ENGRAVINGS.

XIX.

DURER. The Holy Family with the Butterfly. (B. 44).

Collotype from the impression in the British Museum,

BOTH the style and the form of the monogram show this to be one of Durer’s earliest
engravings; Mr. S. R. Koehler places it second in his chronological catalogue and dates it
about 1494-5. He observes that the gondola is a piece of evidence for Durer’s disputed
first journey to Venice. The influence of Schongauer. however, is still strongly marked.
The relation of the engraving to the sketches of a Virgin and Child in Mr. Mayer’s Collection and to
the Holy Family at Erlangen have already been pointed out. It is even more interesting to com-
pare it with the drawing published by M. Rodrigues in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts (March 1899).
There the seat of turf with a front of boards makes its appearance, and St. Joseph is introduced,
almost in the attitude given to him in the engraving. The action of the Virgin and Child, however,
is quite different, and so is the landscape. M. Rodrigues observes that after all the care bestowed by
Durer in these studies on the hands, the latter are concealed as much as possible in the engraving.
The artist was still unpractised in the use of the graver, and would not attempt the more difficult task
of engraving hands with so much nicety of characterisation.
There is no consensus among iconographers or entomologists (if, indeed, the former have
condescended to consult the latter) as to the insect from which the print takes its name. I have
followed the old-fashioned appellation of Bartsch, “La Sainte Famille au Papillon,” but the creature
is more often called nowadays a grasshopper or locust (Heuschrecke) or a dragon-fly (Libelle). The
distinction is not of the first importance.

XX.

DURER. The Man of Sorrows, 1512,. (B. 21).
Photogravure from the British Museum impression, which is very slightly cut down,
Durer’s second dry-point plate; a very delicate piece of work, which has not, to my know-
ledge, been reproduced before. A drawing in the Louvre, L. 319, is a study for this print.

XXL

DURER. An Angel with the Sudarium, 1516. (B. 26).
Photogravure by the Imperial Press, Berlin.
This is one of Durer’s six etchings on iron plates.

XXII. (a.-i.)

ALBRECHT ALTDORFER.
Nine small Engravings reproduced on one plate.

Photogravure by the Imperial Press, Berlin,

(a) Judith (B. i).
(f) Mercury (B. 29).
(r) The Virgin seeking Christ
in the Temple (B. 24).

(d) St. Christopher (B. 19).
(2) The Holy Family (B. 5).
(f) The Virgin and Child
with St. Anne (B. 14).

(^) The Violinist (B. 54).
(f) Solomon’s Idolatry (B. 4).
(i) Christ Purifying the
Temple (B. 6).

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