A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . on le Allegoric, [Venezia, 1497,] with numerous beautifulwood-cuts, apparently by the artist who executed the Poliphilo, printedby Aldus in 1499. The wood-cuts in the Ovid of 1497 are as inferiorto those in Poliphilo as the commonest cuts in childrens school-booksare inferior to the beautiful wood-cuts in Eogerss Pleasures of Memory,printed in 1812, which were designed by Stothard and engraved byClennell. It is but fair to add, that the cuts used in the Ovid of 1497,printed by the brothers De Lignano, cannot be the same as those in the
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . on le Allegoric, [Venezia, 1497,] with numerous beautifulwood-cuts, apparently by the artist who executed the Poliphilo, printedby Aldus in 1499. The wood-cuts in the Ovid of 1497 are as inferiorto those in Poliphilo as the commonest cuts in childrens school-booksare inferior to the beautiful wood-cuts in Eogerss Pleasures of Memory,printed in 1812, which were designed by Stothard and engraved byClennell. It is but fair to add, that the cuts used in the Ovid of 1497,printed by the brothers De Lignano, cannot be the same as those in theOvid of 1509 referred to by Mr. Ottley; for though the subjects may benearly the same, the cuts in the latter edition are larger than thosein the former, and have besides an engravers mark which is not to beseen in any of the cuts in the edition of 1497- The five following cuts are fac-similes traced line for line from theoriginals in Poliphilo. In the first. Mercury is seen interfering to saveCupid from the anger of Venus, who has been punishing him and. anger IS plucking the feathers from his wings. The cause of herexplained by the figure of Mars behind the net in whicli he and Venushad been inclosed by A^ulcan. Love had been the cause of his mothersmisfortune. 222 WOOD ENGKAVING In the following cut Cupid is represented as brought by Mercury before Jove, who in the text, in Athica lingua, addresses the God of Love, as XTMOirATKTS KAI niKPOS—at once sweet and bitter. In the inscription in the cut, AAAA is substituted for KAI. SYjyioirAT KYSAAAAFIKPO
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