A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . aits drawn by Dureron wood also bears the date 1522. It is that of his friend UlrichVambuler,!—mentioned at page 253,—and is of large size, being about * St. Margarets day is the 20th July. t Durer says that this astronomer was a German, and a native of Ulrich Varnbuler was subsequently the chancellor of the Emperor Ferdinand I. Durermentions him in a letter addressed to Hemn Frey in Zurich, and dated from Nuremberg IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DURER. 271 seventeen inches high by twelve and three-fourths wide. The headis full of char
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . aits drawn by Dureron wood also bears the date 1522. It is that of his friend UlrichVambuler,!—mentioned at page 253,—and is of large size, being about * St. Margarets day is the 20th July. t Durer says that this astronomer was a German, and a native of Ulrich Varnbuler was subsequently the chancellor of the Emperor Ferdinand I. Durermentions him in a letter addressed to Hemn Frey in Zurich, and dated from Nuremberg IN THE TIME OF ALBERT DURER. 271 seventeen inches high by twelve and three-fourths wide. The headis full of character, and the engraving is admirably executed. From1522 to 1528, the year of Durers death, he seems to have almostentirely given up the practice of drawing on wood, as there areonly three cuts with his mark which contain a date between those years ;they are his own arms dated 1523 ; his own portrait dated 1527 ; andthe siege of a fortified city previously noticed at page 253, also dated1527. The following is a reduced copy of the cut of Durers The pair of doors on the shield—in German Durer or Thurer—is arebus of the artists name; after the manner of the Lucys of our owncountry, who bore three luces* or pikes—fish, not weapons—argent, intheir coat of arms. on the Sunday after St. Andrews day, 1523. With this letter Durer sent to his correspondenta humorous sketch, in pen and ink, of apes dancing, which in 1776 was still preserved in thePublic Library of Basle. The date of this letter proves the incorrectness of Mr. Ottleysstatement, in page 723 of his Inquiry, where he says that Durer did not return to Nurembergfrom the Low Countries until the middle of the year 1524. Mr. Ottley is not more correctwhen he says, at page 735, that the portrait of Varnbuler is the size of nature. * It is supposed that Shakspeare, in alluding to the dozen white luces in MasterShallows coat of arms,—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I,—intended to ridicule Sir ThomasLucy of Charlec
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