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Old man in meditation, leaning on a book: About 1645 B219: 1: Cottages and farm buildings with a man sketching: About 1645 B228: 1: Cottages beside a canal: About 1645 B170: 1: Beggar woman leaning on a stick: 1646 B186: 5 ‘Ledikant’ or ‘Lit à la française’ 1646 B193: 2: Nude man seated before a curtain: 1646 B196: 2: Nude man seated ...
Rembrandt's teachers in Leiden were Jacob van Swanenburgh [note 1] (from 1621 to 1623, [5] with whom he learned pen drawing [6]) and Joris van Schooten. [note 2] [7]However, his six-month stay in Amsterdam in 1624, with Pieter Lastman and Jan Pynasc, was decisive in his training: Rembrandt learned pencil drawing, the principles of composition, and working from nature. [6]
"Georgia Historic Books" – via Digital Library of Georgia. Books related to Georgia's history and culture (Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.) Scott Thompson (ed.). "Georgia Authors". Gecko's Georgia. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. "Topics: Media: Magazines and Journals", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
The resulting Georgia Government Publications database contains born-digital publications and scanned print documents produced by Georgia state agencies. The GGP provides a comprehensive repository of state publications 1994 to the present, and project participants are actively scanning documents printed before 1994 to provide researchers with ...
Other terms often used for printed engravings are copper engraving, copper-plate engraving or line engraving. Steel engraving is the same technique, on steel or steel-faced plates, and was mostly used for banknotes, illustrations for books, magazines and reproductive prints, letterheads and similar uses from about 1790 to the early 20th century, when the technique became less popular, except ...
Old master print is a term that at this period includes popular prints, but later is restricted to more expensive and purely artistic prints. Although early information as to prices is almost non-existent, it is clear from a number of sources that small woodcuts were affordable by at least the urban working-class, and much of the peasant class ...
A 1921 auction catalog documents the offering of a BEP specimen book which contained about 145 engravings ("about 100 portraits and 45 plates and views"). [7] In 2001 the numismatic community knew of 47 BEP specimen books and suspected the existence of 10 to 15 more. [1] A WorldCat search of library records found eight BEP specimen books. [8]
Mantegna's workshop produced a number of engravings copying his Triumph of Caesar (now Hampton Court Palace), or drawings for it, which were perhaps the first prints intended to be understood as depicting paintings—called reproductive prints. With an increasing pace of innovation in art, and of a critical interest among a non-professional ...