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Division A.—School of Nuremberg.—Schdn.
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boob or broadside. I attribute it to Schon on accouut of tbe features of both characters.
The general may be compared especially witli au Austrian Archduke (Albrecht VI ?)
on the pedigree, no. 34, the Turk with the King on the pack of cards described below.
The oviform moulding on the arch is almost identical with that on two heraldic wood-
cuts of the school of Diirer, the arms of Lazarus Spengler, B. app. 58, and the small
arms of Hector Pomer, B. app. 53, both ascribed by Dr. Pauli to Beham (nos. 1351,
1353). The cherubs’ heads on the latter cut are perhaps more in Schon’s stylo
than Beham’s.
35a. A G-ENERAL AND A TURK. Later impression.
The cut here is printed at the 1. side of a broadside, headed “ Des getrewen
Eckhart.s lehr vnnd recht, An die Hauptleut vnd frommen Landszknecht.” At the
side of the cut are two columns of verses. The first of these is a dialogue between
Oberster Kriegszherr and Der Getrew Eckhart, who is thus described:
“Herr Gott was kompt do fiir ein weybell,
Er tregt sein Thartzschen, kleyd vnd seybell,
Gleich als wie ein tiirck.”
The second column is a speech by Der Getrew Eckhart in thirty-four verses. At the
foot is the address, “In der Fiirstlicken Stadt Coburgk, triickts Ciriacus Schnauss
Apotecker.”
[Sheet 197 X 282.] The block here is much more worn than in the earlier
impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaglii & Co., 1862.
There is a late impression of this block at Gotha on a broadside dated 1550, with no
address, but with verses signed “ C. Schnauss A.”
36. PLAYING CARDS. Nagl. Mon. ii, p. 653, no. 1758.
(1) Deuce of roses.
In front of a tree bearing two roses, two angels or genii support the
two shields of Nuremberg and that of the empire, the latter surmounted
by a royal crown. In the middle below is the figure 2.
(2) ISTine of roses.
At the foot of a tree bearing nine roses, two human heads, with
fish-like bodies attached to them, sprawl on the ground.
(3) Seven of leaves.
At the foot of a tree bearing seven (vine 1) leaves, a fox sits wipingi its
eye, watched by two sympathetic geese; another fox runs off to 1. with a
goose in its mouth.
(4) Ten of grapes.1
An amazon rests her r. hand on a shield inscribed with the figure 10,
and carries a branch with the suit mark in her 1. hand. The figure x is
over her helmet.
[Each 92 x 61, cut.]
Bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1896.
Described in Lady C. Schreiber’s work on Playing Cards, 1893, ii, 13, and repro-
duced, pl. 102. The cards are theie said to be in the style of H. S. Beham. They are
also described as no. 113 in Mr. P. M. O’Donoghue’s catalogue of the Schreiber
collection, 1901, and are there rightly attributed to Schon. The date there assigned to
them, 1540, is too late. The shape of the crown suggests that the coronation of
Charles V at Bologna (Feb. 1530) had not yet taken place. The style agrees very
closely with that of the Tree of Jesse, 1528, and of a border used in tlie same year (see
p. 425, no. 17). For another card of the same pack used about 1530 as a book illustration,
1 Sir A. W. Franks was wrong in describing this suit as pomegranates; the con-
ventional representation of a pomegranate occurs among the cards from this pack at
Paris as the mark of the fourtli suit, wliich is not represented here.
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boob or broadside. I attribute it to Schon on accouut of tbe features of both characters.
The general may be compared especially witli au Austrian Archduke (Albrecht VI ?)
on the pedigree, no. 34, the Turk with the King on the pack of cards described below.
The oviform moulding on the arch is almost identical with that on two heraldic wood-
cuts of the school of Diirer, the arms of Lazarus Spengler, B. app. 58, and the small
arms of Hector Pomer, B. app. 53, both ascribed by Dr. Pauli to Beham (nos. 1351,
1353). The cherubs’ heads on the latter cut are perhaps more in Schon’s stylo
than Beham’s.
35a. A G-ENERAL AND A TURK. Later impression.
The cut here is printed at the 1. side of a broadside, headed “ Des getrewen
Eckhart.s lehr vnnd recht, An die Hauptleut vnd frommen Landszknecht.” At the
side of the cut are two columns of verses. The first of these is a dialogue between
Oberster Kriegszherr and Der Getrew Eckhart, who is thus described:
“Herr Gott was kompt do fiir ein weybell,
Er tregt sein Thartzschen, kleyd vnd seybell,
Gleich als wie ein tiirck.”
The second column is a speech by Der Getrew Eckhart in thirty-four verses. At the
foot is the address, “In der Fiirstlicken Stadt Coburgk, triickts Ciriacus Schnauss
Apotecker.”
[Sheet 197 X 282.] The block here is much more worn than in the earlier
impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaglii & Co., 1862.
There is a late impression of this block at Gotha on a broadside dated 1550, with no
address, but with verses signed “ C. Schnauss A.”
36. PLAYING CARDS. Nagl. Mon. ii, p. 653, no. 1758.
(1) Deuce of roses.
In front of a tree bearing two roses, two angels or genii support the
two shields of Nuremberg and that of the empire, the latter surmounted
by a royal crown. In the middle below is the figure 2.
(2) ISTine of roses.
At the foot of a tree bearing nine roses, two human heads, with
fish-like bodies attached to them, sprawl on the ground.
(3) Seven of leaves.
At the foot of a tree bearing seven (vine 1) leaves, a fox sits wipingi its
eye, watched by two sympathetic geese; another fox runs off to 1. with a
goose in its mouth.
(4) Ten of grapes.1
An amazon rests her r. hand on a shield inscribed with the figure 10,
and carries a branch with the suit mark in her 1. hand. The figure x is
over her helmet.
[Each 92 x 61, cut.]
Bequeathed by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1896.
Described in Lady C. Schreiber’s work on Playing Cards, 1893, ii, 13, and repro-
duced, pl. 102. The cards are theie said to be in the style of H. S. Beham. They are
also described as no. 113 in Mr. P. M. O’Donoghue’s catalogue of the Schreiber
collection, 1901, and are there rightly attributed to Schon. The date there assigned to
them, 1540, is too late. The shape of the crown suggests that the coronation of
Charles V at Bologna (Feb. 1530) had not yet taken place. The style agrees very
closely with that of the Tree of Jesse, 1528, and of a border used in tlie same year (see
p. 425, no. 17). For another card of the same pack used about 1530 as a book illustration,
1 Sir A. W. Franks was wrong in describing this suit as pomegranates; the con-
ventional representation of a pomegranate occurs among the cards from this pack at
Paris as the mark of the fourtli suit, wliich is not represented here.