A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . occursin one of the illustrations in the Wise King. Hans Baldung Griin wasborn at Gemund in Suabia, and studied at Nuremberg under AlbertDurer. He excelled as a painter; and the wood-cuts which contain his * Heineken ranks the foDowing in the class of little mmters : Henry Aldgrever, AlbertAltdorffer, Bartholomew Behaim, Hans Sebald Behaim, Hans Binck, Henry Groerting,George Penez, and Virgil Solis. Most of them were engravers on copper. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEEE. 321 mark are mostly designed with great spirit. The earliest wood engr
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . occursin one of the illustrations in the Wise King. Hans Baldung Griin wasborn at Gemund in Suabia, and studied at Nuremberg under AlbertDurer. He excelled as a painter; and the wood-cuts which contain his * Heineken ranks the foDowing in the class of little mmters : Henry Aldgrever, AlbertAltdorffer, Bartholomew Behaim, Hans Sebald Behaim, Hans Binck, Henry Groerting,George Penez, and Virgil Solis. Most of them were engravers on copper. IN THE TIME OF ALBEET DUEEE. 321 mark are mostly designed with great spirit. The earliest wood engravingthat contains his mark is a frontispiece to a volume of sermons with thedate 1508; and the latest is a group of horses, engraved in a hard, stiffmanner, with the name Balduxg and the date 1534* He chieflyresided at Strasburg, where he died in 1545. He is mentioned byDurer, in his Journal, by the name of Griin Hannsen. We may here conveniently introduce fac-similes on a reduced scaleof two rather interesting wood engravings given by Dr. Dibdin in his. Jjibliomania, and copied from an early folio volume, entitled Bevelationesofjehstes sanctce Brigittce de Suecia, printed at Nuremberg by AnthonyKoberger, MCCCXXI. mensis Septembris, which some read 1500, on the21st of September, others 1521, in the month of September. The firstof these cuts is curious as representing the simplicity of an* ancientreading room, \vith its three-legged joint stool, such as is so prettilydescribed by Cowper, Jask, I. v. 19; the other cut describes a punish- * The following curious testimony respecting a lock of Albert Durers hair, which hadformerly been in the possession of Hans Baldung Griin, is translated from an article inMeusels Neue INIiscellaneen, 1799. The lock of hair and the document were then in thepossession of HeiT H. S. Hiisgen of Frankfort on the j\Iayn : Herein is the hair which w^ascut from the head of that ingenious and celebrated painter Albert Durer, after his death atNuremberg,
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