Excerpt from Fifth Loan Exhibition: Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Pen and Ink, Pencil, and Wash Drawings and of Etchings and Engravings on Wood, Copper and Steel
From the middle Of the fifteenth century the art Of engraving made rapid progress. The first Of the important German engravers whose names have survived was martin schongauer, who is represented in this collection by his Virgin and Father Enthroned (n O. According to Mr. Hind, Of the British Museum, the course of artistic tradition passed from The Master of the Playing Cards (1446) through a master probably of Strassburg, whose initials were E. S., and in whose workshop it is conjectured schongauer learned his art.
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