A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hers have supposed to be Wolgemuths, toWenceslaus of Olmutz, an artist of whom nothing is positively known. X This subject has also been engraved by Israel Von Mecken, and by an artist supposedto be Wenceslaus of Olmutz. It is probable that those artists have copied Durers the globe in Israel Von Meckens plate the letters are 0. G. B. 240 WOOD ENGRAVING much superior to any series of wood engravings tliat preceded them;and their execution, though coarse, is free and bold. They are not equal,in point of well-contrasted ligh
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . hers have supposed to be Wolgemuths, toWenceslaus of Olmutz, an artist of whom nothing is positively known. X This subject has also been engraved by Israel Von Mecken, and by an artist supposedto be Wenceslaus of Olmutz. It is probable that those artists have copied Durers the globe in Israel Von Meckens plate the letters are 0. G. B. 240 WOOD ENGRAVING much superior to any series of wood engravings tliat preceded them;and their execution, though coarse, is free and bold. They are not equal,in point of well-contrasted light and shade, to some of Durers laterdesigns on wood ; but considering them as his first essays in drawing onwood, they are not unworthy of his reputation. They appear as if theyhad been drawn on the block with a pen and ink ; and though cross-hatching is to be found in all of them, this mode of indicating a shade^or obtaining colour, is much less frequently employed than in some ofhis later productions. The following is a reduced copy of one of the cuts,. No. 11, which is illustrative of the twelfth chapter of lievelations, verses1—-i : And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothedwith the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And there appeared another wonder in heaven ; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, andseven crowns upon his heads. And liis tail drew the third part of IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DUEEE. 241 the stars of heaven, and ditl cast them to the earth; and the dragonstood before the woman. In 1502 a pirated edition of those cuts was published at Strasburgby Jerome Greff, who describes himself as a painter of Frankfort. In1511 Durer published a second edition of the originals ; and on the backof the last cut but one is a caution addressed to the plagiary, informinghim of the Emperors order, prohibiting any one to copy the cuts or tosell the spurious impressions within the limits of the
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