DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22421#0363
ETTER IX.
COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS.
299
numerous engravings and woodcuts, of which a large number are
preserved here, and chief of them good impressions.
Here are also more or less numerous specimens of Albert
Durer's contemporaries, Hans Burgkmair of Augsburg, Hans
Baldung Grien of Freyburg in Brisgau ; of the woodcuts from
the drawings by Holbein, and also of those of Lucas Cranach.
The same may be said of the various and generally excellent
engravers of the school of Albert Durer—of George Pentz, Bartel,
and Hans Sebald Beham, all of Nuremberg, the two first of whom
bear traces of Marc Antonio's influence : of Hans von Culmbach
of Franconia; of Hans Schauffelein of Nordlingen in Suabia; of
Albert Altdorfer of Regensburg ; of Heinrich Aldegrever of Zoust
in Westphalia ; of Jacob Bruck of Cologne, and others.
There are also many specimens of Swiss engravers here—of
Urs Graf, Emanuel Deutsch, Jost Amman, of Maurer, Tobias
Stimmer, &c.
Lucas van Leyden, a Netherlandish engraver, born 1491, died
1533, who, with great command of his art, treated sacred subjects
in a fantastic but still realistic manner. His works are numerous
here, and the impressions of unusual vigour. As this master en-
graved with peculiar delicacy, the number of good impressions
are few and rare. The British Museum is indebted for a very
valuable and beautiful set of Lucas van Leyden to Mr. Brooke,
who stripped his own collection in order to complete that of the
Museum—a further proof of that patriotism and respect for public
institutions which occur in no land so frequently as in Great
Britain.
The later Netherlandish engravers of the time of Rubens,
Paulus Pontius, the Bolswaerts, Suyderhof, Cornelius and Johann
Fischer, and others, who have rendered the works of Rubens and
of his chief scholars with the utmost spirit and truth, are well
represented here, especially the two Fischers.
Rembrandt's etchings also, which stand alone in charm of
picturesque beauty, are in great number here, and generally in
fine impressions.
One of the most brilliant departments of the print-room, both
as regards completeness and beauty of impressions, are the etchings
of the Dutch masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, purchased, as
already stated, from Mr. Sheepshanks.
COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS.
299
numerous engravings and woodcuts, of which a large number are
preserved here, and chief of them good impressions.
Here are also more or less numerous specimens of Albert
Durer's contemporaries, Hans Burgkmair of Augsburg, Hans
Baldung Grien of Freyburg in Brisgau ; of the woodcuts from
the drawings by Holbein, and also of those of Lucas Cranach.
The same may be said of the various and generally excellent
engravers of the school of Albert Durer—of George Pentz, Bartel,
and Hans Sebald Beham, all of Nuremberg, the two first of whom
bear traces of Marc Antonio's influence : of Hans von Culmbach
of Franconia; of Hans Schauffelein of Nordlingen in Suabia; of
Albert Altdorfer of Regensburg ; of Heinrich Aldegrever of Zoust
in Westphalia ; of Jacob Bruck of Cologne, and others.
There are also many specimens of Swiss engravers here—of
Urs Graf, Emanuel Deutsch, Jost Amman, of Maurer, Tobias
Stimmer, &c.
Lucas van Leyden, a Netherlandish engraver, born 1491, died
1533, who, with great command of his art, treated sacred subjects
in a fantastic but still realistic manner. His works are numerous
here, and the impressions of unusual vigour. As this master en-
graved with peculiar delicacy, the number of good impressions
are few and rare. The British Museum is indebted for a very
valuable and beautiful set of Lucas van Leyden to Mr. Brooke,
who stripped his own collection in order to complete that of the
Museum—a further proof of that patriotism and respect for public
institutions which occur in no land so frequently as in Great
Britain.
The later Netherlandish engravers of the time of Rubens,
Paulus Pontius, the Bolswaerts, Suyderhof, Cornelius and Johann
Fischer, and others, who have rendered the works of Rubens and
of his chief scholars with the utmost spirit and truth, are well
represented here, especially the two Fischers.
Rembrandt's etchings also, which stand alone in charm of
picturesque beauty, are in great number here, and generally in
fine impressions.
One of the most brilliant departments of the print-room, both
as regards completeness and beauty of impressions, are the etchings
of the Dutch masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, purchased, as
already stated, from Mr. Sheepshanks.