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Earhj German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
shoulder, in the centre of a group of seven persons. Behind him and 1.
are four soldiers, one of whom, in full armour, is stripping the rohe off
his arms. The Virgin r. is girding liis body with tbe loin-cloth. Behind
her are two holy women. iSTo hatching is used. The folds of the drapery
are angular. Single horder, intact only at the top and on part of the
I. side.
[79 X 61.] Portions of tlie 1. eide liave beeu torn away. The rest is well preserved,
but cut within tlie border. The wroodcut has been backed with a paper leaf from a
Latin MS. book of devotions. The rents in the cut itself prove that it was not originally
pasted on this leaf. Colours : crimson lake, yellow, light brown, dark grey, green.
Purchased from Mr. Bousfield, 1850.
CHRIST AWAITING CRUCIFIXIOX.
See A 7 (18).
CHRIST BEIXG XAILED TO THE CROSS.
See A 7 (19).
CHRIST DESC'EXDIXG IXTO HELL.
See A 7 (21).
A 24.
THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIX.
Sclir. 710.
The Virgin lies with lier head r. on a low couch with a carved head.
Her hands are crossed at the wrists and lie on the coverlet before her.
An apostle stands with both hands on the head of the bed ; another
kneels at the foot; a third sits r. on the tiled hoor and reads the oflice
for tlie dying. Christ stands on the further side of the bed, and receives
the soul of his mother, in the form of a child with a nimbus, wearing a
simple robe. St. Beter 1. leans over the bed, placing with his r. hand
a lighted taper in tbe band of the Virgin. In bis 1. hand be bolds
a tall crosier. Nearer the foot of tbe bed St. John stands with clasped
hands. The eight remaining apostles stand in a group behind Christ
and St. Peter. Two of their nimbi are of a vermilion colour ; a third is
left blank ; the remainder have been covered with a pale gold, which lias
oxidised and turned almost entirely black. The folds of the drapery are
angular. No cross-hatching is used. The eyes are large, tlie lips thick ;
a strongly marked slanting line runs fi'om each side of the nostrils down
the cheek. Tlie hands are long and thin, without articulations. Single
border.
Selir. 662.
Schr. 676.
8ckr. 690.
[173 X 128.] Slightly torn and restored inl. lower corner, otkerwise well preserved.
Colours: green, ligkt blue, reddisli brown, yellowisk brown, vermilion, black, gold.
Tke watermark is not recognisable.
Presented bv W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895. Ropr. (reduced) in Gutekunst’s Sale Catalogue,
18S6.
f THE COROXATION OF THE VIRGIX.
Schr. 726. (Copy.) W.—D 59.
Tracing in peix and ink of a woodcut found in 1841, togetkcr witli a large woodcut of
tlie Crucitixion, in tlie interior of a tomb in thc Catkedral Cliurck of St. Sauveur
at Bruges, and now preserved in tke Musee Archcologique of tlxat city (‘-Annalcs de la
Earhj German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part I.
shoulder, in the centre of a group of seven persons. Behind him and 1.
are four soldiers, one of whom, in full armour, is stripping the rohe off
his arms. The Virgin r. is girding liis body with tbe loin-cloth. Behind
her are two holy women. iSTo hatching is used. The folds of the drapery
are angular. Single horder, intact only at the top and on part of the
I. side.
[79 X 61.] Portions of tlie 1. eide liave beeu torn away. The rest is well preserved,
but cut within tlie border. The wroodcut has been backed with a paper leaf from a
Latin MS. book of devotions. The rents in the cut itself prove that it was not originally
pasted on this leaf. Colours : crimson lake, yellow, light brown, dark grey, green.
Purchased from Mr. Bousfield, 1850.
CHRIST AWAITING CRUCIFIXIOX.
See A 7 (18).
CHRIST BEIXG XAILED TO THE CROSS.
See A 7 (19).
CHRIST DESC'EXDIXG IXTO HELL.
See A 7 (21).
A 24.
THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIX.
Sclir. 710.
The Virgin lies with lier head r. on a low couch with a carved head.
Her hands are crossed at the wrists and lie on the coverlet before her.
An apostle stands with both hands on the head of the bed ; another
kneels at the foot; a third sits r. on the tiled hoor and reads the oflice
for tlie dying. Christ stands on the further side of the bed, and receives
the soul of his mother, in the form of a child with a nimbus, wearing a
simple robe. St. Beter 1. leans over the bed, placing with his r. hand
a lighted taper in tbe band of the Virgin. In bis 1. hand be bolds
a tall crosier. Nearer the foot of tbe bed St. John stands with clasped
hands. The eight remaining apostles stand in a group behind Christ
and St. Peter. Two of their nimbi are of a vermilion colour ; a third is
left blank ; the remainder have been covered with a pale gold, which lias
oxidised and turned almost entirely black. The folds of the drapery are
angular. No cross-hatching is used. The eyes are large, tlie lips thick ;
a strongly marked slanting line runs fi'om each side of the nostrils down
the cheek. Tlie hands are long and thin, without articulations. Single
border.
Selir. 662.
Schr. 676.
8ckr. 690.
[173 X 128.] Slightly torn and restored inl. lower corner, otkerwise well preserved.
Colours: green, ligkt blue, reddisli brown, yellowisk brown, vermilion, black, gold.
Tke watermark is not recognisable.
Presented bv W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895. Ropr. (reduced) in Gutekunst’s Sale Catalogue,
18S6.
f THE COROXATION OF THE VIRGIX.
Schr. 726. (Copy.) W.—D 59.
Tracing in peix and ink of a woodcut found in 1841, togetkcr witli a large woodcut of
tlie Crucitixion, in tlie interior of a tomb in thc Catkedral Cliurck of St. Sauveur
at Bruges, and now preserved in tke Musee Archcologique of tlxat city (‘-Annalcs de la