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A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING
Fig. 10.—The Fifth Day of Creation. From Schedel's "Liber Chronicarum" Nuremberg, 1493.
the Kings of Hungary—a battle-piece does for any conflict, or a man on a throne for any king. The representations were typical rather than individual. In some of the designs there is, doubtless, a careful truthfulness, as in the view of Nuremberg, and perhaps in some of the portraits. The larger cuts show considerable vigor and boldness of conception, but none of them are so good as the illustrations, also attributed to Wohlgemuth, in the Schatzbehalter, published
