CONTENTS
| I. | How Prints are Made | [1] |
| Introductory, 1. Bank note and magazine illustration, 3. Three main divisions of processes. Woodcut, 4. Wood-engraving, 5. Engraving, 6. Dry-point, mezzotint, 8. Etching, 9. Lithography, 10. The printing presses used, 11. | ||
| II. | The Origin of Woodcut | [12] |
| Not a sudden invention, 12. Utilitarian origin, 14. The past reviewed, 15. The panel picture and its cheap substitute, 18. Saints’ pictures, 20. Playing cards, 21. Increasing demand for pictures, 24. Block-books, movable type, 26. Book illustration in Germany and Italy, 28. Examples of early woodcuts: German, 30, Italian, 32. | ||
| III. | The Early Days of Engraving | [35] |
| Intaglio printing, the goldsmith’s niello, 35. Engraving in Germany and Italy, attitude and results, 37. Anonymous masters, 40. Schongauer, 41. Early Italian examples, 44. Pollajuolo, Mantegna, 46. Giulio Campagnola, 47. | ||
| IV. | Italy | [49] |
| The professional engraver, 49. Marcantonio Raimondi, 50. The publisher, 51. Revival; Carracci, 52. Painter-etchers, 53. Later developments; Canaletto, 55. The classical engravers, 55. Chiaroscuro woodcut, 56. | ||
| V. | Germany | [59] |
| Culmination, Dürer, 60. Lucas van Leyden, 65. Italian influence, 66. Little masters, 67. Woodcut: Cranach, Holbein, 69. The two masters, Dürer and Holbein, 70. Decline, 71. | ||
| VI. | The Netherlands | [73] |
| History. Flemish and Dutch art, 73. Engraver families, commerce in Saints’ pictures, 75. Virtuosi of the graver, Goltzius, 76. Rubens and his engravers, 77. Van Dyck, 78. Cornel Visscher, 79. Rembrandt, 80. Ostade, 84. Ruysdael. Landscape and animal etchers, 85. Italian influence, decline, 86. | ||
| VII. | France | [87] |
| Woodcut illustrations, 87. Engraving, Jean Duvet, 89. The Fontainebleau school, 90. Callot, Claude Lorrain, 91. Portrait engraving, 93. Mellan, 94. Morin, 95. Nanteuil, 96. Edelinck and others, 97. New processes, 100. Color-prints, book ornamentation, 101. Classical engraving, Wille, 104. Italian preëminence, 105. Etchers, vignettists, 105. Spain: Goya, 107. | ||
| VIII. | England | [109] |
| Early days, Hollar. English engravers, 109. Hogarth, 110. Bartolozzi, 110. Mezzotint engravers, 111. Earlom, 113. Wood-engraving: Bewick, 114. | ||
| IX. | The United States | [116] |
| Colonial times; Pelham, Peale, 116. Stipple; book illustration, 117. Wood-engraving, the tone engravers, 118. Etching, 120. | ||
| X. | The Nineteenth Century | [121] |
| Individual expression, 121. Blake, 122. Chodowiecki, 123. A new era, Constable, Delacroix and others, 124. Turner, 126. Wood-engraving and lithography, 127. Menzel; Gavarni, Daumier, 129. Raffet, 130. Revival of etching, 130. Jacque, Millet, and others, 131. Etching versus Engraving, 131. Haden, Whistler, 132. Meryon, 133. Gaillard, 134. Exacting demands on the graphic arts; Zorn, Klinger, 135. Conclusion, 136. | ||
| Books recommended for study of prints, 138. |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Title-page to Herodotus. Anonymous | [Title-page] |
| St. Margaret of Hungary. Anonymous | [30] |
| Page from Ars Memorandi. Anonymous | [30] |
| Page from Nuremberg Chronicle. Anonymous | [30] |
| Virgin and Child with St. John. Anonymous | [32] |
| Page from Hypnerotomachia. Anonymous | [32] |
| Page from Morgante Maggiore. Anonymous | [32] |
| Madonna of Einsiedeln. Anon. Master E. S. | [40] |
| Death of the Virgin. Martin Schongauer | [42] |
| Sibilla Samia. Anonymous | [44] |
| Clio, from the so-called Tarocchi. Anonymous | [44] |
| Battle of Nude Men. Antonio Pollajuolo | [46] |
| Christ between Two Saints. Andrea Mantegna | [46] |
| St. John the Baptist. Giulio Campagnola | [46] |
| Death of Dido. Marcantonio Raimondi | [50] |
| Adam and Eve. Marcantonio Raimondi | [50] |
| Titian. Agostino Carracci | [52] |
| Madonna and Child. Federigo Barocci | [54] |
| Torre di Malghera. Antonio Canale | [56] |
| Diogenes. Ugo da Carpi | [56] |
| Four Horsemen, Apocalypse. Albrecht Dürer | [60] |
| Arms with the Skull. Albrecht Dürer | [62] |
| Rest in Egypt. Albrecht Dürer | [62] |
| St. Jerome in his Study. Albrecht Dürer | [64] |
| Cardinal Albrecht. Albrecht Dürer | [64] |
| Adoration of the Magi. Lucas van Leyden | [66] |
| Tournament. Lucas Cranach | [68] |
| Johannes Zurenus. Hendrik Goltzius | [74] |
| Rubens. Paul Pontius | [76] |
| Jan Brueghel. Anthony van Dyck | [78] |
| Gellius de Bouma. Cornel Visscher | [78] |
| Adoration of the Shepherds. Rembrandt | [80] |
| The Three Trees. Rembrandt | [80] |
| Janus Lutma. Rembrandt | [82] |
| Tobit Blind. Rembrandt | [82] |
| The Spinner. Adriaen van Ostade | [84] |
| The Travelers. Jacob Ruysdael | [84] |
| The Diamond. Nicolaes Berghem | [86] |
| Tour de Nesle. Jacques Callot | [90] |
| Le Bouvier. Claude Lorrain | [92] |
| Duc de Guise. Claude Mellan | [94] |
| Antoine Vitré. Jean Morin | [94] |
| Pompone de Bellièvre. Robert Nanteuil | [96] |
| Philippe de Champaigne. Gérard Edelinck | [96] |
| Bossuet. Pierre Imbert Drevet | [98] |
| Champs Élysées. Nicolas Henri Tardieu | [100] |
| Instruction Paternelle. Georg Wille | [104] |
| Plate from the Caprichos. Francisco Goya | [106] |
| Catharine of Braganza. William Faithorne | [110] |
| The Hon. Miss Bingham. Francesco Bartolozzi | [110] |
| Mrs. Carnac. John Raphael Smith | [112] |
| Flower and Fruit Piece. Richard Earlom | [114] |
| Thomas Jefferson. David Edwin | [116] |
| Chief Justice Marshall. Asher Brown Durand | [118] |
| Still-life with the Peacock. William J. Linton | [118] |
| Plate from the Book of Job. William Blake | [122] |
| Home of a Painter. Daniel Chodowiecki | [124] |
| Inverary Pier. J. M. W. Turner | [126] |
| Æsacus and Hesperie. J. M. W. Turner | [126] |
| Christ Disputing with Doctors. A. v. Menzel | [128] |
| Cartoon on Louis Philippe. Honoré Daumier | [128] |
| Midnight Review. Auguste Raffet | [130] |
| Woman Churning. Jean François Millet | [130] |
| Sunset in Ireland. Sir Seymour Haden | [132] |
| The Doorway. Venice. James McN. Whistler | [132] |
| Le Petit Pont. Charles Meryon | [132] |
| Dom Prosper Guéranger. Ferdinand Gaillard | [134] |
| Girl Bathing. Anders Zorn | [134] |
| Expulsion from Paradise. Max Klinger | [134] |