Category: Art
The use and object of this book, and necessary limitations of its service--Monographs for the specialist--The point of view of the individual--The vastness of the Print-collector’s field--Fashions and silly fads--Bartolozzi best in his “Tickets”--The Exaltation of the coloured...
The use and object of this book, and necessary limitations of its service--Monographs for the specialist--The point of view of the individual--The vastness of the Print-collecto...
2. CHAPTER IIThe old-world Etchers, and their due place in the collector’s estimation--Claude--Dumesnil’s list of his etched work--Principal pieces--The money value of Claude’s etchings--Van...
3. CHAPTER IIIRembrandt Catalogues--The extent of Rembrandt’s etched work--The careful buyer: how may he represent Rembrandt not unworthily?--Amongst landscape etchings, the indisputable pre-...
4. CHAPTER IVGeddes, a link between Rembrandt and the French Revival--The Etchings of Millet--Charles Méryon’s work--The best, accomplished in but few years--His “Paris”--The Méryons the Col...
5. CHAPTER VThe Revival in England--Whistler and Haden, Classics--Haden’s first works--The “Agamemnon”--Dry-points--Etchings on Zinc--Prices--Whistler’s French Set--His Thames series--The L...
6. CHAPTER VIEtchers since our great Classics--William Strang--His individuality, and obligations to Legros--That excellent Master--Legros’s nobility and dignity--His observation and imagina...
7. CHAPTER VIIRecent Interest in Martin Schöngauer--A graceful Primitive--Dürer the exponent of the fuller Renaissance--Some principal Dürers--Their prices at the Fisher Sale--German “Little...
8. CHAPTER VIIIEarliest Italian Prints--They interest the Antiquary more than the Collector--Nielli--Baccio Baldini--Mantegna and his restless energy--The calm of Zoan Andrea--Campagnola--The...
9. CHAPTER IXFrench Line-Engravers of the Eighteenth Century render well its original Art--The Prints from Watteau, Lancret, and Pater--Watteau’s Characteristics--Chardin’s Interiors and Stu...
10. CHAPTER XThe range of Turner Prints--His earlier Engravers--His “Liber Studiorum”--Its etchings, proofs, completed mezzotints--Its money value--“Liber” Collectors--The “Southern Coast” S...
11. CHAPTER XIThe healthy appreciation of Mezzotint--Its faculty of conveying the painter’s very touch--Landscape Scenes in Mezzotint--Comparative Rarity of Landscapes--The Constables--Vast v...
12. CHAPTER XIILithography, the convenient invention of Senefelder--Its recent Revival due to the French and Whistler--Legros--Fantin--Whistler’s Lithographs only inferior to his Etchings--C....
13. PART I.: Introductory--General Outlines. PART II.: Trabeated or BeamArchitecture--1. Egypt; 2. Chaldæa, Assyria, and Persia; 3. India; 4. China; 5. Japan; 6. Asia Minor; 7. Greece; 8. Sicily. PART III.: Round-Arched Architecture--1. Etruria and...