The Knight and Lansquenet

c. 1512 Sheet: 27 x 18 cm (10 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.241

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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