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t)ivision A.—School of Nuremberg.—Diirer.
335
140c. P0RTEA.IT 0F MAXIMILIAN I. 1518 B. 154. H. 1950. R. 231.
Copy.
Prom another block, earlier than that usecl for 140a. The drawing of
the features is rather more free, though it agrees with 140a in almost
every particular in which the latter departs from 140. The white patches
on the neck are larger than in 140a. In some details of the ornament 140c
agrees with 140, not with 140a. For instance, in 140 and 140c, the six-
petalled flower nearest to the 1. lower corner faces 1.; in 140a it faces r.
In 140a the border-line cuts off part of the lower petals of this flower ; in
140 and 140c- there is an interval of 3 mm. between the lowest petal and
tlie border. This copy has no inscription; the latter is not merely cut
off, for if that were the case the ribands at the encl of the scroll would
still show near the ends of the hat. The paper on the 1. side is inserted,
but the original paper on the r. side shows no trace of the riband. There
is, however, on either side, a fragmentary line belonging to the rolled-up
end of the scroll itself ; so that we have here, probably, a second state of
the block, from which the scroll, originally present, has been cut off,
leaving slight traces of its presence.
[373 X 324.] Good, old impression, witli slight injuries. Watermark, a small, low
crown.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi, 1871.
On the back of this impression is an undescribed fantastic woodcut by
an anonymous Huremberg artist (an imitator of H. S. Beham), about 1530.
On a black shield are represented a nucle man and woman, the latter head
downwarcls : their bodies are joined together by a white patch, approxi-
mately square, which conceals their middles, with a dot in the centre.
The man wears a wide hat trimmed with feathers and has an ivy wreath
round his waist and spurs on his heels ; he is playing the flute. Tlie
woman has a circlet on her brow and a chain round her neck; she
holds an embossed drinking-glass in both hancls. The shield has a leaf-
pattern along its indented edge. No border-line. Limits of design,
228 x 200.
Tliis is evidently a proof of a block intended for the manufacture of one of those
toys, etill in common use, in which bodies and legs can be joined in different com-
binations by turniug a movable disk, whick supplies a waist that will fit either figure.
The missing part would have been printed on a card or paper attached to the rest by a
wire passing through the point marked by a dot.
141. (After Diirer.) PORTEAIT OF MAXIMILIAN I IN AN ARCHITEC-
TURAL FRAME. 1519. B. 153. H. 1949. R. 230.
[550 X 381.] Good impression of the second state, with monogram inserted in the
r. lower corner. »Some defects, including the long crack which passes down the 1. side
of the imperial shield and across Maximilian’s hat and hair, have been disguised with
Indian ink, Watermark indistinct.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
This woodcut can only be regarded as anotlier copy of no. 140. The drawing of tlie
hair, features, and neck, agrees most closely witli 140c. Fine as they are, the archi-
tectural frame and the griffins, with the emblems of the Golden Fleece at the top, are
not at all in Durer’s style. I have no liesitation in attributing them, and consequently
the whole copy, to the Pseudo-Burgkmair,” or “ Master of thc Illustrations to Petrarch,”
the unknown draughtsman wlio worked chiefiy for the firm of Grimm and Wirsuug, at
335
140c. P0RTEA.IT 0F MAXIMILIAN I. 1518 B. 154. H. 1950. R. 231.
Copy.
Prom another block, earlier than that usecl for 140a. The drawing of
the features is rather more free, though it agrees with 140a in almost
every particular in which the latter departs from 140. The white patches
on the neck are larger than in 140a. In some details of the ornament 140c
agrees with 140, not with 140a. For instance, in 140 and 140c, the six-
petalled flower nearest to the 1. lower corner faces 1.; in 140a it faces r.
In 140a the border-line cuts off part of the lower petals of this flower ; in
140 and 140c- there is an interval of 3 mm. between the lowest petal and
tlie border. This copy has no inscription; the latter is not merely cut
off, for if that were the case the ribands at the encl of the scroll would
still show near the ends of the hat. The paper on the 1. side is inserted,
but the original paper on the r. side shows no trace of the riband. There
is, however, on either side, a fragmentary line belonging to the rolled-up
end of the scroll itself ; so that we have here, probably, a second state of
the block, from which the scroll, originally present, has been cut off,
leaving slight traces of its presence.
[373 X 324.] Good, old impression, witli slight injuries. Watermark, a small, low
crown.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi, 1871.
On the back of this impression is an undescribed fantastic woodcut by
an anonymous Huremberg artist (an imitator of H. S. Beham), about 1530.
On a black shield are represented a nucle man and woman, the latter head
downwarcls : their bodies are joined together by a white patch, approxi-
mately square, which conceals their middles, with a dot in the centre.
The man wears a wide hat trimmed with feathers and has an ivy wreath
round his waist and spurs on his heels ; he is playing the flute. Tlie
woman has a circlet on her brow and a chain round her neck; she
holds an embossed drinking-glass in both hancls. The shield has a leaf-
pattern along its indented edge. No border-line. Limits of design,
228 x 200.
Tliis is evidently a proof of a block intended for the manufacture of one of those
toys, etill in common use, in which bodies and legs can be joined in different com-
binations by turniug a movable disk, whick supplies a waist that will fit either figure.
The missing part would have been printed on a card or paper attached to the rest by a
wire passing through the point marked by a dot.
141. (After Diirer.) PORTEAIT OF MAXIMILIAN I IN AN ARCHITEC-
TURAL FRAME. 1519. B. 153. H. 1949. R. 230.
[550 X 381.] Good impression of the second state, with monogram inserted in the
r. lower corner. »Some defects, including the long crack which passes down the 1. side
of the imperial shield and across Maximilian’s hat and hair, have been disguised with
Indian ink, Watermark indistinct.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
This woodcut can only be regarded as anotlier copy of no. 140. The drawing of tlie
hair, features, and neck, agrees most closely witli 140c. Fine as they are, the archi-
tectural frame and the griffins, with the emblems of the Golden Fleece at the top, are
not at all in Durer’s style. I have no liesitation in attributing them, and consequently
the whole copy, to the Pseudo-Burgkmair,” or “ Master of thc Illustrations to Petrarch,”
the unknown draughtsman wlio worked chiefiy for the firm of Grimm and Wirsuug, at