Chapter 5

Mary de Medici, her portrait mistaken by Papillon and Fournier for a specimen of her own engraving on wood,461.Masters, little,320n.Matsys, Quintin, entertains Durer,261.Maude, Thomas, extract from his poem of the School Boy,473.Maugerard, M. copy of an early edition of the Bible discovered by,139.Maximilian the First, Emperor of Germany, his triumphal car and arch, designed by Durer,255;the Adventures of Sir Theurdank, the joint composition of himself and his secretary,282-285;works celebrating his actions,—The Wise King,286;the Triumphal Procession,288,289.Mazarine Bible,139n.Meadows, Kenny, artist,597*.Measom, Geo. wood engraver,575*.Mechel, Christian von, of Basle, his engravings after Holbein,350.Medals,320.Meditationes Joannis de Turrecremata,184.Meerman, G. his disbelief of the story of Coster’s invention,154;and his subsequent attempts to establish its credibility,155.Mentelin, John, printer, of Strasburg, formerly an illuminator,121.Mentonnière,465,574.Merchants’-marks,17.Metallic relief engraving, erroneous statements about,305;Blake’s metallic relief engraving,632;portrait thus executed by Lizars,633;Woone’s,634;Schonberg’s,ib.;Branston’s,ib.;Hancock’s patent,635;Sly’s experiments,636;Messrs. Best, Andrew, and Leloir,ib.Meydenbach, John, said to have been one of Gutemberg’s assistants,166.Meydenbach, Jacobus, printer of the Hortus Sanitatis, 1491,210.Millais, J. E. painter,598*.Mints, provincial, for coining money,19.Mirror of Human Salvation,95.Mirror of the World, printed by Caxton,194.Missale Herbipolense, with a copper-plate engraving, 1481,201.Moffet’s Theatre of Insects,442.Monogram,13,15.Montagna, Benedetto, wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,220.Monte Sancto di Dio, an early book, containing copper-plates, 1477,202.Monumental brasses,21.More, Sir Thomas,375.Morgan, M. S. draughtsman,599*.Morland, sketch from,592.Mort, les Simulachres de la, Lyons, 1538,328.Mosses, Thomas, wood engraver,544.Mulready, W. painter,598*.Munster, Sebastian, his Cosmography,413;his letters to Joachim Vadianus about an improvement in the mode of printing maps,417.Murr, C. G. Von, references to his Journal of Art, and other works,2,9,42,47,49,51,56,74,227,236,237,241,242,257,260,262,264,267,273,281,283,289,291.NNames of wood engravers at the back of the original blocks of the Triumphs of Maximilian,292.Naming of John the Baptist, a piece of sculpture by A. Durer,259.Nash, J. painter,599*.Nesbit, Charlton, a pupil of Bewick, notice of some of his principal cuts,519-521.Neudörffer, his account of Jerome Resch, a wood engraver, contemporary with Durer,236.Nicholson, Isaac, a pupil of Bewick,527.Northcote, James, his mode of composing the cuttings for his Fables,529n.Notarial stamps,17.Nummi bracteati,16.Nuremberg Chronicle,212.OOberlin, J. J. Essai d’Annales de la Vie de Gutenberg,125,130,136,138,140,143.Odes, two, by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts, 1760,470.Ortelius, Abraham, his collection of maps, engraved on copper, 1570,419.Ortus Sanitatis,211.Ottley, W. Y. adopts Papillon’s story of the Cunio,419;his advocacy of Coster’s pretensions,160;ascribes the introduction of cross-hatching to M. Wolgemuth,239;and the designs of the cuts in the Hypnerotomachia to Benedetto Montagna,220.Outline, in wood engraving, the difference between the white and the true,587;engravings in,590.Overlaying wood-cuts, mode of,613,645.Ovid’s Metamorphoses, printed at Venice, 1497,217.Ovingham, the parsonage at,473;the church,512.Oxford Sausage, with wood-cuts, 1764,470.PPackhouse’s machine for tints,584n.Palatino, G. B. his work on Penmanship,395.661Palmer, W. J. wood-engraver,557.Paper, proper for printing wood-cuts,646;India paper, injurious to wood-cuts,ib.Paper-mark in an old book of wood-cuts,107.Paper money, early,25n.Papillon, John, the elder,443.Papillon, John Michael, his story of the Cunio,26;his character,35;notice of his works,457-467.Parafe, or ruche,14.Parker, Archbishop, his portrait, engraved by R. Hogenberg, 1572,422.Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris,442.Parmegiano, chiaro-scuros after his designs,403.Pasti, Matteo, supposed to have designed the cuts in Valturius de Re Militari, 1472,186.Patin’s Life of Holbein,372.Patroner, the word explained,330n.Paul of Prague, his definition of “libripagus,”182.Pearson, G. wood engraver,573*,574*.Pepyr, Edmund, his mark,18.Peringskiold,14.Petit-Jehan de Saintré, Chronicle of,41.Petrarch’s Sonnets, Lyons, 1545, cuts in,400.Petronius,8,15.Pfintzing, Melchior, joint author of Sir Theurdank,282.Pfister, Albert, works printed by, at Bamberg in 1461 and 1462,170,181.Phillery, properly Willem, de figursnider, mistakes about a cut of his engraving,310.Phiz (H. K. Browne), draughtsman,599*.Piccard, T. Nieuhoff, an unknown discoverer of a painting of the Dance of Death, by Holbein,360,363.Pickersgill, F. R. painter,599*.Pictura, a wood-cut sometimes called,357.Pilgrim, John Ulric, cuts ascribed to,317.Pinkerton, John, his statement that several of the cuts in Bewick’s Quadrupeds were drawn on the block by R. Johnson,491n.Pinx. et Scalp. not to be found on early wood-cuts,35.Pirkheimer, Bilibald, letters written to him by Albert Durer,242;his letter to J. Tscherte, announcing Durer’s death,273.Pittacia, small labels,8n.Playing cards,40.Plebanus, a curate or vicar,61n.Pleydenwurff, William, with M. Wolgemuth, superintends the cuts of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1491,212.Ploughman, Pierce, his Creed,18.Plug, mode of inserting in an engraved wood-block,549.Poetry, specimen of Durer’s,260;specimens of Clennell’s, when insane,526.Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,218,220,224.Polo, Marco,25.Poor Preacher’s Bible,80-94,175-179.Portraits of Bewick, list of the principal,509.Powis, W. H. wood engraver,544.Prayer-book, Queen Elizabeth’s, 1569,427.Prenters of Antwerp in 1442,121.Press made for Gutemberg previous to 1438,127.Press, rolling, for copper-plate printing,4.Press, steam, wood-cuts printed by,644.Preusch, his attempt to print maps by a typometric process,205.Printing, Gutemberg occupied with the invention of, in 1436,127.Printing in colours, a figure of Christ, with the date 1543,403;Savage’s decorative printing,629;G. Baxter’s improvements,629;C. Knight’s patent illuminated prints and maps,630.Printing wood-cuts, best mode of,640.Priority of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,100.Procession, triumphal, of Maximilian,288,289.Procopius,13.Proofs of wood engravings, mode of unfairly taking,466,603.Prout, J. S. draughtsman,599*.Psalter, printed by Faust and Scheffer in 1457,164.Ptolemy’s Cosmography, with maps, engraved on wood, 1483,199;an edition printed by Dominico de Lapis, at Bologna,201;at Venice, by J. Pentius de Leucho, 1511,203.QQuadrin’s Historiques de la Bible,402.Quadrupeds, History of, with cuts, by Bewick, 1791,482-490.Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer-book,427.Quintilian, his notice of the manner of boys learning to write by tracing the letters through a stencil,12.RRaffaele, designs for the wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,219;a wood-cut after a drawing by, in Marcolini’s Sorti,389.Rahmenschneiders, or border-cutters,190,319.Raidel, his Dissertation on an edition of Ptolemy,201;dates, erroneous in books,ib.Raimbach, Abraham, his engraving of the Rent-day, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.Randell, a printer’s apprentice, wood-cuts by,180.Raynalde’s Birth of Mankind, with three copper-plate engravings, 1540,421.Read, S. draughtsman,599*.Rebus, or “name devises,”398.Redgrave, R. painter,599*.Relief, metallic, engraving in, erroneous statements about,305;practised by Blake and others,632-636.Rembrandt, cuts copied from etchings by,595,599,602,605.Renaudot, l’Abbé,24.Rent-day, engraving of a group from, after Sir D. Wilkie,593.Repairing wood-cuts,569n.662Reperdius, George, a painter praised by Nicholas Bourbon,356.Requeno’s Chirotipografia,44n.Revelationes Cœlestes sanctæ Brigittæ de Suecia,321.Reynolds, Nicholas, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.Reyser, George, printer of the Missale Herbipolense, 1481,202.Roberts, David, painter,599*.Robin Hood’s Garland, with wood-cut on the title-page, 1670,444,445.Rocca, Angelus, mentions a Donatus on parchment,123n.Rogers, Harry, draughtsman,599*.Rogers, William, an English copper-plate engraver, about 1600,423.Rolling-press,4.Rollers, composition, not so good as composition balls for inking certain kinds of wood-cuts,650.Roman stamps,8,10.Rotundity, how indicated by straight lines,584.Rouen Cathedral,611.Rubbing down,389.Rubens. P. P. his praise of the cuts in the Lyons Dance of Death, designed by Holbein,365;wood engravings from his designs,438,439.Ruche, or parafe,14.Runic cyphers and monograms,15.Ryther, Augustine, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.SSachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman,408.Salmincio, Andrea, wood-cuts ascribed to,441.Sandbag and block,575.Sandrart, J. his notice of the Dance of Death, with cuts designed by Holbein,365.Saspach, Conrad, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,128.Savage, W. chiaro-scuros in his hints on Decorative Printing,629;his opinion as to the best mode of working a form containing wood-cuts,647.Saxton, Christopher, his collection of English County Maps, engraved on copper, 1573-1579,420.Schapf, George, an early wood engraver,142,228.Schäufflein, Hans, painter, generally supposed to have engraved on wood,281,283,284,285,287.Schedel, Hartman, compiler of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493,212.Scheffer, Peter, a partner of Gutemberg and Faust,132;mentioned by Faust as his servant,133;a clerk, or copyist of books,167.Schelhorn’s Amœnitates,113.Schœpflin, Vindiciæ Typographicæ,125,132.Schön, Martin,74,238.Schön, Erhard,406.Schonberg, Mr. his attempts to engrave in metallic relief,634.Schönsperger, Hans, the printer of Sir Theurdank,282.Schopper, Hartman, verses by, in a book of trades and professions,409.Schoting of Nuremberg, a cut thus inscribed, the date 1584, mistaken for 1384,59.Schultheis, Hans, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,127.Schussler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.Schwartz, J. G. Documenta de Origine Typographiæ,124,133,134,142.Scopoli, mistakes Mr. B. White’s sign for the name of his partner,313.Scott, T. D. draughtsman,599*.Scrive, a tool to mark timber with,2.Scrivener and Greffier,2n.Scriverius, his account of Coster’s invention,151n.Seals, engraved,20.Sebastian, St. account of an old wood-cut of,55.Selous, H. C. painter,599*.Shade for the eyes,575.Shaw, Henry, draughtsman,599*.Shields of arms in the block-book called The Apocalypse,65;in the History of the Virgin,75,76,77,78.Sichem, Cornelius van, wood engraver,439.Silberrad, Dr. old wood-cuts in the possession of,227.Simulachres et Historiées Faces de la Mort, Lyons, 1538,328.Singer’s Researches on the History of Playing Cards,9;his unacknowledged obligations to Breitkopf,10.Skelton, Percival,550,569*.Skippe, John, chiaro-scuros engraved by,628.Slader, Samuel, wood engraver,544.Sly, Stephen, his experiments in metallic relief,636.Smith, John Orrin, wood engraver,544.Smith, Orrin. wood engraver,580*.Smyth, F. G. wood-engraver,600*.Snuff-box, George the Fourth’s, with designs, by Flaxman,590.Solis, Virgil,406.Solomon, song of, illustrations,71,72.Solomon, A. painter,599*.Solomon, Bernard, of Lyons,398-401,407.Somervile’s Chase, with cuts, designed by John Bewick,513.Sonetto figurato,395-397.Sorg, Anthony, of Augsburg, account of the Council of Constance, with wood-cuts, printed by him in 1483,189.Sorti, Marcolini’s, a work containing wood-cuts,389-393.Southey, Robert, his notice of two odes by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts,470.Spanish marks,15.Specklin, D. mentions wooden types,131.Speculum Nostræ Salutis,149.Speculum Salvationis, a misnamed block-book,95-106;cuts from,96,97,98.663Speed’s History of Britain,442.Sporer, Hans, an old briefmaler,43.Springinklee, Hans,287,320.Stabius, J. his description of the triumphal arch of Maximilian,256.Stamham, Melchior de, Abbot of St. Ulric and Afra, at Augsburg, printing-presses bought by him,165n.Stampien, to stamp with the foot as a fiddler beats time, mistaken for printing,120.Stamping of letters in manuscripts,44.Stampilla,14.Stamps, Roman,8;notarial,17.Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A.570*.Steiner, J. M. his notice of a book printed at Bamberg in 1462,170.Stencilling,12,40n.Stephenson, James, draughtsman,599*.Stereotype, early,418;modern,636.Stigmata,12.Stimmer, Christopher, and Tobias,413.Stocks, Lumb, draughtsman,599*.Stoke-field, knights and bannerets created after the battle of,191.Stonehouse, artist,591*.Stothard, Thomas, R.A. his Illustrations of Rogers’s Poems, 1812, engraved on wood,524.Strephon’s Revenge, 1724, copy of a tail-piece in,453.Sueur, le, Peter and Vincent,443;Nicholas,467.Sulman, T. draughtsman,599*.Swain, John, wood engraver,579*,581*.Swain, Joseph, wood-engraver,600*.Swedish coins,15.Sweynheim, Conrad, printer, the first that devised maps engraved on copper,200.Switzer, cuts engraved by,442.Sylvius, Æneas, his account of the Barnacle or Tree goose,415.TTail-pieces in Bewick’s Quadrupeds,486.Tell, William,416,417.Temple, W. W. a pupil of Bewick,527.Tenniel, John, artist,559,560.Terms, abstract, derived from names expressive of tangible and visible things,214.Terra-cottas, called Typi,7.Testament, Figures du Nouveau,402.Theodoric, his monogram,13.

Mary de Medici, her portrait mistaken by Papillon and Fournier for a specimen of her own engraving on wood,461.

Masters, little,320n.

Matsys, Quintin, entertains Durer,261.

Maude, Thomas, extract from his poem of the School Boy,473.

Maugerard, M. copy of an early edition of the Bible discovered by,139.

Maximilian the First, Emperor of Germany, his triumphal car and arch, designed by Durer,255;

the Adventures of Sir Theurdank, the joint composition of himself and his secretary,282-285;

works celebrating his actions,—The Wise King,286;

the Triumphal Procession,288,289.

Mazarine Bible,139n.

Meadows, Kenny, artist,597*.

Measom, Geo. wood engraver,575*.

Mechel, Christian von, of Basle, his engravings after Holbein,350.

Medals,320.

Meditationes Joannis de Turrecremata,184.

Meerman, G. his disbelief of the story of Coster’s invention,154;

and his subsequent attempts to establish its credibility,155.

Mentelin, John, printer, of Strasburg, formerly an illuminator,121.

Mentonnière,465,574.

Merchants’-marks,17.

Metallic relief engraving, erroneous statements about,305;

Blake’s metallic relief engraving,632;

portrait thus executed by Lizars,633;

Woone’s,634;

Schonberg’s,ib.;

Branston’s,ib.;

Hancock’s patent,635;

Sly’s experiments,636;

Messrs. Best, Andrew, and Leloir,ib.

Meydenbach, John, said to have been one of Gutemberg’s assistants,166.

Meydenbach, Jacobus, printer of the Hortus Sanitatis, 1491,210.

Millais, J. E. painter,598*.

Mints, provincial, for coining money,19.

Mirror of Human Salvation,95.

Mirror of the World, printed by Caxton,194.

Missale Herbipolense, with a copper-plate engraving, 1481,201.

Moffet’s Theatre of Insects,442.

Monogram,13,15.

Montagna, Benedetto, wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,220.

Monte Sancto di Dio, an early book, containing copper-plates, 1477,202.

Monumental brasses,21.

More, Sir Thomas,375.

Morgan, M. S. draughtsman,599*.

Morland, sketch from,592.

Mort, les Simulachres de la, Lyons, 1538,328.

Mosses, Thomas, wood engraver,544.

Mulready, W. painter,598*.

Munster, Sebastian, his Cosmography,413;

his letters to Joachim Vadianus about an improvement in the mode of printing maps,417.

Murr, C. G. Von, references to his Journal of Art, and other works,2,9,42,47,49,51,56,74,227,236,237,241,242,257,260,262,264,267,273,281,283,289,291.

N

Names of wood engravers at the back of the original blocks of the Triumphs of Maximilian,292.

Naming of John the Baptist, a piece of sculpture by A. Durer,259.

Nash, J. painter,599*.

Nesbit, Charlton, a pupil of Bewick, notice of some of his principal cuts,519-521.

Neudörffer, his account of Jerome Resch, a wood engraver, contemporary with Durer,236.

Nicholson, Isaac, a pupil of Bewick,527.

Northcote, James, his mode of composing the cuttings for his Fables,529n.

Notarial stamps,17.

Nummi bracteati,16.

Nuremberg Chronicle,212.

O

Oberlin, J. J. Essai d’Annales de la Vie de Gutenberg,125,130,136,138,140,143.

Odes, two, by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts, 1760,470.

Ortelius, Abraham, his collection of maps, engraved on copper, 1570,419.

Ortus Sanitatis,211.

Ottley, W. Y. adopts Papillon’s story of the Cunio,419;

his advocacy of Coster’s pretensions,160;

ascribes the introduction of cross-hatching to M. Wolgemuth,239;

and the designs of the cuts in the Hypnerotomachia to Benedetto Montagna,220.

Outline, in wood engraving, the difference between the white and the true,587;

engravings in,590.

Overlaying wood-cuts, mode of,613,645.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses, printed at Venice, 1497,217.

Ovingham, the parsonage at,473;

the church,512.

Oxford Sausage, with wood-cuts, 1764,470.

P

Packhouse’s machine for tints,584n.

Palatino, G. B. his work on Penmanship,395.

Palmer, W. J. wood-engraver,557.

Paper, proper for printing wood-cuts,646;

India paper, injurious to wood-cuts,ib.

Paper-mark in an old book of wood-cuts,107.

Paper money, early,25n.

Papillon, John, the elder,443.

Papillon, John Michael, his story of the Cunio,26;

his character,35;

notice of his works,457-467.

Parafe, or ruche,14.

Parker, Archbishop, his portrait, engraved by R. Hogenberg, 1572,422.

Parkinson’s Paradisus Terrestris,442.

Parmegiano, chiaro-scuros after his designs,403.

Pasti, Matteo, supposed to have designed the cuts in Valturius de Re Militari, 1472,186.

Patin’s Life of Holbein,372.

Patroner, the word explained,330n.

Paul of Prague, his definition of “libripagus,”182.

Pearson, G. wood engraver,573*,574*.

Pepyr, Edmund, his mark,18.

Peringskiold,14.

Petit-Jehan de Saintré, Chronicle of,41.

Petrarch’s Sonnets, Lyons, 1545, cuts in,400.

Petronius,8,15.

Pfintzing, Melchior, joint author of Sir Theurdank,282.

Pfister, Albert, works printed by, at Bamberg in 1461 and 1462,170,181.

Phillery, properly Willem, de figursnider, mistakes about a cut of his engraving,310.

Phiz (H. K. Browne), draughtsman,599*.

Piccard, T. Nieuhoff, an unknown discoverer of a painting of the Dance of Death, by Holbein,360,363.

Pickersgill, F. R. painter,599*.

Pictura, a wood-cut sometimes called,357.

Pilgrim, John Ulric, cuts ascribed to,317.

Pinkerton, John, his statement that several of the cuts in Bewick’s Quadrupeds were drawn on the block by R. Johnson,491n.

Pinx. et Scalp. not to be found on early wood-cuts,35.

Pirkheimer, Bilibald, letters written to him by Albert Durer,242;

his letter to J. Tscherte, announcing Durer’s death,273.

Pittacia, small labels,8n.

Playing cards,40.

Plebanus, a curate or vicar,61n.

Pleydenwurff, William, with M. Wolgemuth, superintends the cuts of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1491,212.

Ploughman, Pierce, his Creed,18.

Plug, mode of inserting in an engraved wood-block,549.

Poetry, specimen of Durer’s,260;

specimens of Clennell’s, when insane,526.

Poliphili Hypnerotomachia,218,220,224.

Polo, Marco,25.

Poor Preacher’s Bible,80-94,175-179.

Portraits of Bewick, list of the principal,509.

Powis, W. H. wood engraver,544.

Prayer-book, Queen Elizabeth’s, 1569,427.

Prenters of Antwerp in 1442,121.

Press made for Gutemberg previous to 1438,127.

Press, rolling, for copper-plate printing,4.

Press, steam, wood-cuts printed by,644.

Preusch, his attempt to print maps by a typometric process,205.

Printing, Gutemberg occupied with the invention of, in 1436,127.

Printing in colours, a figure of Christ, with the date 1543,403;

Savage’s decorative printing,629;

G. Baxter’s improvements,629;

C. Knight’s patent illuminated prints and maps,630.

Printing wood-cuts, best mode of,640.

Priority of editions of the Speculum Salvationis,100.

Procession, triumphal, of Maximilian,288,289.

Procopius,13.

Proofs of wood engravings, mode of unfairly taking,466,603.

Prout, J. S. draughtsman,599*.

Psalter, printed by Faust and Scheffer in 1457,164.

Ptolemy’s Cosmography, with maps, engraved on wood, 1483,199;

an edition printed by Dominico de Lapis, at Bologna,201;

at Venice, by J. Pentius de Leucho, 1511,203.

Q

Quadrin’s Historiques de la Bible,402.

Quadrupeds, History of, with cuts, by Bewick, 1791,482-490.

Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer-book,427.

Quintilian, his notice of the manner of boys learning to write by tracing the letters through a stencil,12.

R

Raffaele, designs for the wood-cuts of the Hypnerotomachia ascribed to him,219;

a wood-cut after a drawing by, in Marcolini’s Sorti,389.

Rahmenschneiders, or border-cutters,190,319.

Raidel, his Dissertation on an edition of Ptolemy,201;

dates, erroneous in books,ib.

Raimbach, Abraham, his engraving of the Rent-day, after Sir D. Wilkie,213.

Randell, a printer’s apprentice, wood-cuts by,180.

Raynalde’s Birth of Mankind, with three copper-plate engravings, 1540,421.

Read, S. draughtsman,599*.

Rebus, or “name devises,”398.

Redgrave, R. painter,599*.

Relief, metallic, engraving in, erroneous statements about,305;

practised by Blake and others,632-636.

Rembrandt, cuts copied from etchings by,595,599,602,605.

Renaudot, l’Abbé,24.

Rent-day, engraving of a group from, after Sir D. Wilkie,593.

Repairing wood-cuts,569n.

Reperdius, George, a painter praised by Nicholas Bourbon,356.

Requeno’s Chirotipografia,44n.

Revelationes Cœlestes sanctæ Brigittæ de Suecia,321.

Reynolds, Nicholas, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.

Reyser, George, printer of the Missale Herbipolense, 1481,202.

Roberts, David, painter,599*.

Robin Hood’s Garland, with wood-cut on the title-page, 1670,444,445.

Rocca, Angelus, mentions a Donatus on parchment,123n.

Rogers, Harry, draughtsman,599*.

Rogers, William, an English copper-plate engraver, about 1600,423.

Rolling-press,4.

Rollers, composition, not so good as composition balls for inking certain kinds of wood-cuts,650.

Roman stamps,8,10.

Rotundity, how indicated by straight lines,584.

Rouen Cathedral,611.

Rubbing down,389.

Rubens. P. P. his praise of the cuts in the Lyons Dance of Death, designed by Holbein,365;

wood engravings from his designs,438,439.

Ruche, or parafe,14.

Runic cyphers and monograms,15.

Ryther, Augustine, an English engraver on copper, 1575,420.

S

Sachs, Hans, his descriptions of cuts designed by Jost Amman,408.

Salmincio, Andrea, wood-cuts ascribed to,441.

Sandbag and block,575.

Sandrart, J. his notice of the Dance of Death, with cuts designed by Holbein,365.

Saspach, Conrad, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,128.

Savage, W. chiaro-scuros in his hints on Decorative Printing,629;

his opinion as to the best mode of working a form containing wood-cuts,647.

Saxton, Christopher, his collection of English County Maps, engraved on copper, 1573-1579,420.

Schapf, George, an early wood engraver,142,228.

Schäufflein, Hans, painter, generally supposed to have engraved on wood,281,283,284,285,287.

Schedel, Hartman, compiler of the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493,212.

Scheffer, Peter, a partner of Gutemberg and Faust,132;

mentioned by Faust as his servant,133;

a clerk, or copyist of books,167.

Schelhorn’s Amœnitates,113.

Schœpflin, Vindiciæ Typographicæ,125,132.

Schön, Martin,74,238.

Schön, Erhard,406.

Schonberg, Mr. his attempts to engrave in metallic relief,634.

Schönsperger, Hans, the printer of Sir Theurdank,282.

Schopper, Hartman, verses by, in a book of trades and professions,409.

Schoting of Nuremberg, a cut thus inscribed, the date 1584, mistaken for 1384,59.

Schultheis, Hans, his evidence in the Drytzehns’ suit against Gutemberg, 1438,127.

Schussler, John, a printer of Augsburg,180.

Schwartz, J. G. Documenta de Origine Typographiæ,124,133,134,142.

Scopoli, mistakes Mr. B. White’s sign for the name of his partner,313.

Scott, T. D. draughtsman,599*.

Scrive, a tool to mark timber with,2.

Scrivener and Greffier,2n.

Scriverius, his account of Coster’s invention,151n.

Seals, engraved,20.

Sebastian, St. account of an old wood-cut of,55.

Selous, H. C. painter,599*.

Shade for the eyes,575.

Shaw, Henry, draughtsman,599*.

Shields of arms in the block-book called The Apocalypse,65;

in the History of the Virgin,75,76,77,78.

Sichem, Cornelius van, wood engraver,439.

Silberrad, Dr. old wood-cuts in the possession of,227.

Simulachres et Historiées Faces de la Mort, Lyons, 1538,328.

Singer’s Researches on the History of Playing Cards,9;

his unacknowledged obligations to Breitkopf,10.

Skelton, Percival,550,569*.

Skippe, John, chiaro-scuros engraved by,628.

Slader, Samuel, wood engraver,544.

Sly, Stephen, his experiments in metallic relief,636.

Smith, John Orrin, wood engraver,544.

Smith, Orrin. wood engraver,580*.

Smyth, F. G. wood-engraver,600*.

Snuff-box, George the Fourth’s, with designs, by Flaxman,590.

Solis, Virgil,406.

Solomon, song of, illustrations,71,72.

Solomon, A. painter,599*.

Solomon, Bernard, of Lyons,398-401,407.

Somervile’s Chase, with cuts, designed by John Bewick,513.

Sonetto figurato,395-397.

Sorg, Anthony, of Augsburg, account of the Council of Constance, with wood-cuts, printed by him in 1483,189.

Sorti, Marcolini’s, a work containing wood-cuts,389-393.

Southey, Robert, his notice of two odes by Lloyd and Colman, with wood-cuts,470.

Spanish marks,15.

Specklin, D. mentions wooden types,131.

Speculum Nostræ Salutis,149.

Speculum Salvationis, a misnamed block-book,95-106;

cuts from,96,97,98.

Speed’s History of Britain,442.

Sporer, Hans, an old briefmaler,43.

Springinklee, Hans,287,320.

Stabius, J. his description of the triumphal arch of Maximilian,256.

Stamham, Melchior de, Abbot of St. Ulric and Afra, at Augsburg, printing-presses bought by him,165n.

Stampien, to stamp with the foot as a fiddler beats time, mistaken for printing,120.

Stamping of letters in manuscripts,44.

Stampilla,14.

Stamps, Roman,8;

notarial,17.

Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A.570*.

Steiner, J. M. his notice of a book printed at Bamberg in 1462,170.

Stencilling,12,40n.

Stephenson, James, draughtsman,599*.

Stereotype, early,418;

modern,636.

Stigmata,12.

Stimmer, Christopher, and Tobias,413.

Stocks, Lumb, draughtsman,599*.

Stoke-field, knights and bannerets created after the battle of,191.

Stonehouse, artist,591*.

Stothard, Thomas, R.A. his Illustrations of Rogers’s Poems, 1812, engraved on wood,524.

Strephon’s Revenge, 1724, copy of a tail-piece in,453.

Sueur, le, Peter and Vincent,443;

Nicholas,467.

Sulman, T. draughtsman,599*.

Swain, John, wood engraver,579*,581*.

Swain, Joseph, wood-engraver,600*.

Swedish coins,15.

Sweynheim, Conrad, printer, the first that devised maps engraved on copper,200.

Switzer, cuts engraved by,442.

Sylvius, Æneas, his account of the Barnacle or Tree goose,415.

T

Tail-pieces in Bewick’s Quadrupeds,486.

Tell, William,416,417.

Temple, W. W. a pupil of Bewick,527.

Tenniel, John, artist,559,560.

Terms, abstract, derived from names expressive of tangible and visible things,214.

Terra-cottas, called Typi,7.

Testament, Figures du Nouveau,402.

Theodoric, his monogram,13.


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