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Hans Wechtlin

The Knight and Lansquenet

c. 1512
chiaroscuro woodcut (in blue and black)

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By 1509 color prints were successfully produced by printing the line block in black but using a second block to print the background color. Unprinted areas of white paper formed the highlights. Wechtlin’s The Knight and Lansquenet is a beautiful example of this technique.

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