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)

Division A.—Sohool of Nuremberg.—Anonymous. 499

21. THE TAILOR AND THE GOAT.

T'he interior of a tailor’s shop. A woman’s cloak and dress are hanging
up, and a piece of cloth lies spread on a table, with the shears upon it.
In the foreground a he-goat is standing on its hind legs, while the tailor
tries on a man’s short mantle. Under the subject, cut on the same block,
are the verses:

“ Ich bin ein maister kunstenreich, auf erden lebt nit meins gleich,
wen ich eim mach ein mantel oder ein rock, so springt alsz balt

daraus ein bock.”

At the sides, also on the same block, are two panels of white ornament
on a black ground.

[148 x 133.] Late impression ; watermark, a fortified gate.

Purchased from Mr. Cohn, 1880.

A drawing of this subject, byH. S. Beham, is at Dresden (Woermann, ii, 9), but the
composition is diiferent. The woodcut resembles in technique some of the rough
woodcuts of lovers, etc., designed by Beham, and may perhaps be founded on a sketch
by him, but the ornament and the word “ maister ” suggest Augsburg.

22. TWO PEASANTS. P. iv, 85, 200. A. 255. S. 301. Pauli 1444.

A man in a wide-brimmed hat carries a cheese or piece of butter,
markecl with a cross. An old woman by his side r. carries in her 1. hand
a basket of eggs. To 1. the stump of a tree. Single borcler.

[286 x 220.] Old impression.

Purchased from Messrs. Smith, 1845.

This belongs to a series of caricatures, produced partly at Nuremberg, partly at
Augsburg, which have been wrongly attributed to Bebam. An early impression of
this subject, at Gotha, has the date 1521 and address, “ Nurnberg. H. Guldenmundt.”

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