A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . letters M. I. Ches., an abbreviation probably of Mater Jesu Christi,or if German, Mutter lesus Christus.*!- From the appearance of the back of this cut, as if it had been rul)bed * Von Murf, Jolittial, 2 Thell^ S. , 106. t St. Bridget was a favotirite saint in Germany, where many religions of the rule of St. Saviour, introduced hy her, were founded. A foho vohime, containing the hfe, revelations, and legends of St. Bridget, Avas published by A. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1502, with the following title : Das pucli der Himl
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . letters M. I. Ches., an abbreviation probably of Mater Jesu Christi,or if German, Mutter lesus Christus.*!- From the appearance of the back of this cut, as if it had been rul)bed * Von Murf, Jolittial, 2 Thell^ S. , 106. t St. Bridget was a favotirite saint in Germany, where many religions of the rule of St. Saviour, introduced hy her, were founded. A foho vohime, containing the hfe, revelations, and legends of St. Bridget, Avas published by A. Koberger, Nuremberg, 1502, with the following title : Das pucli der Himlischen offenbarung der Heiligen wittibeu Birgitte von dem Kunigreich Schweden. V >If* » V. 52 PROGEESS OF smooth with a hurnisher or rubber, tliere can be little doubt of theimpression having been taken by means of friction. The colouringmatter of the engraving is much lighter than in the St. Christopher andthe Annunciation, and is like distemper or water-colour ; while that ofthe latter cuts appears, as has been already observed, more like printers. ink. It is coarsely coloured, and apparently by the hand, unassistedwith the stencil. The face and hands are of a flesh colour. Her gown,as well as the pilgrims hat and scrip, are of a dark grey ; her veil, whichshe wears hood wise, is partly black and partly white ; and the wimplewhich she wears round her neck is also white. The bench and desk, thepilgrims staff, the letters S. P. Q. K, the lion, the crown, and the nimbus WOOD ENGRAVING. 53 surrounding the head of St. Bridget and that of the Virgin, are ground is green, and the whole cut is surrounded with a border ofa shining mulberry or lake colour. Mr. Ottley, having at the very outset of his Inquiry adopted Papillonsstory of the Cunio, is compelled, for consistencys sake, in the subsequentportion of his work, when speaking of early wood engravings such as theabove, to consider them, not as the earliest known specimens of the art,but merely as wood engravings suc
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