Landscape with Wooded Bluffs and a Watermill
16th century
This image was produced using mixture of drawing and printing techniques. Certain parts of this drawing derive directly from a woodcut print of Saint Jerome in the Wilderness that was designed by Titian. A print made from that woodcut was cut up while still wet, and faint impressions were made from those parts on this sheet. The bank of trees and some of the rocky foreground here were made this way, and the artist then sketched in the remaining landscape and watermill with his pen. There was a high market demand for landscape drawings in Venice during the period that this was produced. It is not known, however, exactly why composite prints or drawings such as this one were made.
