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Landscape with the Town on a River and the Cottage between Trees
Landscape with the Town on a River and the Cottage between Trees
1551
Hanns Lautensack
(German, 1524–1566)
Etching
Image: 17 x 23 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 17 x 23 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1938.386
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The vertical break in the center of this composition indicates where two different plates were used and then printed together on the same sheet of paper.
Description
In this work, Hanns Lautensack used two
etching plates and printed them side by side
on one sheet of paper, though the reason
for this is not clear. The print also displays
a printing error, namely the presence of
“foul biting,” small dots in the sky that
indicate failure of the acid-resistant ground.
Such mistakes, or experimentations, were
not unusual in the early decades of the
development of the etching medium, when
artists were still refining their formulas and
procedures. Happily, perhaps, the errors abide
well with the naturalistic landscape scene.
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