Francesco Sforza, Hurdy-Gurdy Player, Caricature of Two Men’s Heads, Caricature of Two Old Women with a Salami
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The dealer who dismantled the Zobel Album in 1999 cut various sheets with multiple prints in two to sell them separately. In this case, the Rijksmuseum was able to acquire both the top and bottom half of the sheet, which a paper restorer was skilfully able to reattach. The cutting line can still be vaguely discerned.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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