02 — ARTIST
MASTER E.S.
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.
WORKS IN ARCHIVE
9 RECORDS
- Christ as Saviour 1467
- Knight Playing Card 1450
- Letter G from the Fantastic Alphabet 1465
- Letter N from the Fantastic Alphabet 1465
- Man of Sorrows between Four Angels 1460
- The Large Virgin of Einsiedeln 1466
- The Small Virgin of Einsiedeln 1466
- The Smallest Virgin of Einsiedeln 1466
- Virgin and Child with Sts Barbara and Dorothea 1459
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