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554 Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
CHRISTOPH ZELL.
Printer and pnblisher, Huremberg; worked about 1534. See
Pauli, “ Beham,” nos. 913-926, for another publication. A woodcut
at Gotha contains liis address, “ bei dem Posenbad.”
12. 1LLUSTRATION TO A POEM BY HANS SACHS, THE YAIN AND
TRANSITORY JOYS OF THIS WORLD.
Outside the gate of a walled pleasure-ground Pleasure (“ Fraw
Yoluptas ”), with butterfly’s wings on her back, is conversing with the
poet. Within the enclosure are men putting the weight, playing fife and
drum, wrestling, fishing, hunting, tilting, dancing and feasting. In the
background is a square tower. Above the woodcut is the title, “ Die
eytel vergengklich Freudt vn wollust diser welt.” Under the woodcut is
the poem, printed in four columns, with the address, “ Gedruckt zu
Nurnberg bej Christoff Zel | 1534.”
[Woodcut, 167 x 284; sheet, 370 x 285.] Good, early impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., 1871.
12 a. THE SAME ILLUSTRATION.
[Sbeet, 185 x 290.] Another edition, with the headiug in the same type, hut
“ vergenklich ” and “ vnd ” for “ vergengklich ” and “ vh.” The woodcut and heading
only, without the poem.
Watermark, small bull’s head.
In the inventory of 1837.
13. THE SIEGE OF A TOWN. Nagl. Mon. iii, 632, 84. Pauli 1453.
[300 x 565.] Late impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Heussner and Lauser, 1873.
There is no reason for supposing that this represents the siege of Wolfenbiittel.
The block is in the Derschau collection (Becker, D 11); repr. Hirth, ii, 8S4. Dr.
Pauli attributes the cut, perhaps rightly, to “ Pseudo-Beham,” but it is not easy to
recognise his style with certainty, owing to tlie unusually small scale of the figures. It
is certainly by the same artist as the cut, no. 12, published by Zell. Tlie illustration to
Judith and Holofernes, a poem dated 3 May, 1533 (no. 7 in “ Hans Sachs im Gewande
seiner Zeit ”), seems also to be by the same hand. The Siege of Yienna, 1530
(Nagler 26), also in the same style, was published by Meldemann (impression at Beriin).
CHRISTOPH ZELL.
Printer and pnblisher, Huremberg; worked about 1534. See
Pauli, “ Beham,” nos. 913-926, for another publication. A woodcut
at Gotha contains liis address, “ bei dem Posenbad.”
12. 1LLUSTRATION TO A POEM BY HANS SACHS, THE YAIN AND
TRANSITORY JOYS OF THIS WORLD.
Outside the gate of a walled pleasure-ground Pleasure (“ Fraw
Yoluptas ”), with butterfly’s wings on her back, is conversing with the
poet. Within the enclosure are men putting the weight, playing fife and
drum, wrestling, fishing, hunting, tilting, dancing and feasting. In the
background is a square tower. Above the woodcut is the title, “ Die
eytel vergengklich Freudt vn wollust diser welt.” Under the woodcut is
the poem, printed in four columns, with the address, “ Gedruckt zu
Nurnberg bej Christoff Zel | 1534.”
[Woodcut, 167 x 284; sheet, 370 x 285.] Good, early impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Colnaghi & Co., 1871.
12 a. THE SAME ILLUSTRATION.
[Sbeet, 185 x 290.] Another edition, with the headiug in the same type, hut
“ vergenklich ” and “ vnd ” for “ vergengklich ” and “ vh.” The woodcut and heading
only, without the poem.
Watermark, small bull’s head.
In the inventory of 1837.
13. THE SIEGE OF A TOWN. Nagl. Mon. iii, 632, 84. Pauli 1453.
[300 x 565.] Late impression.
Purchased from Messrs. Heussner and Lauser, 1873.
There is no reason for supposing that this represents the siege of Wolfenbiittel.
The block is in the Derschau collection (Becker, D 11); repr. Hirth, ii, 8S4. Dr.
Pauli attributes the cut, perhaps rightly, to “ Pseudo-Beham,” but it is not easy to
recognise his style with certainty, owing to tlie unusually small scale of the figures. It
is certainly by the same artist as the cut, no. 12, published by Zell. Tlie illustration to
Judith and Holofernes, a poem dated 3 May, 1533 (no. 7 in “ Hans Sachs im Gewande
seiner Zeit ”), seems also to be by the same hand. The Siege of Yienna, 1530
(Nagler 26), also in the same style, was published by Meldemann (impression at Beriin).