Ottley, William Young: An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving: upon copper and in wood ; with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra to the time of Marc Antonio Raimondi (Band 1) (London, 1816) [Cicognara, 266A]

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37.

The Judgment of
Solomon.

Dicat nunc juste
Dandus matri puer iste

r.

The Last Judgment.

The Amalekite, who
slew Saul, killed by
the order of David.
Ob domini cristum
Sic David judicat istum.

Judicio damnandos reprobos simul atque nephandos.

The Destruction of
Korah, Dathan, and
Abiram.

Hi terre dantur

Quia cristo non famulantur.

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Hell.

Sodom destroyed by
Fire from Heaven.

Ob crimen vite
Traduntur sic Sodomite.

Sic affliguntur penis qui prava sequuntur.

Mr. Dibdin has also inserted a fac-simile of the middle subject of
this leaf at p. xxviii. of the work above mentioned. It is worthy of
remark that the subject is treated in a manner very similar to one
of the alto-relievos of Niccola or Giovanni Pisano on the facade
of the Duomo at Orvieto, executed about 1300.

39. ♦ I* ♦

The Feast of the Chil- Christ bearing the Souls Jacob's Vision of the
dren of Job. of the blessed in his Ladder.

Mantle.

Job nati gaudent Angelus est visus

Quia sic feliciter audent. Jacob in hoc valde gavisus.

O! pater in celis me tecum pascere velis.

The front figure of Christ, in the compartment in the centre, has
a considerable share of grandeur. It is introduced, p. xxix., in
Mr. Dibdin's work. The design of " Jacob's Vision of the Ladder"