Chapter VI

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