| Description |
x, 375 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Note |
The essays are chiefly about prints and books in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
| Contents |
A museum department of prints -- Breydenbach's itinerary -- Two illustrated editions of the Meditations of Saint Bonaventura -- Pigouchet's Horae of 1948 -- Hans Weiditz -- Geofroy Tory -- Hans Holbein's "Dance of death" -- Jean Cousin's Book of perspective -- The 1838 Paul et Virginie -- "The pleasures of memory": a study in snobbery -- Woodcuts by Albert Dürer -- Illustrated books -- Baillie Collection of Book-plates -- Van Dyck and Rembrandt in the print room -- Three notes apropos of an etching by Rembrandt -- Etchings by Canaletto -- Goya's "Caprices" -- Legros, Lepère, and Zorn -- A note on some Old English architectural prints -- Prints of English landscapes -- An early book on etching -- Prefatory note for an exhibition of nineteenth-century etchings and engravings -- Master E.S. of 1467 -- Mantegna's "Risen Christ" -- "Literary" pictures -- A collection of prints by Albert Dürer -- A note on Cranach and Altdorfer -- An engraved portrait by Lucas of Leyden -- Some accessions -- French prints and drawings of the last hundred years -- French black and white in the last half-century -- Masterpieces of lithography -- French lithographs -- Daumier as a lithographer -- Daumier -a man of his time -- "Ornament" and the sources of design in the decorative arts -- Ogden Codman Collection -- Jean Pillement: ornemaniste -- Decoration from Louis XV to our day -- Notes on an exhibition of ornament -- A further note on ornament -- Character in ornament -- Ostaus's Vera Perfettione -- Etchings -- Engravings -- Illustrated books and relief prints. |
| Subject |
Engraving.
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Engraving. |
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Illustrated books.
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Wood-engraving.
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Wood-engraving. |
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Decoration and ornament.
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Decoration and ornament. |
| Added Author |
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957. DLC
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Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
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