A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . will be found to belong to Germany rather than to Holland; andthe charge on one of them,—two fish back to back, which is rather re-markable, and by no means common, is one of the quarterings of theformer Counts of Wirtemberg, the very district in which I am inclinedto think the work was executed. I moreover fancy that in one of thecuts I can perceive an allusion to the Council of Basle, which in 14)39elected Amadeus of Savoy as Pope, under the title of Felix V, in oppo-sition to Eugene IV. In order to afford those who are better acquai
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . will be found to belong to Germany rather than to Holland; andthe charge on one of them,—two fish back to back, which is rather re-markable, and by no means common, is one of the quarterings of theformer Counts of Wirtemberg, the very district in which I am inclinedto think the work was executed. I moreover fancy that in one of thecuts I can perceive an allusion to the Council of Basle, which in 14)39elected Amadeus of Savoy as Pope, under the title of Felix V, in oppo-sition to Eugene IV. In order to afford those who are better acquaintedwith the subject an opportunity of judging for themselves, and of makingfurther discoveries which may support my opinions if well-founded, orwhich may correct them if erroneous, I shall give copies of all the shieldsof arms which occur in the book. The following cut of four figures—apope, two cardinals, and a bishop—occurs in the upper compartment ofthe nineteenth folio. The shield charged with a black eagle also occursin the same
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