A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . who assists to bear the cross, appears to be the twin-brother of St. Josephin the Sojourn in Egypt. The figure of Christ, bowed down with theweight of the cross, is well drawn, and his face is strongly expressive ofsorrow. Behind Simon the Cyrenian are the Virgin and St. John ; andunder the gateway a man with a haggard visage is perceived carrying aladder Mith his head between the steps. Tlie artists mark is at thebottom of the cut. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEER. 240 The subject of the cut on page 250, from Christs Passion, representsthe
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . who assists to bear the cross, appears to be the twin-brother of St. Josephin the Sojourn in Egypt. The figure of Christ, bowed down with theweight of the cross, is well drawn, and his face is strongly expressive ofsorrow. Behind Simon the Cyrenian are the Virgin and St. John ; andunder the gateway a man with a haggard visage is perceived carrying aladder Mith his head between the steps. Tlie artists mark is at thebottom of the cut. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEER. 240 The subject of the cut on page 250, from Christs Passion, representsthe descent into hell and the liberation of the ancestors. The massivegates of the abode of sin and death have been burst open, and the bannerof the cross waves triumphant. Among those who liave already beenliberated from the pit of darkness are Eve, who has her back turnedtowards the spectator, and Adam, who in his right hand holds an tire symbol of his fall, and with his left supports a cross, the emblem ofhis redemption. Inthe front is Christ aiding others of the ancestors toascend from the pit, to the great dismay of the demons whose realm isinvaded. A horrid monster, with a head like that of a boar surmountedwith a horn, aims a blow at the Eedeemer with a kind of rude lance;while another, a hideous compound of things tliat swim, and walk, andflv, sounds a note of alarm to arouse his kindred fiends. On a stone, 250 WOOD ENGRAVING above the entrance to the pit, is the date 1510 ; and Durers mark isperceived on another stone immediately before the figure of Christ-This cut, with the exception of the frequent cross-hatching, is designedmore in the style and spirit of the artists illustrations of the Apocalypse,than in the manner of the rest of the series to which it belongs.
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