Dutch Etchers of the Seventeenth Century

Synopsis

When, towards the close of the last century, Adam Bartsch began that monument of his industry and patience, Le Peintre Graveur, he devoted the first volumes of his twenty-one, not to the early engravers of Germany or Italy, but to the Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century. These were, in fact, the idols of the amateur of that day; and the indiscriminate praises which Bartsch lavishes on mediocre artists, like Waterloo or Le Ducq, sufficiently show how uncontested was their rank, and how fashionable their reputation.

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