One of the first printmakers to use…

One of the first printmakers to use the drypoint technique is the Master of the Housebook (also known as the Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet because a collection of his prints is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

A German or Flemish engraver, draftsman, and painter, he is named for a book produced around 1475 and containing allegorical pen drawings of the planets, scenes of daily life, pictures of weapons, and battle scenes. (The Housebook Master is also believed to have painted a panel of a “Pair of Lovers” in Gotha and a “Passion Altarpiece,“ executed around 1475 in Freiburg im Breisgau.)