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Identifier: treatiseonwooden00chat (find matches)
Title: A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Chatto, William Andrew, 1799-1864 Jackson, John, 1801-1848 Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884
Subjects: Wood-engraving
Publisher: New York : J. W. Bouton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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As this inscription, however, has been found inthe Harlem copy only, I am inclined to agree with )\Ir. Ottley in con-sidering it as a silly fraud devised by some of the compatriots of Costerfor the purpose of establishing a fact which it is, in reality, much bettercalculated to overthrow. * Heineken, who appears to have had more knowledge than taste onthe subject of art, declares the History of the Yirgin to be the mostGothic of all the block-books ; that it is different from them both in thestyle of the designs and of the engraving; and that the figures are verylike the ancient sculptures in the churches of Germany. If by theterm Gothic he means rude and tasteless, I differ with him entirely;for, though there be great sameness in the subjects, yet the figures,generally, are more gracefully designed than those of any other block- * Inquiry, p. 140. WOOD ENGEAVING. 71- book that I have seen. Compared with them, those of the BibliaPauperum and the Speculum might be termed Gothic indeed.
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The above group,—from that which Heineken considers the firstedition,—in which the figures are of the size of the originals, is takenfrom the seventh subject in Mr. Ottleys enumeration ;* that is, from theupper portion of the fourth cut. The text is the 14th verse of the 1st chapter of the Song of Solomon: Botrus cipri dilectus mens inter vineas enngadi; which in our Bible istranslated: My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vine-yards of En-gedi. In every cut the female figures are almost preciselythe same, and the drapery and the expression scarcely vary. From theeasy and graceful attitudes of his female figures, as well as from the * Inquiry, p. 144, vol. i. 7> PEOGEESS OF manner in whicli they are clothed, the artist may be considered as theStothard of his day.

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