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Bivision A.—Sohool of Nuremberg.—Fldtner.
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cards are preserved in the pack of painted cards, copied from Flotner, witli tlie arms of
Modena on the deuce of each suit, in the Schreiber collection in the Print-room
(Gatalogue by F. M. O’Donoghue, p. 75, no. 3). The four of hearts is somewhat free in
subject, and represents a courtesan esposing her hinder parts, while her lover with a
dagger in his r. hand, its sheath in his 1. hand, falls backwards off a stool. The
“Unter” of bells represents an old hunckback in a fool’s cap and spectacles, wearing
clogs, with a pitcher balanced on his hump, walking to r. and holding a sausage in liis
1. hand and a ribbon, from which the suit-mark is suspended, in his r. hand.
The fives of the four suits, preserved at Paris and in this collection, though
reproduced by the Societe des Bibliophiles Frangais (pl. 93), have not beeu described
before, except by Willshire; the subjects may, tlierefore, be repeated here. (6) A
young man and young woman standing by a fountain ; the latter has her hair twisted
in two plaits; her back is turned. (7) A well-dressed citizeu and his wife walk to r.,
followed by a maid with a clothes-basket on her back, carrying a pilcher in eacli liand.
(8) Four naked female children play round a pedestai, like a caudlestick, on which a
fifth child stands, blowdng two trumpets. The objects held by two of the childreu are
not “ flaming torches ” (W.), but a kind of soft brusli or flap (Wedel) exactly like that
used by a woman bathing, in the three of leaves in tliis pack, to keep the flies off, and
tlie brush held by the Masnad who is urging the he-goat to jump through a hoop in
Beimers 8. (9) A liunchbacked dwarf, mounted on a goat, is driving his spear into the
mouth of a pig crouching on the ground. A woman clasping the stem of a tree with
her r. hand, holds a wreath in her 1. hand. On a cushion in the foreground is the
object which also occurs in nos. (2) and (5).
30a. “ OBER ” OF LEAYES, FEOM THE SAME PACK. Hirth 778.
A later impression, on brownish paper.
From the Bagford collection (Sloane 1044, 545). Transferred from tlie Department
of Printed Books, 1900.
f GAPITAL AND BASE OF A COLUMN. Eeimers 64.
(Eeproduction.)
The composite capital is decorated with acanthus leaves and with a
naked female child, standing on a shell, holding up in both hands the ends
of a veil which falls in a graceful curve behind her back. On the broken
end of the shaft, above the four decorated members of the base and
plinth, are the chisel and upright mallet; on the latter are the initials
P. F.
Photograpli of the impression at Goburg [255 x 184], to which Dr. Koetscliau kindly
called my attention in 1900. Eeimers mentions impressions at Munich and Paris.
This capilal has been reproduced in Hirth’s Formenschatz, 1884, no. 67.
The child strongly resemblts the girl on the pedestal in the five of bells,
no. 30 (8).
Eeimers has described (nos. 62-71) a series of capitals and bases of columns or
pilasters, whicli have all been reproduced either by Hirth, Eeimers or Lange. There is
a complete column [387 x 29], still undescribed, at Erlangen, whicli I would attribute
to Flbtnrr. It ends, like the great column attributed to Diirer, in a turnip root held by
two children ; the latter remind me of Flbtner’s playing-cards.
31. GEOTESQUE PANEL. 1546. P. iii, 256, 29. Eeimers 79.
[180 x 120.] Impression cut out of “ Imperatorum Eomanorum Imagines,” Ziirich,
1559 (see p. 527, no. 2).
Purchased from Messrs. Coluaglii, 1871.
This is the commonest and I est known of all Flbtner’s woodcuts. It belongs to tlic
series of arabesques publisked by R. Wyssenbach in 1549, and again by A. Gesner in
1560, but it was also used in the following books: “ Wunderbarlicige kostliche Gemiilt,”
I. Gessner, Ziiiich, 1566; “ Architectura Antiqua,” J. Bodrner, Ziirich, 1627 (here the
date 1546 has disappeared),
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cards are preserved in the pack of painted cards, copied from Flotner, witli tlie arms of
Modena on the deuce of each suit, in the Schreiber collection in the Print-room
(Gatalogue by F. M. O’Donoghue, p. 75, no. 3). The four of hearts is somewhat free in
subject, and represents a courtesan esposing her hinder parts, while her lover with a
dagger in his r. hand, its sheath in his 1. hand, falls backwards off a stool. The
“Unter” of bells represents an old hunckback in a fool’s cap and spectacles, wearing
clogs, with a pitcher balanced on his hump, walking to r. and holding a sausage in liis
1. hand and a ribbon, from which the suit-mark is suspended, in his r. hand.
The fives of the four suits, preserved at Paris and in this collection, though
reproduced by the Societe des Bibliophiles Frangais (pl. 93), have not beeu described
before, except by Willshire; the subjects may, tlierefore, be repeated here. (6) A
young man and young woman standing by a fountain ; the latter has her hair twisted
in two plaits; her back is turned. (7) A well-dressed citizeu and his wife walk to r.,
followed by a maid with a clothes-basket on her back, carrying a pilcher in eacli liand.
(8) Four naked female children play round a pedestai, like a caudlestick, on which a
fifth child stands, blowdng two trumpets. The objects held by two of the childreu are
not “ flaming torches ” (W.), but a kind of soft brusli or flap (Wedel) exactly like that
used by a woman bathing, in the three of leaves in tliis pack, to keep the flies off, and
tlie brush held by the Masnad who is urging the he-goat to jump through a hoop in
Beimers 8. (9) A liunchbacked dwarf, mounted on a goat, is driving his spear into the
mouth of a pig crouching on the ground. A woman clasping the stem of a tree with
her r. hand, holds a wreath in her 1. hand. On a cushion in the foreground is the
object which also occurs in nos. (2) and (5).
30a. “ OBER ” OF LEAYES, FEOM THE SAME PACK. Hirth 778.
A later impression, on brownish paper.
From the Bagford collection (Sloane 1044, 545). Transferred from tlie Department
of Printed Books, 1900.
f GAPITAL AND BASE OF A COLUMN. Eeimers 64.
(Eeproduction.)
The composite capital is decorated with acanthus leaves and with a
naked female child, standing on a shell, holding up in both hands the ends
of a veil which falls in a graceful curve behind her back. On the broken
end of the shaft, above the four decorated members of the base and
plinth, are the chisel and upright mallet; on the latter are the initials
P. F.
Photograpli of the impression at Goburg [255 x 184], to which Dr. Koetscliau kindly
called my attention in 1900. Eeimers mentions impressions at Munich and Paris.
This capilal has been reproduced in Hirth’s Formenschatz, 1884, no. 67.
The child strongly resemblts the girl on the pedestal in the five of bells,
no. 30 (8).
Eeimers has described (nos. 62-71) a series of capitals and bases of columns or
pilasters, whicli have all been reproduced either by Hirth, Eeimers or Lange. There is
a complete column [387 x 29], still undescribed, at Erlangen, whicli I would attribute
to Flbtnrr. It ends, like the great column attributed to Diirer, in a turnip root held by
two children ; the latter remind me of Flbtner’s playing-cards.
31. GEOTESQUE PANEL. 1546. P. iii, 256, 29. Eeimers 79.
[180 x 120.] Impression cut out of “ Imperatorum Eomanorum Imagines,” Ziirich,
1559 (see p. 527, no. 2).
Purchased from Messrs. Coluaglii, 1871.
This is the commonest and I est known of all Flbtner’s woodcuts. It belongs to tlic
series of arabesques publisked by R. Wyssenbach in 1549, and again by A. Gesner in
1560, but it was also used in the following books: “ Wunderbarlicige kostliche Gemiilt,”
I. Gessner, Ziiiich, 1566; “ Architectura Antiqua,” J. Bodrner, Ziirich, 1627 (here the
date 1546 has disappeared),