Word: copper
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...wealth of copper-golden hair...
...other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper-plate engraving his occupation...
...some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs. There are also impressions of all the finest of Raphael's drawings, done on copper by Raimondi, and under Raphael's own supervision...