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Division A.—Single Woodcuts.
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A 91.
ST. JEROME.
Sclu'. 1537; W. u. Z. 18'
W.—D 87.
The saint, in the costume of a cardinal, with a plain nimbus, sits r. on
a bench outside a Gothic chapel with a door at the end, a window of four
lights at the side, and a turret with a cupola on the farther side. At the
1. end of the bench is a reading-desk, on which a book lies open, with a
pair of eye-glasses and a pen-case. The floor in the foreground is
paved in squares. St. Jerome leans forward to draw a thorn out of the r.
foot of a lion, which sits at his feet and looks up at him. In the background
1. St. -Jerome is seen again, this time with a bearcl, doing penance on the
side of a rocky hill, up which a winding road leads to a little chapel with
a belfry. He kneels before a crucifix and beats his breast with a stone,
which he holds in his r. hand. A long row of spires is seen over the ridge
of a hill beyond the crucifix. The lion lies on the ground near the saint.
There is no indication of sky. Hatching is largely used along the folds of
the drapery. The border is single.
[264 X 184.] G-ood impreasion, well preserved, witliout margin. Colours : crimson
lake, liglrt brown, yellow, verdigris green.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872. Forruerly pasted in the cover of a book printed
in 1480.
Another impression, clifferently coloured, is in the Munich Cabinet. (Schr. does not
speak positively as to both being from the same block. )
The design is in all essentials the same as that of two prints in the maniere crible'e,
Schr. 2672-3, the latter of which is in tho B. M. (B 24), while Schmidt (no. 66) gives a
reproduction of the former. The woodcut appears to be a later and inferior version,
combining some of the peculiarities of each of the other two prints, while it omits some
details which are common to both, e.g. the clouds, tlre tower and other buildings beyond
the chapel, the man standing in the doorway, the name on St. Jerome’s nimbus, the
tassels of the cords of his cardinal’s hat. It agrees with Schr. 2672 in giving the
winding road up the liill 1., in the shape of the small chapel on the hill, and in the
arrangement of the bricks below the window of the large chapel. It agrees with Schr.
2673 in the line of spires along the liill, in the shape of the rocks near tlie r. liand of St.
Jerome doing peuance, and iu the shape of tlie shingles witli whicli the cliapel is roofed.
On a drawing by Wolgemut, or one of his pupils, related to this group of cuts, see
Jahrbuch cler 1;. preuss. Kunstsammlungen, xvi, 230.
A 92.
ST. JEROME.
Schr. 1538; W. u. Z. 93.
W.—D SS.
St. Jerome kneels in penitence with a stone in his r. hancl, on the side
of a hill 1., before a crucifix r. which rises from clouds. He wears nothing
but a short tunic, open in front ancl drawn in at the waist. He has a
long beard. His nimbus has an ornamental clisk ancl clouble rim. His
book and cardinal’s hat are on the ground behincl him. The lion sits r,
with one foot liftecl towarcls him. In the distance, beyoncl a grove of
trees, a doe is running up-hill towards the monastery, which stancls on the
summit 1. On the slope of the hill is a row of jmplars. There is no
inclication of sky. The border is single. All the lines are thick and
coarse. There is no hatching.
[265 X 178.] Indistinct impression produced by friction, in a black, watery ink.
Well preserved generally, but worm-eaten in some placcs. Colours: crimson lake,
yellow, yellowish green, light brown, dark grey. Margin (imperfect) uncoloured.
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97
A 91.
ST. JEROME.
Sclu'. 1537; W. u. Z. 18'
W.—D 87.
The saint, in the costume of a cardinal, with a plain nimbus, sits r. on
a bench outside a Gothic chapel with a door at the end, a window of four
lights at the side, and a turret with a cupola on the farther side. At the
1. end of the bench is a reading-desk, on which a book lies open, with a
pair of eye-glasses and a pen-case. The floor in the foreground is
paved in squares. St. Jerome leans forward to draw a thorn out of the r.
foot of a lion, which sits at his feet and looks up at him. In the background
1. St. -Jerome is seen again, this time with a bearcl, doing penance on the
side of a rocky hill, up which a winding road leads to a little chapel with
a belfry. He kneels before a crucifix and beats his breast with a stone,
which he holds in his r. hand. A long row of spires is seen over the ridge
of a hill beyond the crucifix. The lion lies on the ground near the saint.
There is no indication of sky. Hatching is largely used along the folds of
the drapery. The border is single.
[264 X 184.] G-ood impreasion, well preserved, witliout margin. Colours : crimson
lake, liglrt brown, yellow, verdigris green.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872. Forruerly pasted in the cover of a book printed
in 1480.
Another impression, clifferently coloured, is in the Munich Cabinet. (Schr. does not
speak positively as to both being from the same block. )
The design is in all essentials the same as that of two prints in the maniere crible'e,
Schr. 2672-3, the latter of which is in tho B. M. (B 24), while Schmidt (no. 66) gives a
reproduction of the former. The woodcut appears to be a later and inferior version,
combining some of the peculiarities of each of the other two prints, while it omits some
details which are common to both, e.g. the clouds, tlre tower and other buildings beyond
the chapel, the man standing in the doorway, the name on St. Jerome’s nimbus, the
tassels of the cords of his cardinal’s hat. It agrees with Schr. 2672 in giving the
winding road up the liill 1., in the shape of the small chapel on the hill, and in the
arrangement of the bricks below the window of the large chapel. It agrees with Schr.
2673 in the line of spires along the liill, in the shape of the rocks near tlie r. liand of St.
Jerome doing peuance, and iu the shape of tlie shingles witli whicli the cliapel is roofed.
On a drawing by Wolgemut, or one of his pupils, related to this group of cuts, see
Jahrbuch cler 1;. preuss. Kunstsammlungen, xvi, 230.
A 92.
ST. JEROME.
Schr. 1538; W. u. Z. 93.
W.—D SS.
St. Jerome kneels in penitence with a stone in his r. hancl, on the side
of a hill 1., before a crucifix r. which rises from clouds. He wears nothing
but a short tunic, open in front ancl drawn in at the waist. He has a
long beard. His nimbus has an ornamental clisk ancl clouble rim. His
book and cardinal’s hat are on the ground behincl him. The lion sits r,
with one foot liftecl towarcls him. In the distance, beyoncl a grove of
trees, a doe is running up-hill towards the monastery, which stancls on the
summit 1. On the slope of the hill is a row of jmplars. There is no
inclication of sky. The border is single. All the lines are thick and
coarse. There is no hatching.
[265 X 178.] Indistinct impression produced by friction, in a black, watery ink.
Well preserved generally, but worm-eaten in some placcs. Colours: crimson lake,
yellow, yellowish green, light brown, dark grey. Margin (imperfect) uncoloured.
H