# MASTER E.S. [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Profession: graphic artist - School: German ## Biography German engraver working in the mid-15th century, named after the monogram on eighteen of his surviving prints. He is sometimes called the Master of 1466 from the date on one of his engravings. He was the most prolific and influential of the early German engravers, working on profane and fantastic subjects as well as religious images and producing more than 300 known prints. Earlier engravers had been content with pure outline, but E. S. managed to produce rich tonal effects by the ingenious use of hatching, and cross-hatching. ## Related artworks - [Christ as Saviour]() - [Knight Playing Card]() - [Letter G from the Fantastic Alphabet]() - [Letter N from the Fantastic Alphabet]() - [Man of Sorrows between Four Angels]() - [The Large Virgin of Einsiedeln]() - [The Small Virgin of Einsiedeln]() - [The Smallest Virgin of Einsiedeln]() - [Virgin and Child with Sts Barbara and Dorothea]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()