A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Mes efperitz font attendriz,Et ma uie fen ua tout mes longz iours font amolndrizPlus ne me refte quun tombeau. The above cut is a copy of the thirty-third, the Old Man—Der Altman—whom Death leads in confiding imbecility to the grave, while ho 342 FtTRTHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF pretends to support him and to amuse him with the music of a text and verses are given as they stand in the original. The following cut is a copy of the thirty-sixth, the Duchess—DieHertzoginn. In this cut, as has been previously observed,
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . Mes efperitz font attendriz,Et ma uie fen ua tout mes longz iours font amolndrizPlus ne me refte quun tombeau. The above cut is a copy of the thirty-third, the Old Man—Der Altman—whom Death leads in confiding imbecility to the grave, while ho 342 FtTRTHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF pretends to support him and to amuse him with the music of a text and verses are given as they stand in the original. The following cut is a copy of the thirty-sixth, the Duchess—DieHertzoginn. In this cut, as has been previously observed, there aretwo figures of Death ; one rouses her from the bed—where she appearsto have been indulging in an afternoon nap—by pulling off the coverlet, De lectulo fuper quern afcendi =fti non defcendes, fed raortemorieris. I I I I REG. Du lict fus lequel as monteNe defcendras a ton Mort taura tantoft dompte,Et en brief te uiendra faifir. while the other treats her to a tune on the violin. On the frame of thebed, or couch, to the left, near the bottom of the cut, is seen the markJL which has not a little increased the difficulty of arriving at anyclear and unquestionable conclusion with respect to the designer orengraver of those cuts. The text and the verses are given literally, asin the two preceding specimens. WOOD ENGRAVING. 343 The following cut, the Child—Das lung Kint—is a copy of thethirty-ninth, and the last but two in the original edition. Deathhaving been represented in the preceding cuts as beguiling men andwomen in court and council-chamber, in bed-room and hall, in streetand field, by sea and by land, is here represented as visiting thedilapidated cottage of the poor, and, while the mother is engagedin cooking, seizing her youngest child. Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens temporereplet
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