Excerpt from The Paintings and Drawings of Albrecht Durer IN a former number of the Portfolio (november 1894) an attempt was made to lay before the reader a short sketch of the life of Albrecht Diirer of Nuremberg, and to give a descriptive, and to some extent explanatory, account of his engravings on copper and on wood. The limits of space contained in the volumes of this series made it necessary to confine the contents of the number in question to the engraved work of Albrecht Diirer, and to pass over, with little more than a mere allusion, that very large and important portion of his life-work which has survived to posterity in his paintings and drawings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.