A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . eBuxheim St. Gliiistopher in the possession of M. De Birkenstock at Vienna. t There is every reason in the world to suppose that this wood-cut was executed either inNuremberg or Buxheim is situated almost in the very heart of Suabia, the circlein which we find the earliest wood engravers established. Buxheim is about thirty Englishmiles from Ulm, forty-four from- Augsburg, and one hundred and fifteen from Murr does not notice the pretensions of Ulm, which on his own grounds are stronger thanthose of his native
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . eBuxheim St. Gliiistopher in the possession of M. De Birkenstock at Vienna. t There is every reason in the world to suppose that this wood-cut was executed either inNuremberg or Buxheim is situated almost in the very heart of Suabia, the circlein which we find the earliest wood engravers established. Buxheim is about thirty Englishmiles from Ulm, forty-four from- Augsburg, and one hundred and fifteen from Murr does not notice the pretensions of Ulm, which on his own grounds are stronger thanthose of his native city, Nuremberg. E 50 PllOGRESS OF P. Krismer, who was librarian of the convent of Buxheim, and who showetlthe vohime in wliich they are pasted to Heineken, writes to Von Murr tothe following effect: It will not be superfluous if I here point out amark, by which, in my opinion, old wood engravings may with certainty-be distinguished from those of a later period. It is this : In the oldestwood-cuts ordy do we perceive that the engraver [Formschneider] has. frequently omitted certain parts, leaving them to be afterwards filled uj)by the card-colourer [Briefmaler]. In the St. Christopher there is nosuch deficiency, although there is in the other cut which is pasted on theinside of the fore covering of the same volume, and which, I doubt not,was executed at the same time as the former. It represents the salu-tation of the Virgin by the angel Gabriel, or, as it is also called, theAnnunciation; and, from the omission of the colours, the upper part ^^ooD ekgeavino. 51 of tlie body of the kueeling Yirgiu appears naked, except where it iscovered with her mantle. Her inner dress had been left to be added bythe pencil of the card-colourer. In another wood-cut of the same kind,representing St. Jerome doing penance before a small crncifix placed ona hill, we see with surprise that the saint, together with the instrumentsof penance, which are lying near him, and a whole forest beside, aresus
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