Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...selection from the collection of engraved portraits by the great French metal engravers of the seventeenth century is now on exhibition on the east and south walls of the print room in the Fogg Museum...
These prints are fine examples of pure graver work on metal of a period when the more artificial methods of engraving had not come into vogue. They are the works of men who were themselves artists, and many of them are the original designs of the respective engravers. They are strong portraits, full of character, and are comparable in merit to the best portrait art of the Venetian and Flemish masters. Among the names of artists represented are: Drevet, Nauteuil, Duchange, Masson, and Morin...
This valuable collection comprises both metal and wood engravings; and is of the most rare nature, being the original works of great artists, who engraved their own designs...
...Liber Studiorum" of Turner and beside these are placed some valuable etchings by Claude Lorraine. There are some beautiful impressions by Durer from "The Melencolia," "The Great Fortune," and "The Shield and Skull." In addition to these are his portraits of Melanchthon, Piekheimer and Erasmus. These are all metal engravings. Among the wood engravings by Durer are a number from "The Great Passion," and "The Little Passion," which are two of his most valuable series of wood cuts...
...future. How could it be shown that some political troubles would not entirely shatter that league, and bring about the worst commercial crisis ever knownn Another fatal objection to the league is that we are the great silver-producing nation of the world. Europe would have gold, the stable metal, but we should have one the maintenance of whose value depended on the faith kept by the other nations. By its interesting illustrations and several humerous hits of Dobyns' speech did much to enliven the debate which had become rather slow and ponderous...