AAbsolon, John, artist,576*.Accursius, Mariangelus, note written by, in a Donatus,123.Advertisements, wood-cuts prefixed to,446n.Allegory of Death, a tract printed at Bamberg, 1462,171.Almanach de Paris, with wood-cuts, by Papillon,459.Almanacks, sheet, 1470, 1500,225.Alphabet of figures, engraved on wood, in the British Museum,106;cuts from,109,110,111,112;with figures, of a Dance of Death, preserved in the public library at Basle,352.Altdorffer, A.320.Amman, Jost, cuts designed by, in a book of trades and professions,408,409;other cuts designed by him,411.Amonoph, a name on an Egyptian brick-stamp,6n.Andreani, Andrea, chiaro-scuros engraved by,432.Andrews, G. H. painter,598*.Anelay, H. artist,575*.Angus, George, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, printer, wood-cuts used by, in cheap works,180,228.Annunciation, old cut of the,50.Ansdell, Richard, painter,598*.Ansgarius, St., supposed to have been the compiler of the Biblia Pauperum,94.Antichrist, cuts of,61.Antonianus, Silvius, a cardinal, claimed by Papillon as a wood engraver,337.Antonio, Marc, his copies of the Little Passion and the Life of the Virgin, designed by Durer,251.Antwerp, painters’ company of, entertain Durer,261;procession in honour of the Virgin,ib.Apelles, the image of the life of man as painted in a table by,436n.Apocalypse, an ancient block-book,61,68;cuts in illustration of, from Durer’s designs,239.Appeal to Christendom, early specimen of typography,138.Arch, triumphal, of Maximilian, designed by Durer,255.Archer, J. draughtsman,599*.Archer, J. W. draughtsman,599*.Aretin, J. C. von,114.Armitage, Edward, painter,598*.Armstrong, T. engraver,592*.Armstrong, Wm. engraver,600*.Ars Memorandi,113;cut from,115.Ars Moriendi, an old block-book,116.Art, early German,3.Assen, J. W. van,318.Astle’s Origin and Progress of Writing,20.Atkinson, G. C., his Life of Bewick,477,478,480,482,492,501,503,505.Austin, an English wood-engraver,538.BBabylonian brick,7.Balls, leather, formerly used by pressmen, not so elastic as composition rollers,620.Bamberg, a book of fables printed at, in 1461,171.Bämler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.Baptism of Drusiana,66.Bartsch, Adam, of opinion that Albert Durer did not engrave on wood,237.Battailes, La Fleur des, 1505,210.Baxter, George, his improvements in printing in colours,406;his chiaro-scuros and picture-prints,629.Beating time with the foot mistaken for printing,120.Beaumont, Sir George, curious alphabet of figures engraved on wood, formerly belonging to,106.Bechtermuntze, Henry and Nicholas, early printers, related to Gutemberg,142.Beddoes, Dr. Thomas, his poem of Alexander’s expedition down the Hydaspes, with wood-cuts, by E. Dyas, 1792,463n.Behaim, Michael, letter to, from Albert Durer,235.Behaim, H. S.253n,320.654Beilby, Ralph, the partner of Bewick,479.Beildeck, Lawrence, his evidence in the suit of the Drytzehns against Gutemberg, 1438,128.Bekker, R. Z. editor of a collection of wood-cuts, from old blocks in the possession of the Baron Von Derschau,226.Bellini, Giovanni, his praise of Durer,242.Bells, inscriptions on,20.Bennett, C. draughtsman,599*.Benting, William, Lord of Rhoon and Pendraght, a fictitious character, mentioned by T. Nieuhoff Piccard,360,361n,363.Bernacle or Barnacle Goose,414.Bernardin, St. account of an old wood-cut of,56.Beroaldus, Peter, editor of an edition of Ptolemy,201.Best, Andrew, and Leloir, their metallic relief engraving,636.Bethemsted, a name in an old book of wood-cuts,111.Beugnet, a French wood engraver,547.Bewick, Thomas, his birth, 1753,472;apprenticed to Mr. R. Beilby,474;engraves the diagrams in Hutton’s Mensuration, 1768-1770,475;receives a premium for his cut of the Old Hound, 1775,476;visits London,477;cuts engraved by him in a Hieroglyphic Bible,478;his love of the country,479;his partnership with Beilby,ib.;his cuts in Gay’s Fables,480;his cut of the Chillingham Bull,481;his Quadrupeds, 1791,482-490;his British Birds, 1797-1804,490-502;his Select Fables, 1818,502-506;his cut of the Old Horse waiting for Death,510;his diligence,507;his death,ib.;tribute to his merits from Blackwood’s Magazine,512;list of portraits of him,509n.Bewick, John, notice of his principal works,513.Bible, the Mazarine, printed prior to August, 1456,139.Bible supposed to have been printed by Pfister, at Bamberg,181.Bible cuts, Lyons, 1538, designed by Holbein,365-371;engravings from 86,88,89,90,91,92.Bible, Quadrins Historiques de la,402.Biblia Pauperum,80-94.Biblia Pauperum Predicatorum,83.Bildhauer,2.Binding, old,60.Birds, engraved by Bewick’s pupils,492n.Birkman, Arnold, Dance of Death, copied from the Lyons edition, published by his heirs, Cologne, 1555-1572,336.Blake, William, his mode of engraving in metallic relief,632;his drawing of Death’s Door, engraved by Linton,591.Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, cut from,534.Blocking out,589.Block-books claimed for Lawrence Coster,58.Blocks, original, of the Triumphs of Maximilian, preserved at Vienna,291.Bolton, Thomas, wood engraver,576*,577*.Bombo, the name of a dog, supposed by Papillon to be the name of a wood-engraver,337n.Bomb shell, cut of a, from a book printed in 1472,187.Borbonius, or Bourbon, Nicholas, verses by, in praise of Holbein,356,357,362,367.Borders, flowered, earliest specimens of in books,209.Böttiger, C. A.21.Box-wood, different qualities of,563,566.Brandling, H. draughtsman,599*.Brands for marking cattle,11.Branston, Robert, notice of his principal wood-cuts,535-538.Branston, R. the younger, wood-engraver,544;his method of engraving in metallic relief,634.Branston, F. W. wood-engraver,544,545.Brass stamps,10.Brasses, monumental,21.Braunche, Robert, his monument at Lynn,22.Breitkopf, G. J. his attempt to print maps with separative pieces of type-metal, 1776,205.Breydenbach’s Travels, 1486,206-209.Bricks, from Egypt and Babylon,6,7.Bridget, St., early cut of,52.Brief of Indulgence, 1454, an early specimen of typography,137.Briefe, cards so called in Germany,42.Briefmaler and Briefdrucker,43,410.British Birds, History of, with cuts by Bewick,490-502.Broughton, Hugh, his Concent of Scripture, with copper-plate engravings, 1591,423.Büchel, Emanuel, a Dance of Death copied by, in water-colours,326.Bukinck, Arnold, printer, his edition of Ptolemy, 1478, with maps, engraved on copper,200.Bullet, J. B. his Researches on Playing Cards,40.Bulwer, Sir E. Lytton, quoted,398.Burgmair, Hans, painter, and designer on wood,277.Burleigh, Lord, his portrait in Archbishop Parker’s edition of the Bible, 1568,419.Burnet, John, his engraving of Chelsea Pensioners, after Wilkie,213.Burning in the hand,12.Bury, Richard de, makes no mention of wood engraving,39.Businck, chiaro-scuros engraved by,440.Buttons, silver, engraved by Bewick,479.Bybel, Historische School en Huis, Amsterdam, 1743, with wood-cuts,459.Byfield, John, wood engraver,544.CCalcar, John, a Flemish painter,434.Calderinus, D. editor of an edition of Ptolemy,208.Camus, his account of a book printed at Bamberg, 1462,171.Canticles, illustrations of,71,72.655Capitals, ornamented, in Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter,426;in English and other books,616,617.Car, triumphal, of Maximilian, designed by Durer,255.Cards, known in 1340,40.Caron, Nicholas, wood engraver, his portrait of Papillon,466n.Carpi, Ugo da, engraver of chiaro-scuros, on wood,230,307.Cartouch,28n.Casts, stereotype, early,418;modern,636;clichage,637.Cat edition of Dante, Venice, 1578,431.Catherine, St. patroness of learned men,207.Catholicon Johannis Januensis,135n.Cauteria,12.Caxton, W. books printed by,—Game of Chess,191;Mirror of the World,194;Golden Legend, Fables of Esop, Canterbury Tales,195.Caylus, Count, chiaro-scuros executed by, and N. Le Sueur,456n.Cessolis, J. de, his work on Chess,197.Champollion,6n.Chantrey, Sir F. monument by, in Lichfield Cathedral,589,590.Characters in an old Dutch Dance of Death,318,329n.Charlemagne, his monogram,14.Chelidonius,243,251.Chelsea Pensioners, engraving of, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,48.Chess, the Game of, printed by Caxton,191.Chiaro-scuro, engraving on wood, known in Germany, in 1509,230.Chiaro-scuros,307,402,432,440,451,455,467,628.Children in the Wood, cut from,533.Chillingham bull, cut of, by Bewick,481.Chinese engraving and printing,23.Chirotipografia, or hand-printing,44n.Chisels,578.Christopher, St. wood-cut of, in the possession of Earl Spencer,45,46.Chrysographus,121.Circular wood engravings in the British Museum,54n.Clayton, J. R. draughtsman,599*.Cleaning wood cuts after printing, mode of,649.Clennell, Luke, a pupil of Bewick, biographical notice of,521-527.Clerc, Sebastian le, cuts in Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, copied from his engravings,450.Clichage, a mode of taking a cast from a wood engraving,637.Coeck, Peter, of Alost, his Costumes and Manners of the Turks,402.Coining, its antiquity,19.Cole, Humphrey, an English engraver, 1572,419.Coleman, Wm. artist,599*.Collation of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,102.Cologne Chronicle, unfairly quoted by the advocates of Coster,122.Colonna, Francis, author of the Hypnerotomachia,218.Colour, the meaning of the word when applied to engravings,213.Committee of the House of Commons on Arts and their Connexion with Manufactures,305.Congreve’s, Sir Wm. mode of colour printing,630.Concanen, M. wood cut in Miscellaneous Poems, published by, 1724,453.Cooper, James, wood-engraver,550,552.Coornhert, Theodore, claims the invention of printing for Harlem,146.Cope, C. W. painter,598*.Copperplate engraving, its invention ascribed to Varro,21.Copperplates, earliest books containing,200;the earliest engraved in England,419.Corbould, E. H. painter,598*.Coriolano, Bartolomeo, chiaro-scuros engraved by,440.Cornelius, a bookbinder, his account of Coster’s invention,150-152.Coster, Lawrence, first mentioned by Hadrian Junius as the inventor of printing,147;account of his invention,149.Cotman’s Sepulchral Brasses,22n.Coverdale, Miles, cuts in his translation of the Bible, 1535,385-389.Cowper, Edward, his invention for piercing wood blocks for map engraving,205.Cracherode, Rev. C. M. prints and books presented by him to the British Museum,72,231,355,385.Cranach, Lucas, painter and designer on wood,275;chiaro-scuros cut after,276;figure of Christ printed in colours, supposed to be by him,404.Cranmer, Archbishop, his Catechism, 1548, with wood cuts,380-382.Creswick, T. artist.588*,589*.Cropsey, Jasper, painter,598*.Crown-piece of George IV., impressions of casts from,618.Crowquill, Alfred, artist,597*.Cross-hatching,224,234,562.Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, wood cuts in, 1722,448-451.Cruikshank, George, artist,595*,596*.Cuningham’s, Dr. William, Cosmographical Glass, 1559,421,425;his portrait,424;cuts from his book,425,426,427.Cunio, Alberic and Isabella, pretended wood engravers,26.Curved lines, the effect of,585.Cutting tools,576.DDalziel, Bros. wood engravers,559-562*,566*.Dalziel, Thomas, artist,562*.Dammetz, Lucas, called also Lucas Van Leyden,308.Dampth, its effect on box-wood,564.Dance of Death, in old churches,325;at Basle,326;in old French and other books,328;the Lyons Dance of Death, 1538, with cuts, designed by Hans Holbein,329-364;656his Alphabet containing his Dance of Death,352.Dante, edition of, withcopper-plates, 1482;the cat edition of, Venice, 1578,431.Darley, Felix, draughtsman,599*.Dates of block books and cuts, mistake about,58.Day, John, an English printer, supposed to have also engraved on wood,425.Denecker, Jobst, publisher of a Dance of Death at Augsburg, 1544,336.Dentatus, the large cut of the death of, engraved by W. Harvey,528;specimens of it,601,609.Derschau, the Baron Von, his collection of old wood blocks,93,226;his character,236n.Desroches, M. ascribes the invention of printing to “Vedelare Lodewyc,”119.Deutsch, N. E.314.Dickes, W. draughtsman,599*.Dinkel, Joseph, draughtsman,593*.Doctrinale gette en mole,122.Dodd, Daniel and John, wood engravers,544.Dodgson, G. painter,598*.Dolce, Ludovico, his Transformationi, a paraphrase of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,394.Dominicals, stamped on paper,120.Dominotiers,45.Donatus, a grammatical treatise so called, printed from wood blocks,117;one supposed to have beenstamped, 1340,121;idea of typography perhaps suggested by such a work,123.Douce, Francis, his opinion about the name Machabre,325;his list of books containing figures of a Dance of Death,328;his edition of the Dance of Death, 1833,338;denies that the cuts in the Lyons edition were designed by Holbein,346;but believes, on the authority of an unknown writer, named Piccard, that Holbein painted a Dance of Death in the old palace at Whitehall,360.Dovaston’s account of Bewick,478n.Doyle, R. artist.578*,579*.Drawings, of a Dance of Death, supposed to be originals, by Holbein,357;by Robert Johnson, purchased of Beilby and Bewick, by the Earl of Bute,517;on wood, mode of preparing the block for,570;for wood engraving, difficulty of obtaining good,592.Drytzehn, Andrew, a partner of Gutemberg’s,126.Duncan, Edward, artist,583*.Dünne, Hans, work done by him for Gutemberg, on account of printing, previous to 1438,129.Durer, Albert, placed as pupil under Michael Wolgemuth,238;earliest known copper-plate of his engraving, 1494,239;his illustrations of the Apocalypse,ib.;his visit to Venice,241;his illustrations of the History of the Virgin,243-246;of Christ’s Passion,246-250;triumphal car,255;triumphal arch,ib.;his earliest etchings,257;specimen of his carving in the British Museum,258;his poetry,260n;his visit to Flanders,260-270;his portrait,272;lock of his hair preserved,321n;his death, said to have been hastened through his wife’s bad temper,239,273.Dyas, E. a self-taught wood engraver,463n.Dyers of Ovingham,501.EEdmonston, S. draughtsman,599*.Egyptian brick stamp,5,6.
A
Absolon, John, artist,576*.
Accursius, Mariangelus, note written by, in a Donatus,123.
Advertisements, wood-cuts prefixed to,446n.
Allegory of Death, a tract printed at Bamberg, 1462,171.
Almanach de Paris, with wood-cuts, by Papillon,459.
Almanacks, sheet, 1470, 1500,225.
Alphabet of figures, engraved on wood, in the British Museum,106;
cuts from,109,110,111,112;
with figures, of a Dance of Death, preserved in the public library at Basle,352.
Altdorffer, A.320.
Amman, Jost, cuts designed by, in a book of trades and professions,408,409;
other cuts designed by him,411.
Amonoph, a name on an Egyptian brick-stamp,6n.
Andreani, Andrea, chiaro-scuros engraved by,432.
Andrews, G. H. painter,598*.
Anelay, H. artist,575*.
Angus, George, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, printer, wood-cuts used by, in cheap works,180,228.
Annunciation, old cut of the,50.
Ansdell, Richard, painter,598*.
Ansgarius, St., supposed to have been the compiler of the Biblia Pauperum,94.
Antichrist, cuts of,61.
Antonianus, Silvius, a cardinal, claimed by Papillon as a wood engraver,337.
Antonio, Marc, his copies of the Little Passion and the Life of the Virgin, designed by Durer,251.
Antwerp, painters’ company of, entertain Durer,261;
procession in honour of the Virgin,ib.
Apelles, the image of the life of man as painted in a table by,436n.
Apocalypse, an ancient block-book,61,68;
cuts in illustration of, from Durer’s designs,239.
Appeal to Christendom, early specimen of typography,138.
Arch, triumphal, of Maximilian, designed by Durer,255.
Archer, J. draughtsman,599*.
Archer, J. W. draughtsman,599*.
Aretin, J. C. von,114.
Armitage, Edward, painter,598*.
Armstrong, T. engraver,592*.
Armstrong, Wm. engraver,600*.
Ars Memorandi,113;
cut from,115.
Ars Moriendi, an old block-book,116.
Art, early German,3.
Assen, J. W. van,318.
Astle’s Origin and Progress of Writing,20.
Atkinson, G. C., his Life of Bewick,477,478,480,482,492,501,503,505.
Austin, an English wood-engraver,538.
B
Babylonian brick,7.
Balls, leather, formerly used by pressmen, not so elastic as composition rollers,620.
Bamberg, a book of fables printed at, in 1461,171.
Bämler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.
Baptism of Drusiana,66.
Bartsch, Adam, of opinion that Albert Durer did not engrave on wood,237.
Battailes, La Fleur des, 1505,210.
Baxter, George, his improvements in printing in colours,406;
his chiaro-scuros and picture-prints,629.
Beating time with the foot mistaken for printing,120.
Beaumont, Sir George, curious alphabet of figures engraved on wood, formerly belonging to,106.
Bechtermuntze, Henry and Nicholas, early printers, related to Gutemberg,142.
Beddoes, Dr. Thomas, his poem of Alexander’s expedition down the Hydaspes, with wood-cuts, by E. Dyas, 1792,463n.
Behaim, Michael, letter to, from Albert Durer,235.
Behaim, H. S.253n,320.
Beilby, Ralph, the partner of Bewick,479.
Beildeck, Lawrence, his evidence in the suit of the Drytzehns against Gutemberg, 1438,128.
Bekker, R. Z. editor of a collection of wood-cuts, from old blocks in the possession of the Baron Von Derschau,226.
Bellini, Giovanni, his praise of Durer,242.
Bells, inscriptions on,20.
Bennett, C. draughtsman,599*.
Benting, William, Lord of Rhoon and Pendraght, a fictitious character, mentioned by T. Nieuhoff Piccard,360,361n,363.
Bernacle or Barnacle Goose,414.
Bernardin, St. account of an old wood-cut of,56.
Beroaldus, Peter, editor of an edition of Ptolemy,201.
Best, Andrew, and Leloir, their metallic relief engraving,636.
Bethemsted, a name in an old book of wood-cuts,111.
Beugnet, a French wood engraver,547.
Bewick, Thomas, his birth, 1753,472;
apprenticed to Mr. R. Beilby,474;
engraves the diagrams in Hutton’s Mensuration, 1768-1770,475;
receives a premium for his cut of the Old Hound, 1775,476;
visits London,477;
cuts engraved by him in a Hieroglyphic Bible,478;
his love of the country,479;
his partnership with Beilby,ib.;
his cuts in Gay’s Fables,480;
his cut of the Chillingham Bull,481;
his Quadrupeds, 1791,482-490;
his British Birds, 1797-1804,490-502;
his Select Fables, 1818,502-506;
his cut of the Old Horse waiting for Death,510;
his diligence,507;
his death,ib.;
tribute to his merits from Blackwood’s Magazine,512;
list of portraits of him,509n.
Bewick, John, notice of his principal works,513.
Bible, the Mazarine, printed prior to August, 1456,139.
Bible supposed to have been printed by Pfister, at Bamberg,181.
Bible cuts, Lyons, 1538, designed by Holbein,365-371;
engravings from 86,88,89,90,91,92.
Bible, Quadrins Historiques de la,402.
Biblia Pauperum,80-94.
Biblia Pauperum Predicatorum,83.
Bildhauer,2.
Binding, old,60.
Birds, engraved by Bewick’s pupils,492n.
Birkman, Arnold, Dance of Death, copied from the Lyons edition, published by his heirs, Cologne, 1555-1572,336.
Blake, William, his mode of engraving in metallic relief,632;
his drawing of Death’s Door, engraved by Linton,591.
Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, cut from,534.
Blocking out,589.
Block-books claimed for Lawrence Coster,58.
Blocks, original, of the Triumphs of Maximilian, preserved at Vienna,291.
Bolton, Thomas, wood engraver,576*,577*.
Bombo, the name of a dog, supposed by Papillon to be the name of a wood-engraver,337n.
Bomb shell, cut of a, from a book printed in 1472,187.
Borbonius, or Bourbon, Nicholas, verses by, in praise of Holbein,356,357,362,367.
Borders, flowered, earliest specimens of in books,209.
Böttiger, C. A.21.
Box-wood, different qualities of,563,566.
Brandling, H. draughtsman,599*.
Brands for marking cattle,11.
Branston, Robert, notice of his principal wood-cuts,535-538.
Branston, R. the younger, wood-engraver,544;
his method of engraving in metallic relief,634.
Branston, F. W. wood-engraver,544,545.
Brass stamps,10.
Brasses, monumental,21.
Braunche, Robert, his monument at Lynn,22.
Breitkopf, G. J. his attempt to print maps with separative pieces of type-metal, 1776,205.
Breydenbach’s Travels, 1486,206-209.
Bricks, from Egypt and Babylon,6,7.
Bridget, St., early cut of,52.
Brief of Indulgence, 1454, an early specimen of typography,137.
Briefe, cards so called in Germany,42.
Briefmaler and Briefdrucker,43,410.
British Birds, History of, with cuts by Bewick,490-502.
Broughton, Hugh, his Concent of Scripture, with copper-plate engravings, 1591,423.
Büchel, Emanuel, a Dance of Death copied by, in water-colours,326.
Bukinck, Arnold, printer, his edition of Ptolemy, 1478, with maps, engraved on copper,200.
Bullet, J. B. his Researches on Playing Cards,40.
Bulwer, Sir E. Lytton, quoted,398.
Burgmair, Hans, painter, and designer on wood,277.
Burleigh, Lord, his portrait in Archbishop Parker’s edition of the Bible, 1568,419.
Burnet, John, his engraving of Chelsea Pensioners, after Wilkie,213.
Burning in the hand,12.
Bury, Richard de, makes no mention of wood engraving,39.
Businck, chiaro-scuros engraved by,440.
Buttons, silver, engraved by Bewick,479.
Bybel, Historische School en Huis, Amsterdam, 1743, with wood-cuts,459.
Byfield, John, wood engraver,544.
C
Calcar, John, a Flemish painter,434.
Calderinus, D. editor of an edition of Ptolemy,208.
Camus, his account of a book printed at Bamberg, 1462,171.
Canticles, illustrations of,71,72.
Capitals, ornamented, in Faust and Scheffer’s Psalter,426;
in English and other books,616,617.
Car, triumphal, of Maximilian, designed by Durer,255.
Cards, known in 1340,40.
Caron, Nicholas, wood engraver, his portrait of Papillon,466n.
Carpi, Ugo da, engraver of chiaro-scuros, on wood,230,307.
Cartouch,28n.
Casts, stereotype, early,418;
modern,636;
clichage,637.
Cat edition of Dante, Venice, 1578,431.
Catherine, St. patroness of learned men,207.
Catholicon Johannis Januensis,135n.
Cauteria,12.
Caxton, W. books printed by,—Game of Chess,191;
Mirror of the World,194;
Golden Legend, Fables of Esop, Canterbury Tales,195.
Caylus, Count, chiaro-scuros executed by, and N. Le Sueur,456n.
Cessolis, J. de, his work on Chess,197.
Champollion,6n.
Chantrey, Sir F. monument by, in Lichfield Cathedral,589,590.
Characters in an old Dutch Dance of Death,318,329n.
Charlemagne, his monogram,14.
Chelidonius,243,251.
Chelsea Pensioners, engraving of, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,48.
Chess, the Game of, printed by Caxton,191.
Chiaro-scuro, engraving on wood, known in Germany, in 1509,230.
Chiaro-scuros,307,402,432,440,451,455,467,628.
Children in the Wood, cut from,533.
Chillingham bull, cut of, by Bewick,481.
Chinese engraving and printing,23.
Chirotipografia, or hand-printing,44n.
Chisels,578.
Christopher, St. wood-cut of, in the possession of Earl Spencer,45,46.
Chrysographus,121.
Circular wood engravings in the British Museum,54n.
Clayton, J. R. draughtsman,599*.
Cleaning wood cuts after printing, mode of,649.
Clennell, Luke, a pupil of Bewick, biographical notice of,521-527.
Clerc, Sebastian le, cuts in Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, copied from his engravings,450.
Clichage, a mode of taking a cast from a wood engraving,637.
Coeck, Peter, of Alost, his Costumes and Manners of the Turks,402.
Coining, its antiquity,19.
Cole, Humphrey, an English engraver, 1572,419.
Coleman, Wm. artist,599*.
Collation of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,102.
Cologne Chronicle, unfairly quoted by the advocates of Coster,122.
Colonna, Francis, author of the Hypnerotomachia,218.
Colour, the meaning of the word when applied to engravings,213.
Committee of the House of Commons on Arts and their Connexion with Manufactures,305.
Congreve’s, Sir Wm. mode of colour printing,630.
Concanen, M. wood cut in Miscellaneous Poems, published by, 1724,453.
Cooper, James, wood-engraver,550,552.
Coornhert, Theodore, claims the invention of printing for Harlem,146.
Cope, C. W. painter,598*.
Copperplate engraving, its invention ascribed to Varro,21.
Copperplates, earliest books containing,200;
the earliest engraved in England,419.
Corbould, E. H. painter,598*.
Coriolano, Bartolomeo, chiaro-scuros engraved by,440.
Cornelius, a bookbinder, his account of Coster’s invention,150-152.
Coster, Lawrence, first mentioned by Hadrian Junius as the inventor of printing,147;
account of his invention,149.
Cotman’s Sepulchral Brasses,22n.
Coverdale, Miles, cuts in his translation of the Bible, 1535,385-389.
Cowper, Edward, his invention for piercing wood blocks for map engraving,205.
Cracherode, Rev. C. M. prints and books presented by him to the British Museum,72,231,355,385.
Cranach, Lucas, painter and designer on wood,275;
chiaro-scuros cut after,276;
figure of Christ printed in colours, supposed to be by him,404.
Cranmer, Archbishop, his Catechism, 1548, with wood cuts,380-382.
Creswick, T. artist.588*,589*.
Cropsey, Jasper, painter,598*.
Crown-piece of George IV., impressions of casts from,618.
Crowquill, Alfred, artist,597*.
Cross-hatching,224,234,562.
Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, wood cuts in, 1722,448-451.
Cruikshank, George, artist,595*,596*.
Cuningham’s, Dr. William, Cosmographical Glass, 1559,421,425;
his portrait,424;
cuts from his book,425,426,427.
Cunio, Alberic and Isabella, pretended wood engravers,26.
Curved lines, the effect of,585.
Cutting tools,576.
D
Dalziel, Bros. wood engravers,559-562*,566*.
Dalziel, Thomas, artist,562*.
Dammetz, Lucas, called also Lucas Van Leyden,308.
Dampth, its effect on box-wood,564.
Dance of Death, in old churches,325;
at Basle,326;
in old French and other books,328;
the Lyons Dance of Death, 1538, with cuts, designed by Hans Holbein,329-364;
his Alphabet containing his Dance of Death,352.
Dante, edition of, withcopper-plates, 1482;
the cat edition of, Venice, 1578,431.
Darley, Felix, draughtsman,599*.
Dates of block books and cuts, mistake about,58.
Day, John, an English printer, supposed to have also engraved on wood,425.
Denecker, Jobst, publisher of a Dance of Death at Augsburg, 1544,336.
Dentatus, the large cut of the death of, engraved by W. Harvey,528;
specimens of it,601,609.
Derschau, the Baron Von, his collection of old wood blocks,93,226;
his character,236n.
Desroches, M. ascribes the invention of printing to “Vedelare Lodewyc,”119.
Deutsch, N. E.314.
Dickes, W. draughtsman,599*.
Dinkel, Joseph, draughtsman,593*.
Doctrinale gette en mole,122.
Dodd, Daniel and John, wood engravers,544.
Dodgson, G. painter,598*.
Dolce, Ludovico, his Transformationi, a paraphrase of Ovid’s Metamorphoses,394.
Dominicals, stamped on paper,120.
Dominotiers,45.
Donatus, a grammatical treatise so called, printed from wood blocks,117;
one supposed to have beenstamped, 1340,121;
idea of typography perhaps suggested by such a work,123.
Douce, Francis, his opinion about the name Machabre,325;
his list of books containing figures of a Dance of Death,328;
his edition of the Dance of Death, 1833,338;
denies that the cuts in the Lyons edition were designed by Holbein,346;
but believes, on the authority of an unknown writer, named Piccard, that Holbein painted a Dance of Death in the old palace at Whitehall,360.
Dovaston’s account of Bewick,478n.
Doyle, R. artist.578*,579*.
Drawings, of a Dance of Death, supposed to be originals, by Holbein,357;
by Robert Johnson, purchased of Beilby and Bewick, by the Earl of Bute,517;
on wood, mode of preparing the block for,570;
for wood engraving, difficulty of obtaining good,592.
Drytzehn, Andrew, a partner of Gutemberg’s,126.
Duncan, Edward, artist,583*.
Dünne, Hans, work done by him for Gutemberg, on account of printing, previous to 1438,129.
Durer, Albert, placed as pupil under Michael Wolgemuth,238;
earliest known copper-plate of his engraving, 1494,239;
his illustrations of the Apocalypse,ib.;
his visit to Venice,241;
his illustrations of the History of the Virgin,243-246;
of Christ’s Passion,246-250;
triumphal car,255;
triumphal arch,ib.;
his earliest etchings,257;
specimen of his carving in the British Museum,258;
his poetry,260n;
his visit to Flanders,260-270;
his portrait,272;
lock of his hair preserved,321n;
his death, said to have been hastened through his wife’s bad temper,239,273.
Dyas, E. a self-taught wood engraver,463n.
Dyers of Ovingham,501.
E
Edmonston, S. draughtsman,599*.
Egyptian brick stamp,5,6.