A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . y Phillery are not of very great rarity ;there are two in the Print Eoom at the British Museum, and fromone of them the reduced copy in the following page has been care-fully made. Any person, however, slightly acquainted with the progress of woodengraving could scarcely fail to pronounce that the original of this cutmust have been executed subsequent to 1500, and in all probabilitysubsequent to the cuts of the Triumphal Procession of Maximilian,to the general style of which, so far as relates to the manner ofengraving, it bears consid
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . y Phillery are not of very great rarity ;there are two in the Print Eoom at the British Museum, and fromone of them the reduced copy in the following page has been care-fully made. Any person, however, slightly acquainted with the progress of woodengraving could scarcely fail to pronounce that the original of this cutmust have been executed subsequent to 1500, and in all probabilitysubsequent to the cuts of the Triumphal Procession of Maximilian,to the general style of which, so far as relates to the manner ofengraving, it bears considerable resemblance. The costume of thefigures, too, also proves that it does not belong to the fifteenth century; 812 WOOD ENGRAVING and on carefully examining the inscription, a person accustomed totlie old German or Dutch characters would be more likely to read Willem than Phillery as the name of the artist. To one of theimpressions in the British Museum a former owner, after extractingHeinekens account, has appended the following remark : Tliis is the. print above described. There seems to be an inconsiderable mistakein the name, which I take to be DViUery. It is to be observed thatin the original, as in the preceding copy, the inscription is engravedon wood, and not set up in type; and that consequently the firstcharacter of the doubtful name is rather indistinct. It is however IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUEER. 313 most probably a W; and the last is certainly an m, with a flourishat its tail. The intermediate letters lUe are plain enough, and if thefirst be supposed to be a W, and the last an m, we have the nameWillem,—a very probable prenomen for a Dutch wood engraver of thesixteenth century. The inscription when carefully examined is literallyas follows : Gheprint Tantwerpen By my Willem de mistake of Phillery for Willem, or William, and thus givinga heretofore unheard-of name to the list of artists, is not unlike thatof Scopoli the naturalist, who, in
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