Hind, Arthur Mayger; British Museum / Department of Prints and Drawings; Colvin, Sidney [Editor]: Catalogue of early Italian engravings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1) (London: British Museum, 1910)

146 Florentine—Series in Fine and Broad Manners. [C. I.

C. I.
THE PROPHETS.
1. NOAH.
A (Fine manner). • B. 1.—0. 1.—K. 5.
Noah seated on clouds, almost in full face, wearing a long richly
embroidered robe and a conical head-dress, supports the ark with his 1.
hand and points to it with his r. The dove with the olive-branch is
perched on the gable of the ark. Above is a scroll, inscribed noe profeta.
In the lower margin are the following eight verses:—
IbVERbO ETTERNO ECERTO I3TAEILIT0
DALVObER DI8V0 DI8V0 PADRE CHEVENIRE
DEbbE INTVE8T0 TERRE8T0 EbA88O 8IT0
EDE DIN08TRA VMANITA VE8TIRE
EFIA ALTENPO VEDVTO EVDITO
ELARGCHAMENTE 8IFARA 8ENTIRE
BENIGNO EFORTE • PAglENTE EPIO
E88I8ARA V0M0 EVERO IDDIO
f (i) First state (as described).
[178 x 115] Reproduction of a good early impression in the Albertina, Vienna
(Chalc. Soc.).
(ii) Later state (B. III.): The lower portion of the plate with the verses has
been cut off; worn and reworked; numbered in lower r. corner 1.
[Ill x 115] Fair impression with wide margin ; paper discoloured.
Collections : Sykes (884), Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 411.
The ark in this design repeats almost exactly the construction of that in
one of the Picture-Chronicle drawings (fol. 7, S. C. pl. 5).
B (Broad manner). B. 1.
Noah wears a turban, instead of the simple conical head-dress of the
first set; the shape of his beard is altered : on the scroll propheta is read
for profeta ; and there are many alterations in the spelling os the verses
below the print, which now run as follows :—
EbVERBO ETTERNO E CERT0 STABILITO
DALVOEER DISVO PADRE CHE VENIRE
DEBBE INQVESTO TERRESTRE ET BASSO SITO
ETDE DI NOSTRA HVMANITAVE STIRE