Chats On Old Prints: Y Arthur Hayden... With 110 Illustrations And a ...
Chats On Old Prints: Y Arthur Hayden... With 110 Illustrations And a ...
Arthur Hayden
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The illustratioo from the set of five ovals entitled The Five Deaths^ repre- senting scenes during the plague in Florence, is from a print which cost the writer a shilling. (Facing p. 62.) Of Jacques Callot, the French engraver (1592- 163s), there are fourteen hundred known plates, and he offers a field to the young collector. His subjects are varied in character, he etches festivals and tourna- ments and jousts; he is at home with sieges and military exercises. He faithfully depicts the Miseri...es of War. His Caprices and his Fantasies are exuberant with picturesque joyousness and airy treatment. His figures of ladies and gallants in costume are as accurate as Hollar, but their environment is Italy. There is a touch of humour in much of his work that is delightfully piquant In some of his etchings, in addition to the use of the needle scratched through hard varnish, a method of his own invention, he worked on the plate with a graver, as is exhibited in the lozenge-work in the shadows in the illustration of St.
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