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B. III.]
Miscellaneous.
123
themselves on boats, tubs, chests and rafts; in front, towards the middle,
a boat has capsized; further 1. is seen Noah’s Ark, with five men and
two boys clambering on the outside; quite in front on the same side
are two men swimming on horseback. In the sky, which is covered
with cross shadings, are seen six heads os Winds with ssying hair and
blowing mouths.
[268 x (400-405)] Fair early impression from the first state, and torn and made up
in ink in several places along lower margin, and with some patches torn out r.
Watermark 4e.
Collections: Sykes, Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 232.
Other impressions: Hamburg (sirst state), Vienna (Alb.), Rome (Vatican, vol.
xiv. 46).
Reproductions : Illustr. B. III. 1; Chalc. Soc. 1890, No. 5.
From the size of the plate and the entry in the Rosselli inventory, it may
be inferred that this subject was engraved on the back of the same plate as the
Adoration of the Magi (B. III. 6).
In the second state (of which there is an impression in the Kunsthalle,
Hamburg) the plate is reworked, rain is added in the sky and further shading
added in several places, e.g. on the raft in the centre between the arms and
legs of the man kneeling 1. The design has doubtless been suggested in its
general character, though not in any of its details, by the celebrated fresco of
Paolo Uccello in the Green Cloister of S. Maria Novella at Florence.
2. THE DELUGE: SECOND VERSION.
B. xiii, 72, 3 (copy).—Archiv fur die zeichnenden Kunste, xvi (1870), 92, 6
(Wiederholung).—K. ii. 1 (Wiederholung).
The composition repeats in essentials that os the preceding number,
but reverses the relative positions of the group with the capsized boat
and the man on the chest: both these are also placed surther back, and
the two figures seen in the former print swimming behind the capsized
boat are here put quite in the foreground. Above, the six heads os the
Winds on a shaded background are replaced along the upper margin by a
belt of clouds with only two Winds r. and 1., while between the clouds
and the sea stretches a light portion os sky crossed by rain. The
dimensions are larger than the preceding plate.
(ii) Second state (with archa noe inscribed on the ark, and rain descending).
(a) [293 x 434] Good impression : the paper while damp has received a set-off from
a proof sheet with the text for four pages of an octavo book: slightly torn and
made up in ink lower r. corner. Watermark 17a.
Purchased 1865. 8. 12. 88.
Other impressions : Paris (B. N.), Berlin.
Reproduction : Illustr. B. III. 3.
t(b) Reproduction of a good impression of the second state in Cambridge, placed here
to show the work which is somewhat blurred by the impress of text in (a).
The first state (of which the unique impression is in the Kunsthalle,
Hamburg) only differs from the second in having no inscription on the ark.
To judge from the size of the plate and the entry in the Rosselli inventory,
this subject was engraved on the back of the same plate as the Temple of
Solomon (B. III. 4). There is a drawing on vellum in Hamburg corresponding
with this second version of the subject. It is probably an early copy of the
engraving (see p. 101).
Miscellaneous.
123
themselves on boats, tubs, chests and rafts; in front, towards the middle,
a boat has capsized; further 1. is seen Noah’s Ark, with five men and
two boys clambering on the outside; quite in front on the same side
are two men swimming on horseback. In the sky, which is covered
with cross shadings, are seen six heads os Winds with ssying hair and
blowing mouths.
[268 x (400-405)] Fair early impression from the first state, and torn and made up
in ink in several places along lower margin, and with some patches torn out r.
Watermark 4e.
Collections: Sykes, Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 232.
Other impressions: Hamburg (sirst state), Vienna (Alb.), Rome (Vatican, vol.
xiv. 46).
Reproductions : Illustr. B. III. 1; Chalc. Soc. 1890, No. 5.
From the size of the plate and the entry in the Rosselli inventory, it may
be inferred that this subject was engraved on the back of the same plate as the
Adoration of the Magi (B. III. 6).
In the second state (of which there is an impression in the Kunsthalle,
Hamburg) the plate is reworked, rain is added in the sky and further shading
added in several places, e.g. on the raft in the centre between the arms and
legs of the man kneeling 1. The design has doubtless been suggested in its
general character, though not in any of its details, by the celebrated fresco of
Paolo Uccello in the Green Cloister of S. Maria Novella at Florence.
2. THE DELUGE: SECOND VERSION.
B. xiii, 72, 3 (copy).—Archiv fur die zeichnenden Kunste, xvi (1870), 92, 6
(Wiederholung).—K. ii. 1 (Wiederholung).
The composition repeats in essentials that os the preceding number,
but reverses the relative positions of the group with the capsized boat
and the man on the chest: both these are also placed surther back, and
the two figures seen in the former print swimming behind the capsized
boat are here put quite in the foreground. Above, the six heads os the
Winds on a shaded background are replaced along the upper margin by a
belt of clouds with only two Winds r. and 1., while between the clouds
and the sea stretches a light portion os sky crossed by rain. The
dimensions are larger than the preceding plate.
(ii) Second state (with archa noe inscribed on the ark, and rain descending).
(a) [293 x 434] Good impression : the paper while damp has received a set-off from
a proof sheet with the text for four pages of an octavo book: slightly torn and
made up in ink lower r. corner. Watermark 17a.
Purchased 1865. 8. 12. 88.
Other impressions : Paris (B. N.), Berlin.
Reproduction : Illustr. B. III. 3.
t(b) Reproduction of a good impression of the second state in Cambridge, placed here
to show the work which is somewhat blurred by the impress of text in (a).
The first state (of which the unique impression is in the Kunsthalle,
Hamburg) only differs from the second in having no inscription on the ark.
To judge from the size of the plate and the entry in the Rosselli inventory,
this subject was engraved on the back of the same plate as the Temple of
Solomon (B. III. 4). There is a drawing on vellum in Hamburg corresponding
with this second version of the subject. It is probably an early copy of the
engraving (see p. 101).