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Division B.—Dotted Prints.
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robe with a jewelled girdle. She holds a closed book in her r. hand, and
supports on her 1. hand a tower in three stages, of which the uppermost
contains three windows, the next four, and the lowest one window and a
door, in all eight windows, not ‘seven’ (Willsh. Schr.). At the top of
the tower is a tall, conical oi’nament, perhaps intended for a monstrance
containing the host. The ground is covered with a variety of plants, of
which the most conspicuous are two strawberry plants 1. and r. bearing
fruit. The other kinds have a flower composed of three large dots, or a
wide rounded leaf shaped like a mushroom. The background is com-
posed of the diaper pattern already described (B 3, see also B 5, 6),
in which the flowers placed at the intersection of the cross-lines are
composed of four petals printed with a three-toothed stamp, and placed
round a central ring, The pattern ends at the bottom in a fringe,
which shows that it is intended to represent brocade or tapestry. The
border consists of a broad black line with a narrow white line within it.
The print itself [177 X 117] is placed within a jpasse-partout, 23 mm.
in width, consisting of a wavy band of frilled clouds with white stars
on a black ground, interrupted at the corners by medallions with the
emblems of the four evangelists, named as follows :
1. upper corner tttatfjC (r. upper corner, St. Mark, wanting), 1. lower
corner, IttCclQ, r. lower corner, Jfof)?lttC(s). The outer border is composed
of two white and two black lines. A white space 2-5 mm. in width is
left between the print itself and the passe-partout, and on the upper
part of this space is written in an old hand SANCTA WLEtGO
BABBA(BA).
[231 X 163 (cut).] In good condition, except that tlie entire r. upper coruer is tom
away, including part of the print itself, and the passe-partout is cut nearly to the middle
all clown the r. side.
C'olours: yellowish green, madder recl, pale brown. No watermark.
Margin (bottom only), 5 mm.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872.
Other impressions of this engraving without the passe-partout (not copies, as Schr.
asserts) are in the Berlin and Munich Cabinets, and iu the Bibliotheque Royale at
Brussels. A comparison of facsimiles of the Munich impression (Schmidt 88) and the
Brussels impression (“ Docum. iconogr. et typogr.,” 1877, text by Hymans) with the British
Museum impression leaves no doubt that they are from the same plate. All three have
the slip near the centre of the lower borcler, by wkich a blade of grass lias been carried
down accidentally right through the black border-line, and the mistake in the pattern
in the second row of roses from the bottom on the left, by which tlie wrong kincl of
flower is introduced. It might be expected, on the analogy of the St. Catherine by the
same artist (Schr. 2571-2), that a copy would exist in reverse, but no suclr copy has been
described. B 20, St. Dorothy (Schr. 2607), was also designed by the same artist.
The ornamental stamp used on St. Barbara’s girdle and for the conical object over
the tower recurs on the girdles of the two other saints. The three-toothed ornament
used for the petals of the flowers is applied to the decoration of St. Catherine’s nimbus,
a8 well as to the largeflowers atthe cornersof the inner border. The mushroom-shaped
leaf or flower is common to all three prints.
t ST. BARBAEA.
(Reproduction.)
Schr. 2556.
W.—B 36.
Photograph of the original [79 X 51] iu the University Galleries, Oxford, from the
Douce collection. Other impressions are in tlie public collections at Berlin, Yienna
and Paris.
ST. BARBARA.
Schr. 2559.
See B 13(8).
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robe with a jewelled girdle. She holds a closed book in her r. hand, and
supports on her 1. hand a tower in three stages, of which the uppermost
contains three windows, the next four, and the lowest one window and a
door, in all eight windows, not ‘seven’ (Willsh. Schr.). At the top of
the tower is a tall, conical oi’nament, perhaps intended for a monstrance
containing the host. The ground is covered with a variety of plants, of
which the most conspicuous are two strawberry plants 1. and r. bearing
fruit. The other kinds have a flower composed of three large dots, or a
wide rounded leaf shaped like a mushroom. The background is com-
posed of the diaper pattern already described (B 3, see also B 5, 6),
in which the flowers placed at the intersection of the cross-lines are
composed of four petals printed with a three-toothed stamp, and placed
round a central ring, The pattern ends at the bottom in a fringe,
which shows that it is intended to represent brocade or tapestry. The
border consists of a broad black line with a narrow white line within it.
The print itself [177 X 117] is placed within a jpasse-partout, 23 mm.
in width, consisting of a wavy band of frilled clouds with white stars
on a black ground, interrupted at the corners by medallions with the
emblems of the four evangelists, named as follows :
1. upper corner tttatfjC (r. upper corner, St. Mark, wanting), 1. lower
corner, IttCclQ, r. lower corner, Jfof)?lttC(s). The outer border is composed
of two white and two black lines. A white space 2-5 mm. in width is
left between the print itself and the passe-partout, and on the upper
part of this space is written in an old hand SANCTA WLEtGO
BABBA(BA).
[231 X 163 (cut).] In good condition, except that tlie entire r. upper coruer is tom
away, including part of the print itself, and the passe-partout is cut nearly to the middle
all clown the r. side.
C'olours: yellowish green, madder recl, pale brown. No watermark.
Margin (bottom only), 5 mm.
Purchased at the Weigel sale, 1872.
Other impressions of this engraving without the passe-partout (not copies, as Schr.
asserts) are in the Berlin and Munich Cabinets, and iu the Bibliotheque Royale at
Brussels. A comparison of facsimiles of the Munich impression (Schmidt 88) and the
Brussels impression (“ Docum. iconogr. et typogr.,” 1877, text by Hymans) with the British
Museum impression leaves no doubt that they are from the same plate. All three have
the slip near the centre of the lower borcler, by wkich a blade of grass lias been carried
down accidentally right through the black border-line, and the mistake in the pattern
in the second row of roses from the bottom on the left, by which tlie wrong kincl of
flower is introduced. It might be expected, on the analogy of the St. Catherine by the
same artist (Schr. 2571-2), that a copy would exist in reverse, but no suclr copy has been
described. B 20, St. Dorothy (Schr. 2607), was also designed by the same artist.
The ornamental stamp used on St. Barbara’s girdle and for the conical object over
the tower recurs on the girdles of the two other saints. The three-toothed ornament
used for the petals of the flowers is applied to the decoration of St. Catherine’s nimbus,
a8 well as to the largeflowers atthe cornersof the inner border. The mushroom-shaped
leaf or flower is common to all three prints.
t ST. BARBAEA.
(Reproduction.)
Schr. 2556.
W.—B 36.
Photograph of the original [79 X 51] iu the University Galleries, Oxford, from the
Douce collection. Other impressions are in tlie public collections at Berlin, Yienna
and Paris.
ST. BARBARA.
Schr. 2559.
See B 13(8).