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Earhj German and Flemisli Woodcuts.—Part II.
[88-89.]
WOODCUTS IN TTIE EICHSTATT MISSAL. 1517.
(88. TWO ANGELS HOLDING THE SUDARIUM.)
No impression of the original eut is in the Print-room. It is to be found in
the Missale Eystetense, printed by H. Holzel, Nuremberg, 1517, fol., on the verso
of the fifth unnumbered vellum leaf contaiuing the canon. The types of the angels
are unusual, but the holy face is drawn in Springinklee’s manner, and as the majority
of the decorations of the book, including the whole set of initial letters, are by liim,
there is little doubt that this is also his work.
88a. TWO ANGELS HOLDING THE SUDARIUM.
Copy.
A deoeptive copy; the differences are most marked in the r. hand of the angel ]., and
in the ringlets of the long lock of hair to r. of the head of Clnist. No border-line.
[33 X 161.] Late impression.
In the inventory of 1837.
(89. ST. WILLIBALD. H. 2032. P. iii, 1S2, 189.)
No impression in the Print-room. The woodcut [292 x 211] is to be found, heavily
coloured, on the recto of the second vellum leaf in the Eichstatt Missal. It has been
attributed to Springinklee,1 but it is difficult to decide between his claims and those of
Schon; the border, drawn on the same block as the saint, is more in the latter’s style.
The arms of Bishop'Gabriel von Eybe, B. app. 47, are certainly by the same artist.
A copy of the Eichstatt Missal fin the possession of Mr. Quaritch (cat. 154, no. 65),
coutains a different vellum leaf from tlmt usually found iu the book at this place, with
different woodcuts, uncoloured. This leaf has not been inserted later, but bound up
originally with the book. The woodcut of St. Willibald [280 x 198] is superior to the
ordinary one; the pattern of the curtain is much richer, the shield (with the correct
arms) is of a different shape, and the border is in quite a distinct taste. The woodcut
o-f the Crucifixion, on the verso, is more in Burgkmair’s taste than Dtirer’s.
f ST. WILLIBALD.
(Reproduction.)
Lithograph by Retberg (Naumann’s Archiv, x. 283. 1). This impression was
presented by Retberg to Prestel, and by him to the British Museum, in 1870.
89a. ST. WILLIBALD.
Copy by Georg Erlinger.
Seconcl state, in which the emblems of St. Willibald have been
replaced by those of St. Erasmus.
The cojDy is deceptive, but differences of detail will be noticed on
comparing it with the woodcut in the missal, which prove that it is
actually a copy, and not an adaptation of the original block. In the
original, moreover, the subject is connected with the ornamental border
by a narrow frame made of four branches, tied together at the corners,
whereas the copy is surrounded by a plain border-line, and the block
[237 X 152] is printed within a detached passe-partout.
Alterations have been made in the copy itself, wliich prove that we
1 Mutber, no. 1134.
Earhj German and Flemisli Woodcuts.—Part II.
[88-89.]
WOODCUTS IN TTIE EICHSTATT MISSAL. 1517.
(88. TWO ANGELS HOLDING THE SUDARIUM.)
No impression of the original eut is in the Print-room. It is to be found in
the Missale Eystetense, printed by H. Holzel, Nuremberg, 1517, fol., on the verso
of the fifth unnumbered vellum leaf contaiuing the canon. The types of the angels
are unusual, but the holy face is drawn in Springinklee’s manner, and as the majority
of the decorations of the book, including the whole set of initial letters, are by liim,
there is little doubt that this is also his work.
88a. TWO ANGELS HOLDING THE SUDARIUM.
Copy.
A deoeptive copy; the differences are most marked in the r. hand of the angel ]., and
in the ringlets of the long lock of hair to r. of the head of Clnist. No border-line.
[33 X 161.] Late impression.
In the inventory of 1837.
(89. ST. WILLIBALD. H. 2032. P. iii, 1S2, 189.)
No impression in the Print-room. The woodcut [292 x 211] is to be found, heavily
coloured, on the recto of the second vellum leaf in the Eichstatt Missal. It has been
attributed to Springinklee,1 but it is difficult to decide between his claims and those of
Schon; the border, drawn on the same block as the saint, is more in the latter’s style.
The arms of Bishop'Gabriel von Eybe, B. app. 47, are certainly by the same artist.
A copy of the Eichstatt Missal fin the possession of Mr. Quaritch (cat. 154, no. 65),
coutains a different vellum leaf from tlmt usually found iu the book at this place, with
different woodcuts, uncoloured. This leaf has not been inserted later, but bound up
originally with the book. The woodcut of St. Willibald [280 x 198] is superior to the
ordinary one; the pattern of the curtain is much richer, the shield (with the correct
arms) is of a different shape, and the border is in quite a distinct taste. The woodcut
o-f the Crucifixion, on the verso, is more in Burgkmair’s taste than Dtirer’s.
f ST. WILLIBALD.
(Reproduction.)
Lithograph by Retberg (Naumann’s Archiv, x. 283. 1). This impression was
presented by Retberg to Prestel, and by him to the British Museum, in 1870.
89a. ST. WILLIBALD.
Copy by Georg Erlinger.
Seconcl state, in which the emblems of St. Willibald have been
replaced by those of St. Erasmus.
The cojDy is deceptive, but differences of detail will be noticed on
comparing it with the woodcut in the missal, which prove that it is
actually a copy, and not an adaptation of the original block. In the
original, moreover, the subject is connected with the ornamental border
by a narrow frame made of four branches, tied together at the corners,
whereas the copy is surrounded by a plain border-line, and the block
[237 X 152] is printed within a detached passe-partout.
Alterations have been made in the copy itself, wliich prove that we
1 Mutber, no. 1134.