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Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
la. ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE LION’S FOOT.
Copy.
A small window 1. of the door, at the top of the cut, is omitted. The
inscriptions on the books are much less legible and the cutting, as a
whole, is inferior.
[195 X 139.] Good impression without margin or watermark. On tlie back is tbe
title, “ Liber Aepistolarum | Sancti Hieronymi | Primae Partis,” printed iu red from
movable type.
This woodcut occurs before eacb of tbe tbree parts of the edition of St. Jerome’s
Epistles printed at Lyons by J. Sacon in 1508.
From tbe Bagford collection (Harl. MS. 5966, 21). Transferred from tbe Dept.
of Printed Books, 1900.
f THE SYPHILITIC. 1496. P. 198. Scbr. 1926 i.
(Reprcduction.)
Pbotolithographic facsimile of tbe firstedition of tbe pocm of Tlieodoricus Ulsenius,
“ In Epidimicam scabiem.vaticinium,” pnblislied at Nuremberg, 1 Aug. 1496,
aB a broadside, witli an unsigned wcodcut [251 X 97], probably by Diirer. This facsimile
was publisbed at Leipzig in 1900 by Johann Ultzen, a descendant of Ulsenius, wbo
published an article on tbe original in no. 2955 of tbe lllustrirte Zeitung, 15 Feb. 1900.
Tbe wocdcut was first described and attributed to Diirer by H. A. Cornill d’Orviile in
Naumann’s Archiv, 1856, ii, 100. The attribution was rejected by Tliausing, Botborg,
and Schreiber.
2. TIIE MARTYRDOM OF ST. SEBASTIAN. H. 2027. P. 182. R.—A 62.
The saint stands r. pierced by eight arrows. His r. arm is raised
above his head and bound to a tree ; his 1. arm is behind his back. He
has a nimbus witli an ornamental rim. An archer 1. is aiming an arrow
at Sebastian, while a second, in the foreground, leans forward in the act
of winding up his crossbow, and holds a bolt in his mouth. Two spec-
tators in Oriental costume stand a little wav back, ancl a young man
with curly hair, wearing a cap, stands behind tliem. Two horsemen are
seen at a greater distance on a road which ascends a hill ancl crosses a
defile between two wooded heights. On the 1. slope of the hill is a
fortified town with a lofty church spire. In the background r., behind
the saint, is a lake or arm of the sea with boats, and mountains on the
farther shore. Ho signature. Single borcler.
[390 x 287.] Good impression, but cut eo close tbat tbe border is lost at tbe top
and in part also at tbe sides. Watermark, IPa. 22a (not quite exact).
Presentcd by W. Mitcbell, Esq., 1895.
This very rare woodcut, reproduced by Retberg from the impression in tbe Cornill
eollection, b'as bcen attributed by Dr. W. Scbmidt1 to Schaufelein, but I find notbing
in it specially cbaracteristic of that artist. It bas a closer affinity witli Diirer’s own
style than witli tbat of any of bis pupils, and I regard it as tbe earliest of the series of
large woodcuts of tbe xv century, uniform witb it in dimensious, now to be described
(nos. 3-21). The Orientals are quite in Diirer’s manner; the uprigbt arclier bears a
strong resemblance to tbe sccond man from tbe left at tbe back in tbe Flagellation, B. 8.
The landscape, too, is like Diirer’s in many ways, tbougb the composilion is clumsy.
For tbe trees, compare B. 2, 13, 117, 127, 131; for tbe plants, B. 11 ; for tbe buildings,
especially tlie tower, B. 2, 127, 131. Notice tbe wny in wldcb tbe slope of a bank
running 'down to tbe road is drawn, and comp.u e B. 13. The elouds are unusual,
Iiepert. f. Kunstw. xvi, 308.
Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
la. ST. JEROME EXTRACTING A THORN FROM THE LION’S FOOT.
Copy.
A small window 1. of the door, at the top of the cut, is omitted. The
inscriptions on the books are much less legible and the cutting, as a
whole, is inferior.
[195 X 139.] Good impression without margin or watermark. On tlie back is tbe
title, “ Liber Aepistolarum | Sancti Hieronymi | Primae Partis,” printed iu red from
movable type.
This woodcut occurs before eacb of tbe tbree parts of the edition of St. Jerome’s
Epistles printed at Lyons by J. Sacon in 1508.
From tbe Bagford collection (Harl. MS. 5966, 21). Transferred from tbe Dept.
of Printed Books, 1900.
f THE SYPHILITIC. 1496. P. 198. Scbr. 1926 i.
(Reprcduction.)
Pbotolithographic facsimile of tbe firstedition of tbe pocm of Tlieodoricus Ulsenius,
“ In Epidimicam scabiem.vaticinium,” pnblislied at Nuremberg, 1 Aug. 1496,
aB a broadside, witli an unsigned wcodcut [251 X 97], probably by Diirer. This facsimile
was publisbed at Leipzig in 1900 by Johann Ultzen, a descendant of Ulsenius, wbo
published an article on tbe original in no. 2955 of tbe lllustrirte Zeitung, 15 Feb. 1900.
Tbe wocdcut was first described and attributed to Diirer by H. A. Cornill d’Orviile in
Naumann’s Archiv, 1856, ii, 100. The attribution was rejected by Tliausing, Botborg,
and Schreiber.
2. TIIE MARTYRDOM OF ST. SEBASTIAN. H. 2027. P. 182. R.—A 62.
The saint stands r. pierced by eight arrows. His r. arm is raised
above his head and bound to a tree ; his 1. arm is behind his back. He
has a nimbus witli an ornamental rim. An archer 1. is aiming an arrow
at Sebastian, while a second, in the foreground, leans forward in the act
of winding up his crossbow, and holds a bolt in his mouth. Two spec-
tators in Oriental costume stand a little wav back, ancl a young man
with curly hair, wearing a cap, stands behind tliem. Two horsemen are
seen at a greater distance on a road which ascends a hill ancl crosses a
defile between two wooded heights. On the 1. slope of the hill is a
fortified town with a lofty church spire. In the background r., behind
the saint, is a lake or arm of the sea with boats, and mountains on the
farther shore. Ho signature. Single borcler.
[390 x 287.] Good impression, but cut eo close tbat tbe border is lost at tbe top
and in part also at tbe sides. Watermark, IPa. 22a (not quite exact).
Presentcd by W. Mitcbell, Esq., 1895.
This very rare woodcut, reproduced by Retberg from the impression in tbe Cornill
eollection, b'as bcen attributed by Dr. W. Scbmidt1 to Schaufelein, but I find notbing
in it specially cbaracteristic of that artist. It bas a closer affinity witli Diirer’s own
style than witli tbat of any of bis pupils, and I regard it as tbe earliest of the series of
large woodcuts of tbe xv century, uniform witb it in dimensious, now to be described
(nos. 3-21). The Orientals are quite in Diirer’s manner; the uprigbt arclier bears a
strong resemblance to tbe sccond man from tbe left at tbe back in tbe Flagellation, B. 8.
The landscape, too, is like Diirer’s in many ways, tbougb the composilion is clumsy.
For tbe trees, compare B. 2, 13, 117, 127, 131; for tbe plants, B. 11 ; for tbe buildings,
especially tlie tower, B. 2, 127, 131. Notice tbe wny in wldcb tbe slope of a bank
running 'down to tbe road is drawn, and comp.u e B. 13. The elouds are unusual,
Iiepert. f. Kunstw. xvi, 308.