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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]
Liber Studiorum (Latin: Book of Studies [2]) is a collection of prints by J. M. W. Turner. The collected works included seventy-one prints that he worked on and printed from 1807 to 1819. [3] For the production of the prints, Turner created the etchings for the prints, which were worked in mezzotint by his collaborating engravers. [4]
The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB) is an extensive compendium of European old master prints and commentary, published by the Abaris Books imprint of OPAL Publishing Corporation. It is based on the 21 volume Le Peintre-Graveur , by Adam von Bartsch , published in the early nineteenth century, which listed the prints and gave a concise description ...
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 ...
The Analysis of Beauty—Book (1753) Satire on False Perspective (1754) [232*] Crowns, Mitres and Maces—subscription ticket for Four Prints of an Election paintings (1754) prints (1755) [197] Four Prints of an Election / Humours of an Election / An Election Series (1755)—a wry look at election practices [198–201] An Election Entertainment
The Liszt Collection is an international project to preserve a portrayal of history through contemporary engravings, articles and books. The Liszt Collection mainly covers Europe and the United States as well as other locations in the rest of the world, such as Canada, Australia, certain African countries, and South America and Asia.
Boydell also published The Original Work of William Hogarth in 1790 and The Poetical Works of John Milton and The Life of the Poet (i.e., Milton) in 1794. The productivity and profitability of Boydell's firm spurred the British print industry in general. By 1785, annual exports of British prints reached £200,000 while imports fell to £100.