Handbücher der Königlichen Museen zu Berlin: Der Kupferstich
This German handbook from the Royal Museums of Berlin, written by Friedrich Lippmann and published in 1893 for collectors and art students, surveys copperplate engraving with reproductions of prints by Rembrandt, Israhel van Meckenem and other early masters. The pictures are black-and-white reproductions of engravings and etchings, showing dense crosshatching, fine line modelling of drapery and faces, and figures set against open backgrounds, offering a designer examples of hatching density, contour rhythm and tonal build-up using only line.
