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Division A.—Sohool of Nuremberg.—Beham,
465
Tlie first state, of which there is au impression at Brunswick, was also printed in a
Low German Bible, or New Testament, at tlie beginning of the Epistle to Philemon.
Unfortunately, it hasnot yet been possible toidentity the edition to which eitlier belongs.
Such a discovery might reveal the existence of another set of the Four Evaugelists by
Beham, with perhaps SS. Peter, James and Jude, who are generally found together
when the authors of the books of the New Testament are represented in an illustrated
edition of this period.
114. THE CONYERSION OF ST. PAUL. Pauli 898.
The horse, on which St. Paul is riding to r., has fallen on its knees.
The rider looks up to 1. over his shoulder at the vision of Gfod above the
clouds, and raises his r. hand to shade his dazzled eyes. In the distance
r. a church with two towers among trees. No signature. , Round subject
enclosed by a fourfold border.
[Diam. 67, or of inner circle, 56.] Late impression.
Provenance not recorded.
115. ST. ANTONY. RepeH.f. Kvnstw. xxv, 468.
The saint, in a monastic habit, a high cap on his head, with a single
nimbus, stands, turning a little to r., and looking upward, holding a book
in liis r. hand, ancl in his 1. hand a staff surmounted by a large Tau cross ;
a bell hangs by a thong from the thumb of the 1. hand. A one-legged
cripple, afflicted with St. Antony’s fire, kneels r. and holds up his 1. hand,
breaking out literally into flames, towards the saint. A female suppliant
kneels 1. with clasped hands, and the head and forelegs of a pig are seen
between her ancl St. Antony. To r. is the wall of a chapel, outside
which votive tapers are burning, while offerings in wax, arms, legs and
hands, ancl entire bodies on a small scale, are suspended from a rocl ancl
attached to an iron grating in a window. There is another wall 1., and a
small glimpse of landscape background. Single borcler. Ro signature.
[295 x 221.] Good, though not very early, impression, on old, white paper, without
watermark. Margin [3-6].
In the inventory of 1837.
The attribution to Beham is my owti. His style is not very easily recognised, but I
believe this subject to be one of an early series of male saints, uniform in style, and
(approximately) in dimensions with a series of femalo saints, of which only one is
described by Pauli (no. 903, St. Catherine), while two more, SS. Apollonia and Barbara,
are preserved at Erlangen (Repertorium, xxv, 167). The background 1. is quite in the
style of these woodcuts, while the architecture recalls no. 106 (Pauli 887).
116. THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. CATPIERINE. A. 213. S. 309. Pauli 903.
St. Catherine kneels, with folded liands, in the midclle of the fore-
ground, facing r. An executioner in a wicle hat, standing behincl lier,
clraws his sworcl from the scabbard with his r. liand, ancl lays his 1. liand
on the martyr’s shoulder. In the background r. is the broken wheel.
Three men in Oriental dress, one of whom holds a sceptre, stancl beside
the wheel, and a fourth lies on the ground in front of it, with his head
towarcls St. Catherine. Fire falls from heaven. In the distance 1. a
walled town on the slope of a hill. ISTo signature. Single border.
[290 x 223.] Good impression on old, white paper, without watermark. Margin [1].
In the inventory of 1837.
For other woodcuts allicd to this, see note on uo. 115.
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465
Tlie first state, of which there is au impression at Brunswick, was also printed in a
Low German Bible, or New Testament, at tlie beginning of the Epistle to Philemon.
Unfortunately, it hasnot yet been possible toidentity the edition to which eitlier belongs.
Such a discovery might reveal the existence of another set of the Four Evaugelists by
Beham, with perhaps SS. Peter, James and Jude, who are generally found together
when the authors of the books of the New Testament are represented in an illustrated
edition of this period.
114. THE CONYERSION OF ST. PAUL. Pauli 898.
The horse, on which St. Paul is riding to r., has fallen on its knees.
The rider looks up to 1. over his shoulder at the vision of Gfod above the
clouds, and raises his r. hand to shade his dazzled eyes. In the distance
r. a church with two towers among trees. No signature. , Round subject
enclosed by a fourfold border.
[Diam. 67, or of inner circle, 56.] Late impression.
Provenance not recorded.
115. ST. ANTONY. RepeH.f. Kvnstw. xxv, 468.
The saint, in a monastic habit, a high cap on his head, with a single
nimbus, stands, turning a little to r., and looking upward, holding a book
in liis r. hand, ancl in his 1. hand a staff surmounted by a large Tau cross ;
a bell hangs by a thong from the thumb of the 1. hand. A one-legged
cripple, afflicted with St. Antony’s fire, kneels r. and holds up his 1. hand,
breaking out literally into flames, towards the saint. A female suppliant
kneels 1. with clasped hands, and the head and forelegs of a pig are seen
between her ancl St. Antony. To r. is the wall of a chapel, outside
which votive tapers are burning, while offerings in wax, arms, legs and
hands, ancl entire bodies on a small scale, are suspended from a rocl ancl
attached to an iron grating in a window. There is another wall 1., and a
small glimpse of landscape background. Single borcler. Ro signature.
[295 x 221.] Good, though not very early, impression, on old, white paper, without
watermark. Margin [3-6].
In the inventory of 1837.
The attribution to Beham is my owti. His style is not very easily recognised, but I
believe this subject to be one of an early series of male saints, uniform in style, and
(approximately) in dimensions with a series of femalo saints, of which only one is
described by Pauli (no. 903, St. Catherine), while two more, SS. Apollonia and Barbara,
are preserved at Erlangen (Repertorium, xxv, 167). The background 1. is quite in the
style of these woodcuts, while the architecture recalls no. 106 (Pauli 887).
116. THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. CATPIERINE. A. 213. S. 309. Pauli 903.
St. Catherine kneels, with folded liands, in the midclle of the fore-
ground, facing r. An executioner in a wicle hat, standing behincl lier,
clraws his sworcl from the scabbard with his r. liand, ancl lays his 1. liand
on the martyr’s shoulder. In the background r. is the broken wheel.
Three men in Oriental dress, one of whom holds a sceptre, stancl beside
the wheel, and a fourth lies on the ground in front of it, with his head
towarcls St. Catherine. Fire falls from heaven. In the distance 1. a
walled town on the slope of a hill. ISTo signature. Single border.
[290 x 223.] Good impression on old, white paper, without watermark. Margin [1].
In the inventory of 1837.
For other woodcuts allicd to this, see note on uo. 115.
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