A Treasury of the World's Great Prints: from Durer to Chagall; a collection of the best-known woodcuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs by twenty-three great artists / Stephen Longstreet

A Treasury of the World's Great Prints: from Durer to Chagall; a collection of the best-known woodcuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs by twenty-three great artists / Stephen Longstreet

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REF.AM.2039
333 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
1961
Stephen Longstreet
Simon & Schuster
graphic arts, prints
First printing. Selected and presented by Stephen Longstreet. The book brings together a superb collection spanning four centuries of etchings, engravings, lithographs and woodcuts. Altogether there are 232 prints, twenty-eight in full color and many of them reproduced from rare originals. The twenty-three artists represented include: Albrecht Dürer (German school 1471-1528) -- Pieter Brueghel (Flemish 1525 -1569) -- Jacques Callot (French 1592-1635) -- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Dutch 1606-1669) -- William Hogarth (English 1697-1764) -- Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian 1720-1778) -- Francisco José De Goya y Lucientes (Spanish 1746-1828) -- Thomas Rowlandson (English 1756-1827) -- James Gillray (English 1757-1815) -- William Blake (English 1757-1827) -- Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese 1760-1849) -- Toshusai Sharaku (Japanese active circa 1794) -- Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese 1797-1858) -- Honoré Daumier (French 1808-1879) -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American 1834-1903) -- Winslow Homer (American 1836-1910) -- Paul Gauguin (French 1848-1903) -- Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944) -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1864-1901) -- Henri Matisse (French 1869-1954) -- Georges Rouault (French 1871-1958) -- Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881- present) -- Marc Chagall (Russian 1887- present).