Dodgson, Campbell: Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] (London, 1903)

Bivision A.—School of Nuremberg.—Beham.

487

[163, 164.] Two illustrations frorn Schwartzenberg, “ Beschwerung
der alten Teiifelischen Schlangen.” Hans Herrgott, Nuremberg, 1525 ; 4to.
Muther 1265. (See p. 441, no. 4.)

103. CONFESSION.

A monk, with cowl over his heacl, sits r. in a chair, hearing the
confession of a layman who kneels before him. Single border.

[98 x 97.] The heading of the page (leaf lxij, recto) is “ Yon der Beycht.”
Presented by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., 1895.

164. COMMUNION.

An altar iies obliquely across the 1. side. Before it, a priest, vested
in alb, amice, ancl crossed stole, but without a chasuble, is about to give
the Host to a man who kneels before him with foldecl hancls. Another
man ancl a woman stancl in the background.

[98 x 97.] The heading of the page (leaf lxv, verso) is “ Yom Testament Christi.”

Presentcd by Sir A. Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., 1895.

While no. 163 is one of the worst, no. 164 is one of the best illustrations in the book,
and some of the types of face may be compared especially with no. 131 (Pauli 1197).

Copy from an engraving by Beham.

165. THE DEPAETURE OF TIIE PRODIGAL SON FROM HIS FATHEE’S
HOUSE. After Pauli 33.

The composition is reversed, and the seconcl son r. wipes away his tears
with his r. hand.

[215 x 332.] Late impression.

In the inventory of 1837.

In the details of architecture and landscape this copy is far more faithful to the
original engraving than that described by Bartscli (viii, 235, 125) and Pauli (33d), of
wliich the block is preserved in the Derscliau collection. Pauli describes (33c)
another woodcut copy in the direction of the original, but this reversed copy is
undescribed.