Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Landscape Etchings of the Seventeenth Century Many of the etchings which we shall have toconsider were the work of men who cannot be classed as professional etchers, but rather as painters who etched occasionally. The etchings of men who were great artists but not very familiar with the technique of etching often have a peculiar charm. The crudity and the only partial success, from a technical point of view, are often more than offset by the feeling which the prints give that the artist could see and feel more beauty than he was able to express, so that back of the expression there is a sort of reserve. It is the same thing which gives the charm that every one must feel in the works of the great primitive masters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.