# Prints and their makers: essays on engravers and etchers old and modern

Author: Carrington, Fitz Roy, 1869-1954 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68720

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## Summary

The life of Piranesi was eminently that of a man of genius, characterized by all the peculiarities ascribable to genius, perhaps as failures of human nature, but also distinguished by that which imparts to its possessor an imperishable renown. Those peculiarities are worthy of notice, as they bear so much on the character of his work; but his works, wonderful as they are in point of execution, are less to be admired for this than for the interest of the subjects he chose, _and that which he imparted to them_. In an age of frivolities, he boldly and single-handed dared to strike out for himself a new road to fame; and in dedicating his talents to the recording and illustrating from ancient...

## Chapters

- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/6/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/prints-and-their-makers-essays-on-engravers-and-etchers-old-and-32965055/chapters/4/index.md)