Author: MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET [also called: MASTER OF THE HOUSEBOOK]. Bossert, Helmuth Th. & Willy F. Storck. (eds).
Title: Das mittelalterliche Hausbuch. Nach dem Originale im Besitze des Fürsten von Waldburg-Wolfegg-Waldsee. Im Auftrag des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft.
Description: Leipzig, E. A. Seemann, 1912. [5],71,41 pp. 74 b./w. collotype plts. H.vellum, gilt lettered on spine. 4to. (Jahresgabe des Deutschen Vereins fu¨r Kunstwissenschaft. 1912). Master of the Housebook and Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet are two names used for an engraver and painter working in South Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century. He is apparently the first artist to use drypoint, a form of engraving, for all of his prints (other than woodcuts he may have designed). The first name derives from his book of drawings with watercolour, called the Housebook, which belonged to the German noble family of Waldburg-Wolfegg. The majority of his surviving prints are in the print room at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, hence his second name. Most, but not all, art historians still agree that the Housebook and the prints are by the same artist. [Source: Wikipedia].

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