A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . OGRESS AND DECLINE OF of art, there could not be a doubt of his having been a very indifferent;wood engraver, for though there be considerable expression of characterin the drawing of the head, the cut is executed in 9, very inferior styleof art. The cuts in Cranmers Catechism, a small octavo, printed in 1548,have been ascribed to Holbein; but out of the whole number, twenty-nine, including the cut on the reverse of the title, there are only twowhich contain his mark. In the others the manner of pencilling isso unlike that of these two
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . OGRESS AND DECLINE OF of art, there could not be a doubt of his having been a very indifferent;wood engraver, for though there be considerable expression of characterin the drawing of the head, the cut is executed in 9, very inferior styleof art. The cuts in Cranmers Catechism, a small octavo, printed in 1548,have been ascribed to Holbein; but out of the whole number, twenty-nine, including the cut on the reverse of the title, there are only twowhich contain his mark. In the others the manner of pencilling isso unlike that of these two, and the drawing and composition bear so• little resemblance to Holbeins usual style, that I do not believe them tohave been of his designing. In the cut on the reverse of the title,the subject is Cranmer presenting the Bible to Edward VI.; the others,twenty-eight in number, but containing only twenty-six differentsubjects,—as two of them are repeated,—are illustrative of differentpassages of Scripture cited in the work The following cut is one of. those designed by Holbein. It occurs at folio CL as an illustration of the fyrst sermon. A declaration of the fyrst peticion [of the LordsPrayer]. Holbeins initials, H. H.—though the cross stroke of the firstH is broken away—are perceived on the edge of what seems to be abook, to the left of the figure praying. The other cut, designed by Holbein, and which contains his name at * The following is the title of this scarce little volume. Catechismus, that is to say, ashorte instraction into Christian religion for the singuler commoditie and profyte of childreand yong people. Set forth by the mooste reverende father in God, Thomas Archbyshop ofCanterbury, primate of all Englande and Metropohtane.—Gualterus Lynne excudebat, the end of the book, under a cut of Christ with a child before him, is the colophon: Imprynted at London, in S. Jhones Streete, by Nycolas Hyll, for Gwalter Lynne dwellyngon Somers kaye, by Byllyng
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