Chapter I: Front Matter

Collector Series

FINE PRINTS

The Collector Series

FINE
PRINTS

BY
FREDERICK
WEDMORE

EDINBURGH
JOHN GRANT
1905

AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS
ENGLISH WATER-COLOURS
STAMPS
TAPESTRY LACE AND EMBROIDERY
MINIATURES
COINS
ENGLISH
BOOK PLATES
VIOLINS
PICTURES
PORCELAIN
OLD BIBLES
ANCIENT GLASS
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FINE PRINTS

BY
FREDERICK WEDMORE
HONORARY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER-ETCHERS

_New and Enlarged Edition, with Fifteen Illustrations_

Edinburgh
JOHN GRANT
1905

PREFATORY NOTE FOR THE EDITION OF 1905

In this New Edition of a book which is supposed to have played some little part in increasing the taste for Print Collecting here in England, the few alterations I have made, in the text, are chiefly verbal ones. I did not want to interfere, more than was absolutely needful, with a piece of writing that, done at one time, possessed, probably, along with all its faults and its deficiencies, some unity.

But it seemed good that certain additions, hardly outside the lines on which the book had been planned--and which the passing of years, more than anything else, had suggested--should be made, and grouped together in a short, separate Chapter--“Postscript: 1905.” That has been accomplished. And this “Postscript” deals very briefly with a few artists, new or not noticed before--deals too with certain changes in money value, as to which no indication can be more than approximate.

It has been necessary to extend, to a small extent, the Bibliography.

And it has been convenient to suppress certain of the Illustrations that appeared in the Original Edition, and to supply others in the place of them.

F. W.

LONDON: _September, 1905_.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

PREFATORY NOTE FOR THE EDITION OF 1905 3

INTRODUCTION 9

I. THE TASK OF THE COLLECTOR 23

II. CLAUDE, VANDYKE, OSTADE, HOLLAR 35

III. REMBRANDT 48

IV. FRENCH REVIVAL OF ETCHING 66

V. WHISTLER AND HADEN 100

VI. LATER ENGLISH ETCHERS 122

VII. DÜRER: THE “LITTLE MASTERS” 139

VIII. ITALIAN LINE ENGRAVERS 158

IX. FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRINTS 169

X. TURNER PRINTS 188

XI. MEZZOTINTS 209

XII. LITHOGRAPHS 221