Day three hundred and eight: Looking again at early etchings, this sketch is based on a detail from one by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. As far as historians know he only made one etching around 1520 of a scene with Venus and Mercury. I saw an impression of the print at the fair yesterday, and another impression today in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The original steel plate Burgkmair etched is extant, and is conserved at The British Museum in London.
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