The Dürer Society (1.1898)

WOODCUTS.

XV.

A. Durer. Samson and the Lion, b. 2.

Reproduction from the impression in the British Museum (Mitehell Collection). (17^ x nin.)
HIS is one of the large woodcuts which form a distinct group at the com-

A. Durer.
A. Durer.
'Reproductions from the originals (y% x 7^in.) in the collection of Mr. G. Mayer, formerly in the
c/lshburnham Library.
XVIII. \/
A. Durer. The Virgin Crowned by Angels, 15-18. b. 101.
Reproduction from the original (ii^x8#in.) in the ^British Museum (Mitchell Collection).


mencement of Durer’s work on wood, before the publication of the Apocalypse.
Of this group it is not one of the earliest, and may be dated perhaps
about 1497.
XVIA XVIIV
The Beheading of St, John the Baptist, 1510. b. 125.
Salome with the Head of the Bantist, ku. b. 126.

XIX. v
A. Durer. Portrait of Ulrich Varnbuler, 1722. b. 157.
Reproduction from the original (17 x i2^in.) in the British Museum, from the Mitchell Collection.
The drawing of Varnbuler from which the woodcut was made is in the Albertina. Varnbuler
was a learned friend of Pirckheimer and Erasmus, who had been, since 1707, Protonotary of the
Supreme Court of the Empire, and became Chancellor in 1731. Durer probably drew his portrait
while the Diet was sitting at Nuremberg in 1722. It is by far the finest of his portraits on wood.
The impressions in chiaroscuro, formerly much prized by collectors, are of quite late date (17th
century.)

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