Book/Printed Material A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 od RIAA FT RAPA wn w _â ak y Fas 2 Ph erat Te ASL LY N 4 t Lahti aa Chri AT Awa wb gâ I 2a a 3pm S03 ESHA…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1879
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Image 2 of Volume 1 ET ue Abe Tia ariall AEE Shei ttell A EPI EEIATD Fara OA Sats SR CAS ARAL iA TACT reds FF Sa Â8 â IADR BONAR 72 5 ig AR BAR BEET…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 3 of Volume 1 omar a Wenig CL THE GIFT OF 2g LESSING J ROSENWALD TOTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 4 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 5 of Volume 1 _ââ_â- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 6 of Volume 1 ET RA i- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 7 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 8 of Volume 1 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE EARLY PRINTS OF- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 9 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 10 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 11 of Volume 1 aay IIT 0 Thott Lr CHAT- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 12 of Volume 1 A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF EARLY PRINTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM YOL 1 GERMAN AND FLEMISH SCHOOLS BY WILLIAM HUGHES WILLSHIRE MD Epi LONDON 1879 PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES LONGMANS CO…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 13 of Volume 1 CHISWICK PRESS C WHITTINGHAM TOUKS COURT CHANCERY LANE- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 14 of Volume 1 SWAB MONG the numerous works in the Museum 2 Collection of Prints are many early cuts from 7 both woodblocks and metal plates which  though often not possessing qualities of artis…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 15 of Volume 1 vi PREFACE In the performance of the duty which has devolved on the author he has endeavoured to lighten somewhat the dryness of mere technical details by occasional references to the symbolism…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 16 of Volume 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 NTRODUCTION PAGE 3 DIVISION A Special Incunabula co 13 Fe s Corona Lucis of AixlaChapelle 15 Appendix 333 The â Passionâ of the Master of the year 1457…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 17 of Volume 1 Rr d be piri a A re a et ce EE Ido ction tm viii TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Saint Sebastian â 4 â he B17 Â Barbara i 115 ÂÂ Catherine…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 18 of Volume 1 Jesus on a Bank Jesus as a Franciscan Raising of Lazarus â Ecce Homoâ â The Plaellution and Mindeary Virgin and Loin Cloth Christ on the Cross A âPietdâ Christ as the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 19 of Volume 1 x TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Saint Barbara â vi i 270 Â Bridget of Sweden â âi 380 Catherine of Alexandria i1281 Assumption of Mary of Egypt â233 Saint Rosalia 284 Genealogical…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 20 of Volume 1 LIST OF PLATES AND REFERENCES TO THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR SUBJECTS IN THE VOLUME X LATE I FRONTISPIECE The Crucifixion of the Mazarine or Gutenberg Bible Re duced in size Page 79…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 21 of Volume 1 Â a Lig OF PLATES ETC PLATE VIIL The Letters BE F L and ornamental cut of â An Alphabet in Figuresâ Reduced in size Page 201 Nos 5 6 page 202…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 22 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 23 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 24 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION the series of early prints hereafter described passes in review before the student he can scarcely fail of being struck by certain pecu liarities which it possesses In the first place…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 25 of Volume 1 eo 10 Ee 4 INTRODUCTION or mystic symbolism was clearly not the selfimposed duty of the authors of these works of Art or if a Christian symbolism have been resorted to it…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 26 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION 5 home only âin the life of the senses and the bloodâDblood no longer dropping from the hands in sacrifice as with Angelico but as with Titian burning in the face…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 27 of Volume 1 6 INTRODUCTION and emotions embodied in the spiritualized conceptions of a Cimabue Orcagna Botticelli Fra Angelico Filippino Lippi and a Francia and at an afterperiod in the more secularized ideas of a…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 28 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION ite bulk of the more realistic productions of the North was to exert a power over such persons as could not come under the spell and teaching of frescoes and temperas…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 29 of Volume 1 8 INTRODUCTION which everywhere might be seen a realism and commonlife render ing of all subjects sanctioned by the Church a rendering too often it must be admitted which passed into the…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 30 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION 9 Leaving the subjects and their general designs and composition treated of in the incunabula before us we pass on to notice their technical execution Since the religious teachingâas far as…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 31 of Volume 1 10 INTRODUCTION ness of the forms in the designs served to bestow on these early re cords of the engraverâs art an archaic and rude character Such records could not be justly…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 32 of Volume 1 INTRODUCTION 11 ordinary manner In other instances plates engraved after the usual methods were yet inked and worked off in such exceptional ways as to give rise to impressions very puzzling in…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 33 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 34 of Volume 1 DIVISION A SPECIAL INCUNABULA- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 35 of Volume 1- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 36 of Volume 1 gr 2 aN Cr rT CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE Ao1 0 Y SERIES of sixteen impressions from engraved CopperPlates forming parts of a âCorona Lucisâ in the Cathedral of Aixla Chapelle LATTER…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 37 of Volume 1 a te ae hors oy Pg 3 16 SPECIAL INCUNABULA Alpha surmounted by a cross and above the book on the other side is the Omega with a like addition Laterally by…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 38 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLLE 17 sum a et w primus et novissimus prineipium et finis and a confession of faith in our Lords assertion of His own Infinity and Divinityâ â No…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 39 of Volume 1 18 SPECIAL INCUNABULA the left hand towards the infant Saviour who lying swathed in a manger above His motherâs bed looks over at her as if with curiosity The Virgin looks up…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
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Image 40 of Volume 1 CORONA LUCIS OF AIXLACHAPELLE PLATE 5 CHRIST ON THE CROSS 22 HE circle of the medallion is 7X inches in diameter the inner and ornamental border ths of an inch wide Within…- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings - Willshire, William Hughes - Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Date: 1879
About this Item
Title
- A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools
Names
- British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
- Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner
- Willshire, William Hughes, 1816-1899
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : Printed by order of the Trustees [by] Longmans & Co., 1879-<1883 >
Notes
- - Vol. 2 has title: Catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish schools.
- - Call number of original: NE55.L7A4.
- - Master microform held by: DLC.
- - Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- - Gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1943-1975.
Medium
- v. <1-2 > : ill. ; 27 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Microfilm 85/5507 (N)
- NE55.L7 A4
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- 85125616
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