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Early Germcin and Flemish Woodcuts.-—Part I.
THE YIBGIN AND CHILD WITH EIGHT YIEGIN SAINTS.
Scbr. 1170. See A 64.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST. ANNE.
Sclir. 1190. See A 65.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST. ANNE.
Schr. 1197. See A 66.
A 63.
THE HOLY FAMILY, WITH ST. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE.
Schr. 1213. W.—D 63.
St. Anne sits in the middle of a carved Gothic throne with a high
back in three divisions. The Yirgin, of a diminutive size, sits on her lap,
and the infant Christ stands, upheld by both. St. Joseph sits 1.,
St. Joachim r. The former is bare-headed; the latter wears a turban.
Each has an open book on his lap. Neither has a nimbus. St. Anne and
the Yirgin have a nimbus with a rayed disk, but Christ has none. Behind
St. Anne a piece of rich stuff with a large pattern is suspended from two
nails. Above this hovers the Holy Dove. An open book lies on the
step of the throne, which is rouncled and projecting in the middle. On the
front of the step are the names : 0OlSrpij ♦ ttta ♦ £ij.d ♦ aitlta ♦ 0Oaofjtltb
The floor below the step is paved in squares. The border is double on all
sicles except the top, where the inner line of the border bends in and
forms an ogee arch over the throne. Between this arch and the outer
border is the name of the convent in two parts: fiftaVtOtt: (1.) :
amatrr (r.).
[118 X 83.] Coloui'8 : vermilion, crimson, cinnabar, yellow, blue, green, gold (tar-
nished) ; inner border, vermilion. Margiu (artificial on r. side) [1-4] uncoloured.
For origin, see remarks on A 61.
f THE VIRGIN AND CIIILD WITH ST. DIONYSIUS.
(Reproduction.)
The Yirgin stands 1., holding the Child on her r. arm, a sceptre in her
1. hancl. St. Dionysius stands r. attired as a bishop, holding his pastoral
staff in his r. hand, and in his 1. hand a closecl book, on which is his head,
wearing a mitre. This second head, the emblem of his martyrdom, is a
slightly reduced likeness, with closed eyes, of the head which is still on
the saint’s shoulders. Two diminutive suppliants, afflicted with the
morbus gallicus, kneel 1. and r., a woman at the feet of the Yirgin, a man
near St. Dionysius. Tlie background is a hilly landscape with a winding
roacl leading to a fortified town. Single border. At the foot of the
print is a. German prayer, 13J lines, in large type, invoking St. Dionysius
sas a protector against the ravages of the aforesaid disease.
Photograph (reduced) from the original broadside [424 x 298, tlie woodcut itself
212 x 205] in tlie Hof-u. Staatsbibliothek, Munich (Einbl. vii, 9). The type was used
by tlie Nuremberg printers Stiiclis, Hbltzel and Hochfeder, and the cut appears to be
by au artist of thc school of Wolgemut about 1496-1500. St. Dionysius is rarely repre-
■sented in German artexcept as one of tlie 14 “Notlielfer.” He is invoked here as the
patron of France against a disease thought to have originated in that country, where
his intorcossion had already worked wonders against it.
Early Germcin and Flemish Woodcuts.-—Part I.
THE YIBGIN AND CHILD WITH EIGHT YIEGIN SAINTS.
Scbr. 1170. See A 64.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST. ANNE.
Sclir. 1190. See A 65.
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ST. ANNE.
Schr. 1197. See A 66.
A 63.
THE HOLY FAMILY, WITH ST. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE.
Schr. 1213. W.—D 63.
St. Anne sits in the middle of a carved Gothic throne with a high
back in three divisions. The Yirgin, of a diminutive size, sits on her lap,
and the infant Christ stands, upheld by both. St. Joseph sits 1.,
St. Joachim r. The former is bare-headed; the latter wears a turban.
Each has an open book on his lap. Neither has a nimbus. St. Anne and
the Yirgin have a nimbus with a rayed disk, but Christ has none. Behind
St. Anne a piece of rich stuff with a large pattern is suspended from two
nails. Above this hovers the Holy Dove. An open book lies on the
step of the throne, which is rouncled and projecting in the middle. On the
front of the step are the names : 0OlSrpij ♦ ttta ♦ £ij.d ♦ aitlta ♦ 0Oaofjtltb
The floor below the step is paved in squares. The border is double on all
sicles except the top, where the inner line of the border bends in and
forms an ogee arch over the throne. Between this arch and the outer
border is the name of the convent in two parts: fiftaVtOtt: (1.) :
amatrr (r.).
[118 X 83.] Coloui'8 : vermilion, crimson, cinnabar, yellow, blue, green, gold (tar-
nished) ; inner border, vermilion. Margiu (artificial on r. side) [1-4] uncoloured.
For origin, see remarks on A 61.
f THE VIRGIN AND CIIILD WITH ST. DIONYSIUS.
(Reproduction.)
The Yirgin stands 1., holding the Child on her r. arm, a sceptre in her
1. hancl. St. Dionysius stands r. attired as a bishop, holding his pastoral
staff in his r. hand, and in his 1. hand a closecl book, on which is his head,
wearing a mitre. This second head, the emblem of his martyrdom, is a
slightly reduced likeness, with closed eyes, of the head which is still on
the saint’s shoulders. Two diminutive suppliants, afflicted with the
morbus gallicus, kneel 1. and r., a woman at the feet of the Yirgin, a man
near St. Dionysius. Tlie background is a hilly landscape with a winding
roacl leading to a fortified town. Single border. At the foot of the
print is a. German prayer, 13J lines, in large type, invoking St. Dionysius
sas a protector against the ravages of the aforesaid disease.
Photograph (reduced) from the original broadside [424 x 298, tlie woodcut itself
212 x 205] in tlie Hof-u. Staatsbibliothek, Munich (Einbl. vii, 9). The type was used
by tlie Nuremberg printers Stiiclis, Hbltzel and Hochfeder, and the cut appears to be
by au artist of thc school of Wolgemut about 1496-1500. St. Dionysius is rarely repre-
■sented in German artexcept as one of tlie 14 “Notlielfer.” He is invoked here as the
patron of France against a disease thought to have originated in that country, where
his intorcossion had already worked wonders against it.