Master of the Playing Cards

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The Master of the Playing Cards was a highly notable German engraver active in South-Western Germany from the 1430s to the 1450s. He is "the first personality in the history of engraving." (Levenson, NGA Catalogue)

[edit] Literature

• Martha Anne Wood Wolff: The Master of the playing cards: an early engraver and his relationship to traditional media, 1979, Dissertation, Yale; UMI (ProQuest), Dissertation Services, 2002