Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Origin and Early History of Engraving, Upon Copper and in Wood, Vol. 2: With an Account of Engravers and Their Works, From the Invention of Chalcography by Maso Finiguerra, to the Time of Marc' Antonio Raimondi
In addition to such arguments, I must observe, with Lanzi, that it is highly improbable that Mantegna should first have applied himself to the practice of so laborious an art as engraving, at the advanced age of sixty; and that, employed, as he constantly was, in great works of painting, it is not to be believed that he should have found time, during the last sixteen years of his life, to execute so considerable a number of large and finished engravings as we possess by his hand.
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