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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.
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]
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 ...
Self-portrait, 1785. Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch (17 August 1757 – 21 August 1821) was an Austrian scholar and artist. His catalogue of old master prints, Le Peintre Graveur is the foundation of print history, and he was himself a printmaker practicing engraving and etching.
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]
Jan Luiken made the engravings for the popular "sailor's bible" called "Lusthof des Gemoeds", by Jan Philipsz Schabaalje, 1714 Jan Luyken's print of the peat boat used as a ruse by the Dutch to gain possession of Breda from the Spanish in 1590. He was born and died in Amsterdam, where he learned engraving from his father Kaspar Luyken. [1]