A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . he says, at page 735, that the portrait of Varnbuler is the size of nature. * It is supposed that Shakspeare, in alluding to the dozen white luces in MasterShallows coat of arms,—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I,—intended to ridicule Sir ThomasLucy of Charlecotte, Wiltsliire, before whom he is said to have been brought in his youth ona charge of deer-stealing. 272 WOOD ENGRAVING The last of Durers engravings on copper is a portrait of Melancthon,dated 1526, tlie year in which the meek and learned reformer visitedNuremberg. The following i
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . he says, at page 735, that the portrait of Varnbuler is the size of nature. * It is supposed that Shakspeare, in alluding to the dozen white luces in MasterShallows coat of arms,—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I,—intended to ridicule Sir ThomasLucy of Charlecotte, Wiltsliire, before whom he is said to have been brought in his youth ona charge of deer-stealing. 272 WOOD ENGRAVING The last of Durers engravings on copper is a portrait of Melancthon,dated 1526, tlie year in which the meek and learned reformer visitedNuremberg. The following is a reduced copy of his own portrait,perhaps the last drawing that he made on wood. It is probably a goodlikeness of the artist; at any rate it bears a great resemblance to theportrait said to be intended for Durers own in his carving of the namingof St. John, of which some account is given at page 259. The sizeof the original is eleven inches and three-eighths high by ten incheswide, i^.ccording to Bartsch, the earliest impressions have not the arms. and mark, and are inscribed above the border at the top : AlhrechtDurers Conterfeyt—Albert Durers portrait. It would seem that theblock had been preserved for many years subsequent to the date, forI have now before me an impression, on comparatively modern paper,from which it is evident that at the time of its being taken, the blockhad been much corroded by worms. It is probable that between 1522 and 1528 the treatises of whichDurer is the author were chiefly composed. Their Titles are An Essayon the Fortification of Towns and Villages ; Instructions for Measuring IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUEEE. 273 with the Eule and Compass ; and On the Proportions of the HumanBody.* They were all published at Nuremberg witli illustrative wood-cuts ; the first in 1527, and the other two in 1528. It is to thelatter work that Hogarth alludes, in his Analysis of Beauty, whenhe speaks of Albert Durer, Lamozzo, and others, having puzzledmankind wit
Size: 1450px × 1723px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectwoodengraving, bookye
