5 2 REMARKS ON FALLACIOUS 



On the arm which holds the child there is, in the old 

 impreffions, a pretty broad light, but in the modern 

 it is all over ffiaded. In the reft of the drapery, as 

 well as in the various compartments of the landfchape, 

 all is, in the modern impreffions, overloaded and co- 

 vered with etching, whereby many tender lights are 

 entirely loft. , On the whole, the antient and original 

 Mary of Durer is a well-bred, good-natured, plump 

 Nurenburg citizen's wife, like all his other Maries : 

 whereas this is a fubtle, lank, fcraggy italian opera 



girl. V^^^^f^ 

 Of this antient print we have a crofs copy on the 

 fame fide. 



Mary with the monkey, No. 42. Of this copy 

 Huike knew no more than of the former. It is on the 

 fame iide with the original, and without the mark of 

 Wierix, but extremely well executed. In the original 

 the head of the monkey is fo black that not any white 

 appears in it, except the eye-lids, the hair under the 

 nofe, and the lower lip, with the hair of the cheeks. 

 In the original the head of the virgin is fo drawn, that 

 the mouth has not that twift upwards in the corner as 

 it has in the copy, but makes a flight turn towards the 

 right lide. The fides of the nofe are much larger in 

 the copy. The folds of the drapery in the copy are too 

 ftifT, and look like bronze. The fhades are nearly 

 without reflex, and too flat. All the ftrokes in the 

 landfchape are too hard, and are quite deftitute of 

 keeping, as well as the clouds. The tail of the mon- 

 key in the original is as it were broke off, and bends 

 outwards at the end. In the copy it appears entire, 



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