A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ^^^=^^^^&^. From No. S3. Apparently not drawn by Burgmair. to 84. This figure is the last of the three, who, in the original, arerepresented bearing banners containing the arms of Malines, Salinsand Antwerp. * The substance of almost every rhyme and inscription is, that the person who bears therhyme-tablet or scroll has derived great improvement in his art or profession from theinstructions or suggestions of the emperor. Huntsmen, falconers, trumpeters, organists,fencing-masters, ballet-masters, toumiers, and jousters, all acknowledge
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . ^^^=^^^^&^. From No. S3. Apparently not drawn by Burgmair. to 84. This figure is the last of the three, who, in the original, arerepresented bearing banners containing the arms of Malines, Salinsand Antwerp. * The substance of almost every rhyme and inscription is, that the person who bears therhyme-tablet or scroll has derived great improvement in his art or profession from theinstructions or suggestions of the emperor. Huntsmen, falconers, trumpeters, organists,fencing-masters, ballet-masters, toumiers, and jousters, all acknowledge their obligations inthis respect to Maximilian. For the wit and humour of the jesters and the natural fools, theemperor, with great forbearance, takes to himself no credit; and Anthony von Dornstett,the leader of the drummers and fifers, is one of the few whose art he has not improved. ^98 WOOD ENGRAVING The following figure, who is given with his rhyme-tablet in full, iscopied from the cut numbered 27. This jovial-looking personage, as we. From No. 27. With Buigmairs mark. learn from the description, is the Will Somers of Maximilians court, andhe figures as the leader of the professed jesters and the natural fools, who t^ THE TIME OF ALBERT DUREE. 299 appear in all ages to have been the subjects of pleasant muth. Theinstructions to the painter are as follows: Then shall come one onhorseback habited like a jester, and carrying a rhyme-tablet for thejesters and natural fools; and he shall be Conrad von der Eosen. The
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