Woodcut, Wood-engraving, and Melief-prints from Metal-plates. 15 



Scolari (Vicenza ; worked about 1580), we do not find it in frequent 

 use until the time of Bewick. 



Many of the artists who have designed woodcuts were not their own 

 cutters (e.g. Diirer and Holbein). The work of cutting away the 

 negative parts of a design can hardly add to the inspiration of a woodcut, 

 and in general it would seem enougii for the artist to have drawn his 

 designs on the wood with the lines as they were to appear in the print, 

 to justify us in regarding him as the author of the woodcut. Here and 

 there the craftsman who merely cuts the design drawn by another on 

 the block is worthy of special remembrance— as with Hans Liitzel- 

 burger, the wonderful cutter of Holbein's Dance of Death. It is, of 

 course, an entirely different matter when the woodcutter or engraver is 

 reproducing the work of another, and translating this work into his own 

 conventions. He is then in the truest sense the author of the print. 



Among the woodcut artists (chiefly designers) at the end of the XVth 

 and earlier half of the XVIth century, we may mention the following : 



Albreeht Diirer. Nuremberg. 1471-1528. The greatest of all 

 designers of woodcuts. 



Hans Sebald Beham. Nuremberg, Frankfort. 1500-50. 



Hans Leonliard Schaufelein. Nuremberg, Augsburg, Nordlingen. 

 About 1480-1539. 



Hans Burgkmair, the elder. Augsburg. 1473-1531. 

 Hans Weiditz. Augsburg, Strassburg. Worked about 1518-36. 

 Albreeht Altdorfer. Eatisbon. About 1480-1538. 

 Wolfgang Huber. Feldkirch, Passau. About 1490-1553. 



Lucas Cranach, the elder. Cronach, Vienna, "Wittenberg, Weimar. 

 1472-1553. 



Hans Baldung (Griin). Strassburg, Freiburg in Breisgau. About 

 1476-1545. 



Johann Wechtlin. Strassburg. d. 1530. 



Nicolas Manuel Deutsch. Berne. About 1484-1530. 



Urs Graf. Solothurn, Zurich, Basle. About 1485-1529. 



Lucas van Leyden. Leyden, Antwerp. 1494-1533. 



Jacob Cornelisz. (van Oostsanen). Amsterdam. About 1480- 

 after 1533. 



Hans Holbein. Augsburg, Basle, Antwerp, England. 1497-1543. 



Hans Liitzelburger. Basle, d. 1526. The cutter of part at least 

 of Holbein's Dance of Death, and Old Testament Illustrations. 



The Master I. B. (with the Bird). North Italy. Worked about 

 1500. His signature is formed by the initials I. B., followed by a little 

 picture of a bird. He has been called Giovanni Battista del Porto, but 

 the identification is very uncertain. 



Jacopo de' Barbari. Venice, Nuremberg, Burgundy. About 1450- 

 before 1516. 



Domenico Campagnola, Padua. Worked about 1511-after 1563, 



