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)

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Early German ancl Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.

XIII.—WOODCUTS OF WHICH ONLY THE PUBLISHER’S
NAME IS KNOWN.

WOLFGANG DRECHSEL.

Briefmaler, Nnremberg; worked about 1540 (?); best known as
the publisher of one of the later eclitions of Diirer’s woodcut portrait
(see p. 360).

1. A FEMALE BATH ATTENDANT.

A woman, wearing a hat of plaited straw and a single white garment,
leaving her arms and legs bare, stands, three-quarters to r., holding a
wooden bucket in her 1. hand and a smaller one of the same shape in her
r. hand. In the upper r. corner are printed the following verses :

“ Die Badmeydt spricht

Ich Badmeidt steh allhie allein

Mit blossen arrnen, vnd weissen bein
Auff die leut thu ich achtung haben
Desz gleichen auff die jungen knaben
Da bin ich mit mein wasser geschwindt
Jungen vnd alt, die kleine Kindt
Den zwage ich, vnd reib sie ausz
Das sie gehn sauber heim zu hausz.

Zu Nurnberg, bey Wolff
Drechssel.”

[Wooclcut, 360 x 180; skeet, 390 x 280.] Early impression, in brilliant preser-
ration, coloured witli stencils, as is most apparent in the juxtaposition of two flesh-tints.
Two watemarks, a dog (?) and a small shield and crown.

Purchased from Mr. Tross, 1865.

HANS GLASER.

Briefmaler, Nuremberg; worked about 1540-1560; lived at
various periods “ am Panersperg,” “ bey dem Ochssenfelder,” “ auff
den Sclmieltzhiitten,” and “ liinter S. Lorentzen auff dem Platz.” The
last address is found on broadsides at Gotha dated 1554-1556. For
other woodcuts published by him, see pp. 305, 329, 360, 497.