A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . mblematic of the promised peaceof Christs kingdom and of the destruction of the power of Satan : Nolion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shallnot be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there.* In the right-hand corner at the top is the shield of the arms of Saxony ; and to theleft, also at the top, is another of Cranachs marks—a shield with twoswords crossed ; in the right-hand corner at the bottom is a third mark,—the figure of a kind of dragon with a ring in its mouth. The size of theoriginal cut is
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . mblematic of the promised peaceof Christs kingdom and of the destruction of the power of Satan : Nolion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shallnot be found there ; but the redeemed shall walk there.* In the right-hand corner at the top is the shield of the arms of Saxony ; and to theleft, also at the top, is another of Cranachs marks—a shield with twoswords crossed ; in the right-hand corner at the bottom is a third mark,—the figure of a kind of dragon with a ring in its mouth. The size of theoriginal cut is thirteen inches and one-fourth high by nine inches andone-fourth wide. • Isaiah, chapter xxxv. verse 9. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEEE. 277 Cranach was much esteemed in his own country as a painter, andseveral of his pictures are still regarded with admiration. He was ingreat favour with John Frederick, Elector of Saxony,* and at one periodof his life was one of the magistrates of Wittenberg. He died atWeimar, on 16th October 1553, aged Another eminent painter who has been classed with Durer andCranach as a wood engraver is Hans Burgmair, who was born atAugsburg about 1473. The mark of this artist is to be found on a * One of the largest wood-cuts designed by Cranach is a subject representing the baptismof some saint; and having on one side a portrait of Frederick, Elector of Saxony, and onthe other a portrait of Luther. The block has consisted of three pieces, and from theimpressions it seems as if the parts containing the portraits of the elector and Luther hadbeen added after the central part had been finislied. The piece altogether is comparativelyworthless in design, and is very indifferently engraved. 278 WOOD ENGRAVING great number of wood engravings, but beyond this fact there is not theleast reason to suppose that he ever engraved a single block. To thosewho have described Burgmair as a wood engraver from this circumstanceonly, a most satisfactory an
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