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.—Flotner.

541

34. A LADY AND GENTLEMAN. Kepr. Hirth, i, 56-

The lady wears a crown, the gentleman a wreath; both look straight
before them.

35. A LADY AND GENTLEMAN. Repr. Hirth, i, 59.

The lady wears a wide-brimmed hat; the gentleman holds his cap in
his 1. hand ; both look before them.

[c. 240 x 190.] Uniforra, old impressions,'but not early. Watermark of nos. 33, 34, a
small eagle; of no. 35, an orh in a shield, under it the letter A.

In the inyentory of 1837.

30. A CARICATURE.

A deformed fool, in cap and bells, with similar bells at the end of his
long, pointed shoes, bends forward, leaning on crutches, and carries in
both hands a cushion on which are two wind instruments and a heap of
ordure. Over the latter is the letter S. A goose stands on the fool’s
head and stretches out its beak towards the filth. Single, wide border.

[232 x 305.] Good, old impression. On the back is the ornamental design, p. 542,
no. 1.

In the inyentory of 1837.

A coarse, but yigorous piece of work. The object carried on the cushion suggests
Flotner’s handiwork, but another explanation might doubtless be found for its presence.
There is no other reason for connecting this subject with Flotner’s name.

Another undescribed caricature which I attribute with more confidence to Flotner
is at Gotha (Sammelband ii, 12). It represents a man carrying a banner with a spade
and heap of excrement on it, standing on a pig with a unicorn’s horn; behind him is a
deyil holding a pair of spectacles [273 x 190] coloured ; three columns of verses below
the woodcut.