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and the pedestal, of far inferior merit, must have bcen added at a later period. It formerly stood
in the so-called Schiessgraben (Shootinghouse) whither the citizens resorted, to practise the amuse-
ment of cross -bow shooting, and is admirably adapted for the place of its erection. It is at
present preserved in the Royal School of Art. It may well excite our astonishment how Vischer
contrived to unite in this instance the noble simplicity of the antique, with the truth and labour
of a model, and produced a work equal to any of the same description.
PLATE II.
Marys parting from Iier Son.
We find this 2 feet high bas-relief, carved with great skill from fine hard sand-stone, in the
Egloffstein chapel in St. James’s church, adorning the burial-place of Jobst Truchsess, knight os
the Teutonic Order who died 1532, and is represented kneeling by the fablet in the costume os
his Order. On the band proceeding from Mary are the bcautifully affectionate words (in verse),
Oh, my best-beloved Jesus!
Yet a little while delay thy sufferings
Think, what deep sorrow Ifeel for thee.
On that from Jesus,
Mother, Igo to prepare a place
For thee, and every one that trusteth in me!
In how impressive a männer the parting-scene is conceived, our copy may show. The piece
it seif, agreeing in many respects with a simüar one by Vischer, the drapery treated with a
painter’s freedom, the surrounding Ornaments in the Italian style — all may justisy our designa-
ting this work as one worthy of being classed under those of Vischer.
and the pedestal, of far inferior merit, must have bcen added at a later period. It formerly stood
in the so-called Schiessgraben (Shootinghouse) whither the citizens resorted, to practise the amuse-
ment of cross -bow shooting, and is admirably adapted for the place of its erection. It is at
present preserved in the Royal School of Art. It may well excite our astonishment how Vischer
contrived to unite in this instance the noble simplicity of the antique, with the truth and labour
of a model, and produced a work equal to any of the same description.
PLATE II.
Marys parting from Iier Son.
We find this 2 feet high bas-relief, carved with great skill from fine hard sand-stone, in the
Egloffstein chapel in St. James’s church, adorning the burial-place of Jobst Truchsess, knight os
the Teutonic Order who died 1532, and is represented kneeling by the fablet in the costume os
his Order. On the band proceeding from Mary are the bcautifully affectionate words (in verse),
Oh, my best-beloved Jesus!
Yet a little while delay thy sufferings
Think, what deep sorrow Ifeel for thee.
On that from Jesus,
Mother, Igo to prepare a place
For thee, and every one that trusteth in me!
In how impressive a männer the parting-scene is conceived, our copy may show. The piece
it seif, agreeing in many respects with a simüar one by Vischer, the drapery treated with a
painter’s freedom, the surrounding Ornaments in the Italian style — all may justisy our designa-
ting this work as one worthy of being classed under those of Vischer.