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MANTEGNA. 179
like a stamp, and the impression taken with a com-
mon printing-press.
When Andrea Mantegna made his first essays in
engraving on copper, he does not seem to have used
a press or roller; perhaps he was unacquainted with
that implement. At all events the early impressions
of his plates have evidently been taken by merely
laying the paper on the copper-plate, and then
rubbing it over with the hand; and they are very
faint and spiritless compared with the later impres-
sions taken with a press.
like a stamp, and the impression taken with a com-
mon printing-press.
When Andrea Mantegna made his first essays in
engraving on copper, he does not seem to have used
a press or roller; perhaps he was unacquainted with
that implement. At all events the early impressions
of his plates have evidently been taken by merely
laying the paper on the copper-plate, and then
rubbing it over with the hand; and they are very
faint and spiritless compared with the later impres-
sions taken with a press.