A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical

CHAPTER VI.

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FURTHER PROGRESS AND DECLINE OF WOOD ENGRAVING, 324-445.

Initial letter T, from a book printed at Paris by Robert Stephens, 1537 324 Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, from a cut designed by Hans Holbein in the Dance of Death, first printed at Lyons in 1538 339 Death’s Coat of Arms, from the same work 340 The Old Man, from the same 341 The Duchess, from the same 342 The Child, from the same 343 The Waggoner, from Holbein’s Dance of Death 344 Child with a shield and dart, from the same 345 Children with the emblems of a triumph, from the same 346 Holbein’s Alphabet of the Dance of Death 352 Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, from a cut designed by Holbein in his Bible-prints, Lyons, 1539 368 The Fool, from the same work 369 The sheath of a dagger, intended as a design for a chaser 374 Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt from a cut designed by Holbein in Leland’s Næniæ, 1542 379 Prayer, from a cut designed by Holbein in Archbishop Cranmer’s Catechism, 1548 380 Christ casting out Devils, from another cut by Holbein, in the same work 381 The Creation, from the same work 382 The Crucifixion, from the same 382 Christ’s Agony, from the same 382 Genealogical Tree, from an edition of the New Testament, printed at Zurich by Froschover, 1554 383 St. Luke, from Tindale’s Translation of the New Testament, 1534 384 St James, from the same 384 Death on the Pale Horse, from the same 384 Cain killing Abel, from Coverdale’s Translation of the Old and New Testament, 1535 386 Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, from the same 387 The Two Spies, from the same 387 St. Matthew, from the same 388 St. John the Baptist, from the same 388 St. Paul writing, from the same 388 Frontispiece to Marcolini’s Sorti, Venice, 1540, by Joseph Porta Garfagninus, after a Study by Raffaele for the School of Athens 390 Punitione, from the same work 392 Matrimony, from the same 392 Cards, from the same 393 Truth saved by Time, from the same 393 The Labour of Alcmena, from Dolce’s Transformationi, Venice, 1553 394 Monogram, from Palatino’s Treatise on Writing, Rome, 1561 396 Hieroglyphic Sonnet, from the same work 396 Portraits of Petrarch and Laura, from Petrarch’s Sonetti, Lyons, 1547 400 Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise, from Quadrins Historiques de la Bible, Lyons, 1550-1560 401 Christ tempted by Satan, from Figures du Nouveau Testament, Lyons, 1553-1570 402 Briefmaler, from a book of Trades and Professions, Frankfort, 1564-1574 410 Formschneider, from the same 411 The Goose Tree, from Sebastian Munster’s Cosmography, Basle, 1550-1554 414 William Tell about to shoot at the apple on his son’s head, from the same 416 Portrait of Dr. William Cuningham, from his Cosmographical Glass, London, 1559 424 Four initial letters, from the same work 425, 426, 427 Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, from the Books of Christian Prayers printed by John Daye, 1569 428 Large initial letter, from Fox’s Acts and Monuments, 1576 429 Initial letter, from a work printed by Giolito at Venice, about 1550 430 Two Cats, from an edition of Dante, printed at Venice, 1578 431 Emblem of Water, from a chiaro-scuro by Henry Goltzius, about 1590 433 Caricature of the Laocoon, after a cut designed by Titian 435 The Good Householder, from a cut printed at London, 1607 437 Virgin and Christ, from a cut designed by Rubens, and engraved by Christopher Jegher 438 The Infant Christ and John the Baptist, from a cut designed by Rubens, and engraved by Christopher Jegher 439 Jael and Sisera, from a cut designed by Henry Goltzius, and engraved by C. Van Sichem 440 Tail-piece, from an old cut on the title-page of the first known edition of Robin Hood’s Garland, 1670 445