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Division A.—School of Nuremberg.—SpringinMee.
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have to clo with a seeond state of the block. hTo impression of the first
state appears to have survived, but it may be supposed that it represented
St. Willibald, copied directly from the original. In the second state a
square piece of the block, corresponding to that portion of the original
which contains the episcopal arms, has been cut out and replaced with
a new block simply completing the bishop’s robes, the fringe of the curtain,
and the floor. A larger piece, containing the saint’s 1. hand, with a book
and the upper r. portion of the curtain ancl rod, has been replaced with a
new block containing the usual emblem of St. Erasmus and the adjacent
part of the curtain drawn afresh.
The border [330 X 228] is composed of four blocks fitted together.
Each of the side panels contains a vertical section of a candelabrum with
dolphins, angels supporting vases and cressets, and other Renaissance
ornaments. At the top and bottom of these panels are the emblems of
the four Evangelists, as follows : at the top, 1. St. John, r. St. Matthew;
at the bottom 1. St. Mark, r. St. Luke. The top panel is filled with
foliage having a cherub’s heacl in the midst, the bottom panel withgarlands
which support a tablet bearing the (printed) address, “ Georig | Erlinger j
zu Bamberg.”
In the inventory of 1837.
Joseph Heller, in his monograph on Georg Erlinger, published in 1837, traces his
work as a printer at Bamberg from 1519 1 to 1542, when he died. Many of his books
have titie-borders or illustrations wbich he is supposed to have cut. Ilis mark is an
arrow pointing upwards, with a Greek cross placed obliquely on the shaft.2 Heller
conjectures that this may allude to some connection with the Bamberg printer Johann
Pfeil (d. 1519-20). To the single woodcut described by Bartscli, from the impression
in the Hofbibliothek, Yienna, there may be added five undescribed woodcuts with
Erlinger’s mark in the university library at Erlangen., viz.:—
The Annunciation, after Wechtlin, P. iii, 331, 14.
The Crucifixion, after Baldung, B. vii, 125, 57. Mark in r. lower corner.
The Holy Family, after Baldung, B. viii, 467, 6. A rabbit in 1. lower corner holds
a tablet with the mark.
St. Apollonia and St. Dorothy. These two are printed from the same block, the
attributes being varied by means of a piece added on the 1. side. The saint is copied
from an original woodcut of St. Dorothy described by Heller, no. 2042, which is
attributed at Munich to Springinklee.
It will be seen from this list that Erlinger was mainly, if not exclusively, a copyist
of other men’s work. The border described above, which bears liis name, is probably
copied from Schon or Springinklee, though I do not know the original.
1 We first hear of him at Augsburg in 1516 as a printer.
2 See B. vii, 471; Brulliot, i, 423.
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have to clo with a seeond state of the block. hTo impression of the first
state appears to have survived, but it may be supposed that it represented
St. Willibald, copied directly from the original. In the second state a
square piece of the block, corresponding to that portion of the original
which contains the episcopal arms, has been cut out and replaced with
a new block simply completing the bishop’s robes, the fringe of the curtain,
and the floor. A larger piece, containing the saint’s 1. hand, with a book
and the upper r. portion of the curtain ancl rod, has been replaced with a
new block containing the usual emblem of St. Erasmus and the adjacent
part of the curtain drawn afresh.
The border [330 X 228] is composed of four blocks fitted together.
Each of the side panels contains a vertical section of a candelabrum with
dolphins, angels supporting vases and cressets, and other Renaissance
ornaments. At the top and bottom of these panels are the emblems of
the four Evangelists, as follows : at the top, 1. St. John, r. St. Matthew;
at the bottom 1. St. Mark, r. St. Luke. The top panel is filled with
foliage having a cherub’s heacl in the midst, the bottom panel withgarlands
which support a tablet bearing the (printed) address, “ Georig | Erlinger j
zu Bamberg.”
In the inventory of 1837.
Joseph Heller, in his monograph on Georg Erlinger, published in 1837, traces his
work as a printer at Bamberg from 1519 1 to 1542, when he died. Many of his books
have titie-borders or illustrations wbich he is supposed to have cut. Ilis mark is an
arrow pointing upwards, with a Greek cross placed obliquely on the shaft.2 Heller
conjectures that this may allude to some connection with the Bamberg printer Johann
Pfeil (d. 1519-20). To the single woodcut described by Bartscli, from the impression
in the Hofbibliothek, Yienna, there may be added five undescribed woodcuts with
Erlinger’s mark in the university library at Erlangen., viz.:—
The Annunciation, after Wechtlin, P. iii, 331, 14.
The Crucifixion, after Baldung, B. vii, 125, 57. Mark in r. lower corner.
The Holy Family, after Baldung, B. viii, 467, 6. A rabbit in 1. lower corner holds
a tablet with the mark.
St. Apollonia and St. Dorothy. These two are printed from the same block, the
attributes being varied by means of a piece added on the 1. side. The saint is copied
from an original woodcut of St. Dorothy described by Heller, no. 2042, which is
attributed at Munich to Springinklee.
It will be seen from this list that Erlinger was mainly, if not exclusively, a copyist
of other men’s work. The border described above, which bears liis name, is probably
copied from Schon or Springinklee, though I do not know the original.
1 We first hear of him at Augsburg in 1516 as a printer.
2 See B. vii, 471; Brulliot, i, 423.