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Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
see p. 425, no. 19. Thirty-nine cards belonging to this pack were in W. Y. Ottley’s collec-
tion (sale-catalogue, May, 1837, p. 41, no. 61o). Fifteen cards are also (since 1667) in the
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (AA. 1 Res. Cat. ii, 10534) ; two of these, valet of grapes
and six of (vine ?) leaves, are reproduced in Lacroix, “ Le Moyen Age et la Reuais-
sance,” tome ii, Cartes a Jouer, pl. iv bis. M. Henri Bouchot informs me that the
cards reproduced iu pl. iv and on the 1. side of pl. iv bis are not in the Cahinet des
Estampes at all. The cards at Paris are mentioned by Nagler, who was wrong, of
course, in inferring from the presence of the arms of Saxony that the artist Rved in
that eountry.
37. A PORTICO. Nagl. Mon. ii, p. 652, no. 1755.
A large unfinished stone building, with beams and joists partly laid,
drawn in perspective. Scbon’s monogram, witb an acute angle drawn to
1. of it, is placed towards the r. of the tbresbold. bTo border.
[302 x 253, limits of design ; 311 x 256, size of sheet.] Yery fine impression on
white paper; watermark, a bear with a collar.
Presented by W. MitcheR, Esq., 1895.
This is perhaps the impression described by Nagler on the authority of J. A. Borner;
I have never seen another. The woodcut is too large to have formed part of any book
but a very iarge folio, and it has apparently no connection witli any work of Rivius.
It is probably about contemporary with the drawing-book which Schon published in
1538, where the same angle is placed by the side of his monogram on the title-page.
See Repertorium, xx, 207.
38. A MAN ON HORSEBACK.
A man in profile, in a low bat witli a featber, bolding a switcb in his
r. bancl, rides towards tbe 1. To r., bebind tbe borse, is a bare tree, and
to b, in front, a stump from wbicb young brancbes are sbooting. ISTo
signature. Single border.
[109 X 113.] The impression is much soiled, and the outlines have been pounced
for the purpose of transferring the design.
In the inventory of 1837.
This cut occupies sig. F ii v. of the 1542 and 1543 editions of Schon’s “ TJnder-
weisung der Proportion ” (at Coburg and Berlin respectively).
Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
see p. 425, no. 19. Thirty-nine cards belonging to this pack were in W. Y. Ottley’s collec-
tion (sale-catalogue, May, 1837, p. 41, no. 61o). Fifteen cards are also (since 1667) in the
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (AA. 1 Res. Cat. ii, 10534) ; two of these, valet of grapes
and six of (vine ?) leaves, are reproduced in Lacroix, “ Le Moyen Age et la Reuais-
sance,” tome ii, Cartes a Jouer, pl. iv bis. M. Henri Bouchot informs me that the
cards reproduced iu pl. iv and on the 1. side of pl. iv bis are not in the Cahinet des
Estampes at all. The cards at Paris are mentioned by Nagler, who was wrong, of
course, in inferring from the presence of the arms of Saxony that the artist Rved in
that eountry.
37. A PORTICO. Nagl. Mon. ii, p. 652, no. 1755.
A large unfinished stone building, with beams and joists partly laid,
drawn in perspective. Scbon’s monogram, witb an acute angle drawn to
1. of it, is placed towards the r. of the tbresbold. bTo border.
[302 x 253, limits of design ; 311 x 256, size of sheet.] Yery fine impression on
white paper; watermark, a bear with a collar.
Presented by W. MitcheR, Esq., 1895.
This is perhaps the impression described by Nagler on the authority of J. A. Borner;
I have never seen another. The woodcut is too large to have formed part of any book
but a very iarge folio, and it has apparently no connection witli any work of Rivius.
It is probably about contemporary with the drawing-book which Schon published in
1538, where the same angle is placed by the side of his monogram on the title-page.
See Repertorium, xx, 207.
38. A MAN ON HORSEBACK.
A man in profile, in a low bat witli a featber, bolding a switcb in his
r. bancl, rides towards tbe 1. To r., bebind tbe borse, is a bare tree, and
to b, in front, a stump from wbicb young brancbes are sbooting. ISTo
signature. Single border.
[109 X 113.] The impression is much soiled, and the outlines have been pounced
for the purpose of transferring the design.
In the inventory of 1837.
This cut occupies sig. F ii v. of the 1542 and 1543 editions of Schon’s “ TJnder-
weisung der Proportion ” (at Coburg and Berlin respectively).