Dodgson, Campbell: Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] (London, 1903)

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Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.

out the circle are, in the upper corners, 1. the arms o£ Cardinal Lang,
r. a dedication to the same, in ten lines of Roman letter, enclosed by a
wreath, and, in the lower corners, 1. the arms of Stabius, Conrad Hein-
fogel, and Diirer, with an inscription recording the share which these
three took in preparing the block, and r. the privilege granted by Maxi-
milian to Stabius, printed in twelve lines in Roman letter, with the date,
1515, surrounded by clouds. At the top, outside the border-line, is the
title, “ Imagines cceli Meridionales,” in Gothic letter, cut on wood.

[453(withmscription),427(without), x 432.] Fine impression; perfectly preserved.
Watermark, Ha. 28.

Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.

In Retberg’s lithograph (no. 31) of this subject, the lions in Lang’s arms are on a
blackfield, as in no. 126 above; in the impression of the original, now described, the field
is white. In the coloured impression at Munich, from which Retberg worked, the field
has been painted black, and this misled him.

128a. THE CELESTIAL GLOBF—SOUTHERN HEMISPIiERE.

B. 152. H. 1925. R. 215.

Late impression, on grey paper, like that of no. 127a. The block has been cut to a
circle [diam. 370], and jDiirer’s monogram has been inserted below the constellation
Piscis Notius. The block, thus mutilated, is preserved in the Berlin Cabinet.

In the inventory of 1837.

129. THE AUSTRIAN SAINTS. B. 116. H. 1880. R. 219.

First edition, with six saints. About 1515.

[174 X 132.] Imperfect, being the r. half only of a fine early impression. The
fragment contains the figures of SS. Severinus, Coloman, and Leopold, and the r. half
of the long tablet contains the inscriptions that refer to them. The border-iine is
preserved on three sides.

Presented by W. Mitchell. Esq., 1895.

129a. THE AUSTRIAN SAINTS. B. 116. H. 1880. R. 219.

First edition, with six saints.

[155 X 271.] A later and weaker impression, also imperfect; the six saints
(Quirinus. Maximilian, Florian, and the three named above) are preserved, but the
tablet coutaining the inscriptions has been cut off. Watermark, Ha. 21.

Presented by W. Mitcliell, Esq., 1895.

The first edition, complete, is reproduced in Hirth’s Les Gmnds lllustrateurs,
no. 403.

129b. THE AUSTRIAN SAINTS. B. 116. H. 1S80. R. 219.

Second edition, with eight saints. 1517.

In the second edition the uumber of the saints was increased to eight by tlie
addition of Poppo and Otto on the right. The original ternhnation of the tablet was
cut off, and the design was copied at the end of a new piece added to contain the
enlarged inscription.

[175 x 365.] Giood impression, but slightly damaged and inferior in slmrpneBS to
those of the first edition. There is no border-line at the top of the new piece. The
portion of the dalmatic of Poppo wliich sliows through tlie open 1. side of liis chasuble
lias been re-drawn and re-cut ou an inserted piece of wood, the outlines of which can be
clearly traced. The second edition first appeared as a fly-sheet with Latin verses by
Stabius, in three columns, with the date m.d.xvii at tlie end (see Hausmann, p. 74).
Late impressions exist, for the block is preserved in the Derschap collection, pow iu the