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XVIII.
The Virgin seated by a Wall. 1514 (B. 40).
Photogravure from an impression in the Collection of Mr. G. Mayer.
XIX.
The Virgin with the Child in Swaddling Clothes. 1520 (B. 38).
Photogravure from an impression in the Collection of Mr. G. Mayer.
The Virgin of this engraving (not the Child) has been closely imitated by the Spanish painter,
Alonso Cano, in a well-known picture in the Prado Gallery (No. 670). The pose and drapery are
exactly reproduced; the stone seat is preserved, but not the cushion.
WOODCUTS.
XX.—XXIII.
The Life of the Virgin. Second Portion, B. 80-83. (See Series III. xxv.—xxvm.)
The Birth of the Virgin.
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.
The Marriage of the Virgin.
The Annunciation.
B. 80 and 82 are reproduced from impressions in the Berlin Cabinet; the original of B. 81 is in the
British Museum.* that of B. 83 in the Stuttgart Cabinet.
N the “Marriage” Diirer has reproduced, in the figure with the large head-dress on
the right, one of his charming costume drawings in water-colour of the year 1500, now
in the Albertina, on which he wrote “Also gett man zw Normerck in die kirchn”
(This is how they go to church at Nuremberg).
XXIV.
Death and the Soldier. 1510 (B. 132).
Prom the Stuttgart impression of the first edition.
The two columns of verses to the right of the woodcut are very often found cut off, and
mounted at the foot of the first portion of the poem. The reproduction shows them in their original
position. The second edition, in which the woodcut is very inferior to the first in sharpness
of impression, has the type differently set up, and lacks Diirer’s monogram at the end of the poem.
The later title reads:—
Kein ding hilfft fur den zeitlichen Todt,
Darumb dienent Gott fru vnd spott.
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The Virgin seated by a Wall. 1514 (B. 40).
Photogravure from an impression in the Collection of Mr. G. Mayer.
XIX.
The Virgin with the Child in Swaddling Clothes. 1520 (B. 38).
Photogravure from an impression in the Collection of Mr. G. Mayer.
The Virgin of this engraving (not the Child) has been closely imitated by the Spanish painter,
Alonso Cano, in a well-known picture in the Prado Gallery (No. 670). The pose and drapery are
exactly reproduced; the stone seat is preserved, but not the cushion.
WOODCUTS.
XX.—XXIII.
The Life of the Virgin. Second Portion, B. 80-83. (See Series III. xxv.—xxvm.)
The Birth of the Virgin.
The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.
The Marriage of the Virgin.
The Annunciation.
B. 80 and 82 are reproduced from impressions in the Berlin Cabinet; the original of B. 81 is in the
British Museum.* that of B. 83 in the Stuttgart Cabinet.
N the “Marriage” Diirer has reproduced, in the figure with the large head-dress on
the right, one of his charming costume drawings in water-colour of the year 1500, now
in the Albertina, on which he wrote “Also gett man zw Normerck in die kirchn”
(This is how they go to church at Nuremberg).
XXIV.
Death and the Soldier. 1510 (B. 132).
Prom the Stuttgart impression of the first edition.
The two columns of verses to the right of the woodcut are very often found cut off, and
mounted at the foot of the first portion of the poem. The reproduction shows them in their original
position. The second edition, in which the woodcut is very inferior to the first in sharpness
of impression, has the type differently set up, and lacks Diirer’s monogram at the end of the poem.
The later title reads:—
Kein ding hilfft fur den zeitlichen Todt,
Darumb dienent Gott fru vnd spott.
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