54 REMARKS ON FALLACIOUS 



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fioned them to fall under the neceffity of making all 

 the countenances too elevated. 



The holy handkerchief, as it is called;- No, 22, 

 Of this handkerchief a very deceitful copy is in circu- 

 lation, without Wierix's name to it. In the head of 

 Chrift the left eye is particularized. The upper eye- 

 lid not properly provided with reflex. The under eye- 

 lid too bright. The principal thorn-point in the crown 

 in the original goes upwards to the left, in the copy it 

 ftrikes downwards. The angels in the copy are mife- 

 rably executed. Drapery and every thing belonging 

 to them is infignificant. The trains are deftxoyed in 

 the fhading. The angel that lifts its extended hand 

 to the left in the original, in the copy raifes it to the 

 right fide. 



Melancholy. The copy of which I fpeak is beauti- 

 ful, and impoiing to the higheft degree. Without 

 cont rafting it with the original, it is difficult to pafs a 

 judgment upon it. However, the whole drapery is 

 without keeping, and it has not the fuitable reflex, as 

 in the original. The Ihadings of it are partly too nar- 

 row, and deftitute of intelligence. The wards of the 

 keys are not properly executed. In the copy the mid- 

 dle ward is much too large. In the original it appears 

 like an inverted The lower ward is likewife too 

 ftrong and too deep in the copy. 



The head of the doer is as if it was fkinned s the 

 right eye is too fmall, and more fhut than in the ori- 

 ginal. The light of the upper lid is directed to the 

 ground. The ear is too ftifF, as well as the mufcles of 

 the neck, and the light of the whole body is too cal- 

 low, The iron of the hammer is kept too bright in 



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