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Division A.—Single Woodcuts.
91
exposed, ancl she has a m'mbus with single rim. She is gazing upwards at
the infant Christ, who stands on two crossed branches of a tree, from
which he is picking flowers and letting them fall into a basket which St.
Dorothy holds in her r. hand. He has a cruciform nimbus with a single
rim, and wears a short tunic, open in front. There is no hatching. This
composition is enclosed by a single border [140 x 96] and placed irregu-
larly in a passe-partout, which does not fit it, so that a blank space is left
at the top of the composition, and the outer line of the print itself passes
beyond the inner hne of the passe-partout on both sides. The passe-
partout must therefore have been printed first, the inner block separately
and later. The passe-partout contains, between an inner and an outer
border-line, four bands of ornament on a black ground (resembling the
pattern described under A 69), consisting of acanthus leaves, two at the
top and bottom and three at the sides, divided by four-petalled flowers.
Four similar flowers are placed, each on a dark square, in the corners to
complete the design. The whole border thus consists of ten leaves and
ten flowers.
[201 x 139.] The impression shows some signs of wear in the block, and is itself
considerably damaged, the passe-partout being worm-eaten and torn in several places.
Colours : carmine (faded), pale yellow, verdigris green, dark blue, gold; passe-partout
crimson lake, verdigris green, yellow. St. Dorothy’s dress is covered with a white,
sandy incrustation, covered originally with small quartz crystals and tinsel, of which
little remains, together with traces of colour, dark blue, crimson and green. Tinsel,
together with a pale greenish pigment, has also been applied over a thinner and smoother
white ground, to the branches of the tree and the centre of each of tlre ten flowers of
the passe-partout. A similar technique is described by Schr. as occurring on nos. 29,
810, 868, 922, 1026, 1341, 1425 (see photograph), and 1595 of his catalogue. It is sup-
posed to date from the years 1450-60.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895. Reduced repr. in G. Gutekunst’s Sale-
catalogue, 1886.
A 81.
ST. FLORIAN.
Schr. 1420. W.—D 78.
The saint, in full armour, bare-headed, with a jewelled band over his
brow and a nimbus with double rim, stands r., turning slightly 1. and
looking down on a fortified town in flames, over which he pours water
from a wooden bucket. At the winclow of a tower, from which flames are
shooting, a man is seen with folded hands imploring the aid of the saint
against the conflagration.
[300 X 205 (cut).] The remains of the original woodcut have been cut out along
the main outlines of the composition, and mounted at some time on a piece of old, worm-
eaten paper. This is itself considerably damaged, and has been lined more recently
with stout, modern paper. The top of St. Florian’s lance, witli a pennon attaclied to it,
and a snake under his feet, which seems to have no connection witli the original de-
sign, have been drawn in ink and colours on the old paper on which the fragments are
mounted, and at the same time the lines of the woodcut were gone over in lamp-black,
so that the original printed outlines can only be seen in a very few places. Colours :
crimson-lake, yellow ochre, green.
Purchased from Messrs. Smith, 1845.
t ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
Schr. 1425. (Reproduction.)
Photograph of the original cut in the Dresden Cabinet. See note on A80.
[198 x 136.]
91
exposed, ancl she has a m'mbus with single rim. She is gazing upwards at
the infant Christ, who stands on two crossed branches of a tree, from
which he is picking flowers and letting them fall into a basket which St.
Dorothy holds in her r. hand. He has a cruciform nimbus with a single
rim, and wears a short tunic, open in front. There is no hatching. This
composition is enclosed by a single border [140 x 96] and placed irregu-
larly in a passe-partout, which does not fit it, so that a blank space is left
at the top of the composition, and the outer line of the print itself passes
beyond the inner hne of the passe-partout on both sides. The passe-
partout must therefore have been printed first, the inner block separately
and later. The passe-partout contains, between an inner and an outer
border-line, four bands of ornament on a black ground (resembling the
pattern described under A 69), consisting of acanthus leaves, two at the
top and bottom and three at the sides, divided by four-petalled flowers.
Four similar flowers are placed, each on a dark square, in the corners to
complete the design. The whole border thus consists of ten leaves and
ten flowers.
[201 x 139.] The impression shows some signs of wear in the block, and is itself
considerably damaged, the passe-partout being worm-eaten and torn in several places.
Colours : carmine (faded), pale yellow, verdigris green, dark blue, gold; passe-partout
crimson lake, verdigris green, yellow. St. Dorothy’s dress is covered with a white,
sandy incrustation, covered originally with small quartz crystals and tinsel, of which
little remains, together with traces of colour, dark blue, crimson and green. Tinsel,
together with a pale greenish pigment, has also been applied over a thinner and smoother
white ground, to the branches of the tree and the centre of each of tlre ten flowers of
the passe-partout. A similar technique is described by Schr. as occurring on nos. 29,
810, 868, 922, 1026, 1341, 1425 (see photograph), and 1595 of his catalogue. It is sup-
posed to date from the years 1450-60.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895. Reduced repr. in G. Gutekunst’s Sale-
catalogue, 1886.
A 81.
ST. FLORIAN.
Schr. 1420. W.—D 78.
The saint, in full armour, bare-headed, with a jewelled band over his
brow and a nimbus with double rim, stands r., turning slightly 1. and
looking down on a fortified town in flames, over which he pours water
from a wooden bucket. At the winclow of a tower, from which flames are
shooting, a man is seen with folded hands imploring the aid of the saint
against the conflagration.
[300 X 205 (cut).] The remains of the original woodcut have been cut out along
the main outlines of the composition, and mounted at some time on a piece of old, worm-
eaten paper. This is itself considerably damaged, and has been lined more recently
with stout, modern paper. The top of St. Florian’s lance, witli a pennon attaclied to it,
and a snake under his feet, which seems to have no connection witli the original de-
sign, have been drawn in ink and colours on the old paper on which the fragments are
mounted, and at the same time the lines of the woodcut were gone over in lamp-black,
so that the original printed outlines can only be seen in a very few places. Colours :
crimson-lake, yellow ochre, green.
Purchased from Messrs. Smith, 1845.
t ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI.
Schr. 1425. (Reproduction.)
Photograph of the original cut in the Dresden Cabinet. See note on A80.
[198 x 136.]