Fine Prints
Reading edition
By Frederick Wedmore
With 12 Plates. 7s. 6d. net
Illustrations by Examples after Mantegna, Marc Antonio, Schöngauer,
Dürer, Beham, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Watteau,
Chardin, Reynolds, and Turner.
Contents: Introduction—The Task of the Collector—Claude, Vandyke, Ostade, Hollar—Rembrandt (Illustrations)—French Revival of Etching (Illustrations)—Whistler and Haden—Later English Etchers—Dürer: The “Little Masters” (Illustrations)—Italian Line Engravers (Illustrations)—French Eighteenth Century Prints (Illustrations)—Turner Prints (Illustrations)—Mezzotints (Illustrations)—Lithographs—Appendix: Certain Woodcuts—Postscript—Bibliography—Index.
“The ‘collector of moderate means,’ for whose special behoof the volumes of the Collector Series are designed, will take pleasure and find profit in the admirable guide to Fine Prints which Mr Frederick Wedmore has written for Mr Redway. It maps out the ground for him who would go forth on the delightful quest of rare and beautiful etchings, line engravings, and mezzotints; and at every turn it gives him valuable hints and directions.”—Scotsman.
“It gives a bird’s-eye view of a large and important subject for the benefit of the man of taste. Mr Wedmore is a well-known art critic, and altogether a competent hand for the undertaking. He discusses the work of the masters of engraving, ancient and modern, including even the great lithographers.... A capital index completes a model volume of its kind. The work contains many beautiful reproductions from the best engravings of some of the best men, rendered with admirable fidelity in the different styles of line, mezzotint, and etching.”—Daily News.
The Magazine of Art says:—“Mr Wedmore is one of the few professional writers in England with a truly refined and appreciative knowledge of prints—possessing that more eclectic sense proper for the cult. As a guide he may be confidently commended to the reader, who will not fail to admire the delicacy and tact with which Mr Wedmore handles the necessarily commercial side of the subject. He deals adequately with the great Dutch and French periods of etching, the recent revival of that art in England, our great period of mezzotint, and line engraving in Italy, as well as the prints of Turner, lithographs of the present day, and famous woodcuts of the past.”
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