A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . are most incorrectly drawn, and the action of the animals representedin a manner which is by no means natural Though it is not unlikely IN THE TIME OF ALBEUT DtJllER. 295 tliat Hans Burgmair was capable of drawing both a stout, heavy horse,and a long-backed, thin-quartered, lean one, I cannot persuade mj^selfthat he would, in almost every instance, draw the hoofs and legs of theone correctly, and those of the other with great inaccuracy. The cut onthe opposite page and the five next following, of single figures, copiedon a reduced scal
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . are most incorrectly drawn, and the action of the animals representedin a manner which is by no means natural Though it is not unlikely IN THE TIME OF ALBEUT DtJllER. 295 tliat Hans Burgmair was capable of drawing both a stout, heavy horse,and a long-backed, thin-quartered, lean one, I cannot persuade mj^selfthat he would, in almost every instance, draw the hoofs and legs of theone correctly, and those of the other with great inaccuracy. The cut onthe opposite page and the five next following, of single figures, copiedon a reduced scale from the Triumphs, will exemplify the precedingobservations. The numbers are those printed on the cuts, and they all,except one, appear to correspond with the French descriptions in thetext. The preceding cut is from that marked No. 15. The mark ofHans Burgmair is on the ornamental breast-plate, as an English saddlerwould call it, that passes across the horses chest. This figure, inthe original cut, carries a tablet suspended from a staff, of which the. • /, >? ?>- ^^^r-^- From No. 65. Apparently not drawn by Burgmair. lower part only is perceived in the copy, as it has not been thoughtnecessary to give the tablet and a large scroll which were intendedto contain inscriptions.* The description of the subject is to thefollowing effect: After the chase, comes a figure on horseback, bearinga tablet, on which shall be written the five charges of the court,— * In all the blocks, the tablets and scrolls, and the upper part of banners intendedto receive verses and inscriptions, were left unengraved. In order that the appearance ofthe cuts might not be injured, the black ground, intended for the letters, was cut away iamost of the tablets and scrolls, in the edition of 1796. 296 WOOD ENGKAVING that is, of the butler, the cook, the barber, the tailor, and the shoemaker;and Eberbach shall be the under-marshal of the household, and carrythe tablet. The cut on page 295 is a redu
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