COPIES OP ALBERT DURER. 53 



■and turns downwards near the tip. The grafs and 

 fedge in the back-ground is alfo too hard in the copy. 



The faint Chriitopher, looking above him. 



The child in the copy has his eyes quite fhut. The 

 fingers of it are particularized. The drapery of the 

 child is too itiff. The beard of old Chriftopher falls 

 too much below the chin. The teeth are not fo plainly 

 difcernible as in the original. The whole drapery is in 

 all its parts too ftirf. The tree is too hard, and quite 

 augfburgified. 



Mary, with the crown of ftars, of the year 151 6. 

 The copy is on the oppolite fide ; and, inflead of 15 16, 

 it has 1578. 



The little Albertus. Sic oculos fie ille genas lie ora 

 ferebat. The upper eye -lid is cut off in the copy. In 

 the original the eye-brow is higher than in the copy ; 

 and the latter is more ftrongly fhaded behind, whereas 

 in the original it is quite weak, as it mould be. In the 

 hair a too ftrong light prevails throughout. The un- 

 der lip in the original is very much broader and 

 ftronger than the upper, here in the copy this difrinc- 

 tion is not eafily perceptible. In the copy the flit of 

 the mouth is much too fharp, as well as the upper lip. 

 The mufcles of the cheeks look as though they were 

 excoriated, and the hair is much too abruptly curtailed. 

 The under garment is too ftift, efpecially about the 

 neck, where it opens. 



The great crucifixion, No. 26. This copy is ex- 

 ceedingly well executed, only it is reverfed; and, 

 upon conlidering it attentively, we find that the care 

 of the copyirTs to preferve the expreffion, has occa- 



e 3 Honed 



