Examples of using Douce writes in English and their translations into Danish
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Douce writes about this publication.
Later on in the same book- on page 253 just before the 49 woodcuts are presented, Douce writes.
Douce writes about this publication: No.
Personally I think the H is just as jocular as the other initials in Libro sotilissimo as Douce writes.
Francis Douce writes about Holbein's initials.
Here is a selection of the other initials:Francis Douce writes about a single initial letter: Bibliothecae Ecclesiasticae, V In Vol.
Douce writes that at the bottom of the frame with Time and Eternity is written»Ab a Diepenbecke inu.
Personally I think the H is just as jocular as the other initials in Libro sotilissimo(as Douce writes:»with considerable spirit«), and the H is as a rule printed more clearly than the rest of the initials of this alphabet.
Rancis Douce writes about different dance of death alphabets after Holbein.
Then in 1544 came the Bible that Douce described:» Biblia sacrosancta Testamenti«. The A and C were used,and as Douce writes, there were new letters: F, O, Q and S. Douce calls them coarse and he may be right in this, but they are not without their charm.
Douce writes in 1794(page 26) that he has seen a dance of death alphabet, which at the bottom is signed" Hans Lützelburger Formschneider in Basel.
Hans Holbein's dance of death alphabet, Hans Schott(1477-1548) Hans Schott(1477-1548)The letter M from the little series The letter M from the big series rancis Douce writes about different dance of death alphabets after Holbein: They were badly copied, and with occasional variations, for books printed at Strasburg by J. Schott about 1540.
Francis Douce writes about a single initial letter.
Douce writes that at the bottom of the frame with Time and Eternity is written» Ab a Diepenbecke inu. W: Hollar fecit«, and the same on the frame with Minerva and Hercules, where the year 1651 has also been added.
I bring most of them below on this page, for as Douce writes they are»well cut on wood«,»with much spirit« and»very finely engraved on wood«, and they were clearly executed by the same artist.
As Douce writes, the dance is placed at the bottom of each page, and even though Douce doesn't say it in so many words, these 30 figures are the same as those we know from Simon Vostre and from the Parisian Danse Macabre.
Francis Douce, The dance of death exhibited in elegant engravings on wood, 1833,page 71 As Douce writes, the dance is placed at the bottom of each page, and even though Douce doesn't say it in so many words, these 30 figures are the same as those we know from Simon Vostre and from the Parisian Danse Macabre.
Douce writes:» executed in a style perhaps nowhere else to be met with«, and Douce is right, for when wrote this in 1833, it would still take another century for this expressionistic style to come into fashion.
The A and C were used, and as Douce writes, there were new letters: F, O, Q and S. Douce calls them coarse and he may be right in this, but they are not without their charm.
Nevertheless hardly anybody had ever thought that Holbein's dance of death wasn't by Holbein, before Douce wrote his essay.
Douce first writes(page 109):»XI.
This one description was written by Douce, and the result was rather bizarre see picture to the right.
Thus all that Bodleian's Librarian had to do in order to receive this enormous collection was to dedicate a room and write"Douce" above the door.
N the page about Francis Douce I write that the woodcuts from Holbein's dance of death that you will find on the Net, in fact very often are copies produced for Douce's famous book from 1833 and- probably- executed by Bonner& Byfield.
Ack in 1794 Douce had written an essay about dances of death- as a preface to an edition of Hollars etchings.