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durer’s literary remains.
[CHAP.
3 Dec.
7 Dec.
8 Dec.
Stephan Capelle1 has given me a cedarwood rosary, for which I
promised to take, and have taken his portrait. I bought some furnace-
brown and a pair of snuffers for 4 st. I paid 3 st. for paper. I made
a pen-and-ink portrait in his book of Felix kneeling2. He gave me 100
oysters. I gave Herr Lazarus (Ravensburger), the great man, an en-
graved Jerome and the three Large Books. Rodrigo gave me strong wine
and oysters. I bought some black chalk for 7 white pf. I have had as
guests at dinner Tomasin, Gerhard, Tomasin’s daughter, her husband,
the glass-painter Hennik, Jobst and his wife, and Felix. It cost 2 fl.
Tomasin gave me 4 ells of grey damask for a doublet. I have again
changed 1 Philips fl. for expenses.
The visit to Zeeland (3—14 Dec. 1520).
On St Barbara’s eve I rode away from Antwerp to Bergen op Zoom,
I paid 12 st. for the horse and spent 1 fl. 6 st. there. At Bergen I
bought my wife a thin Netherlandish cloth for the head3; it cost 1 fl.
7 st. Further 6 st. for three pair of shoes, 1 st. for a pair of spectacles,
also 6 st. for an ivory button. I gave 2 st. for a trinkgeld. I took the
portraits in charcoal of Jan de Has, his wife, and his two daughters, and
I drew the maid and the old woman with the metal-point in my sketch-
book4. I saw the von Bergen house, it is very large and beautifully
built. Bergen is a pleasant place in summer and two great fairs are held
there in the year5.
On our Lady’s eve I started with my companions for Zeeland and
Sebastian Imhof6 lent me 5 fl. The first night we lay at anchor in the
sea; it was very cold and we had neither food nor drink. On Saturday
we came to Goes, and there I drew a girl in her costume7. Thence we
went to Arnemuiden and I paid 15 st. for expenses. We passed by a
sunken place, and saw the tops of the roofs standing up out of the water.
And we went by the little island Wolfersdyk and past the little town
Kortgene (?) on another island lying near. Zeeland has seven islands,
and Arnemuiden, where I spent the night, is the largest.
From thence I went to Middelburg. There, in the Abbey, is a
great picture painted by Jan de Mabuse—not so good in the modelling
Jlauptstreichen) as in the colouring. I went next to the Veere, where
lie ships from all lands; it is a very fine little town.
1 A goldsmith who worked for the Archduchess Margaret.
2 Such a drawing is one of the two already referred to as in the Albertina
Collection.
3 In the Berlin Print-room is a portrait drawn by Diirer and thus inscribed,
“ This likeness Albrecht Diirer made of his wife at Antwerp in a Netherlandish
costume in the year 1521, when they had had each other in marriage 27 years.”
4 This leaf is in the Due d’Aumale’s collection. It is inscribed by Diirer zw
pergen feuertag.
5 A drawing of Bergen from Diirer’s sketch-book is in the Due d’Aumale’s
Collection.
6 The same that is mentioned in the Venice letters.
7 In the Due d’Aumale’s Collection, inscribed zu der gus in selant.
durer’s literary remains.
[CHAP.
3 Dec.
7 Dec.
8 Dec.
Stephan Capelle1 has given me a cedarwood rosary, for which I
promised to take, and have taken his portrait. I bought some furnace-
brown and a pair of snuffers for 4 st. I paid 3 st. for paper. I made
a pen-and-ink portrait in his book of Felix kneeling2. He gave me 100
oysters. I gave Herr Lazarus (Ravensburger), the great man, an en-
graved Jerome and the three Large Books. Rodrigo gave me strong wine
and oysters. I bought some black chalk for 7 white pf. I have had as
guests at dinner Tomasin, Gerhard, Tomasin’s daughter, her husband,
the glass-painter Hennik, Jobst and his wife, and Felix. It cost 2 fl.
Tomasin gave me 4 ells of grey damask for a doublet. I have again
changed 1 Philips fl. for expenses.
The visit to Zeeland (3—14 Dec. 1520).
On St Barbara’s eve I rode away from Antwerp to Bergen op Zoom,
I paid 12 st. for the horse and spent 1 fl. 6 st. there. At Bergen I
bought my wife a thin Netherlandish cloth for the head3; it cost 1 fl.
7 st. Further 6 st. for three pair of shoes, 1 st. for a pair of spectacles,
also 6 st. for an ivory button. I gave 2 st. for a trinkgeld. I took the
portraits in charcoal of Jan de Has, his wife, and his two daughters, and
I drew the maid and the old woman with the metal-point in my sketch-
book4. I saw the von Bergen house, it is very large and beautifully
built. Bergen is a pleasant place in summer and two great fairs are held
there in the year5.
On our Lady’s eve I started with my companions for Zeeland and
Sebastian Imhof6 lent me 5 fl. The first night we lay at anchor in the
sea; it was very cold and we had neither food nor drink. On Saturday
we came to Goes, and there I drew a girl in her costume7. Thence we
went to Arnemuiden and I paid 15 st. for expenses. We passed by a
sunken place, and saw the tops of the roofs standing up out of the water.
And we went by the little island Wolfersdyk and past the little town
Kortgene (?) on another island lying near. Zeeland has seven islands,
and Arnemuiden, where I spent the night, is the largest.
From thence I went to Middelburg. There, in the Abbey, is a
great picture painted by Jan de Mabuse—not so good in the modelling
Jlauptstreichen) as in the colouring. I went next to the Veere, where
lie ships from all lands; it is a very fine little town.
1 A goldsmith who worked for the Archduchess Margaret.
2 Such a drawing is one of the two already referred to as in the Albertina
Collection.
3 In the Berlin Print-room is a portrait drawn by Diirer and thus inscribed,
“ This likeness Albrecht Diirer made of his wife at Antwerp in a Netherlandish
costume in the year 1521, when they had had each other in marriage 27 years.”
4 This leaf is in the Due d’Aumale’s collection. It is inscribed by Diirer zw
pergen feuertag.
5 A drawing of Bergen from Diirer’s sketch-book is in the Due d’Aumale’s
Collection.
6 The same that is mentioned in the Venice letters.
7 In the Due d’Aumale’s Collection, inscribed zu der gus in selant.