTURE IV | |
Italian Engraving: Mantegna to Marcantonio Raimondi | 139 |
LECTURE V | |
Some Masters of Portraiture |