COPIES OF ALBERT DURER. 55 



the copy. All the delicate ihades of the ftone are loft 

 in the cube. The enlightened lide is much too uni- 

 formly bright. The principal light in the water is 

 given too fcanty, and has no connection with the en- 

 lightened more. The child on the mill-ftone, is far 

 too bright in regard to the whole, and the light is too 

 diffunVe in the fcales of the balance. The prominent 

 leaves in the wreath of the principal figure are too ftiff, 

 and the fpread of the feathers of the wings too copioufly 

 difplayed. All the breaks of the drapery are more like 

 wet paper than in the original, and the fhadows are too 

 hard. The M in Melancolia is more an inverted 

 in the original, whereas in the copy it is a modern M. 

 The rays of the fun are without tranfparency, and 

 much too ftifF. The teeth of the faw are not regularly 

 difpofed, and the lhades of the blade not brought fmall 

 enough. 



The coat of arms with the cock. This copy is the 

 moft deceitful of all. It is only by the greater! pains 

 that this can be diftinguifhed even when contrafted 

 with the original. On the whole, however, the diffe- 

 rence is feen in this, that there is more keeping parti- 

 cularly in the cock, and in the label of the arms, that 

 the ftrokes are drawn far bolder, and the principal 

 fhades are much more powerful, plus nourries. The 

 head of the cock appears more ftretched out in the ori- 

 ginal, and the bird itfelf more fc reaming, and all in 

 the feathers more ftrutting and proportionably more 

 animated. 



The little fatyr. No. 80. The oblique ftroke, and 

 the line that tends downwards to the left, in the mark 

 of Alb. Durer, are much flronger and blacker in the 



e 4 ' original. 



