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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 197 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_200.jpg |
| Transcript | collet intings and drawings which they ncil of Nuremberg seem to I which were immediately under then II not actually in their possession. In a short time Rudolph became poiseiatd of the bulk of Dun and drawings at Prague or Vienna. remain in the Imperial collection to this day, and a large portion of the drawings now forms nucleus of what is known as the 4 Albertina' collection [ ■other portion of the Irnhoif collection found collector in the Netherlands, perhaps through one ol governors, into that oi Hans Sloans, and is now in the print-room at the British um. These two collection*, togt* the great collection, which official industry and acumen have brought •lin, arc the best held for the study of Di work as a draugh- ough in some of the smaller pul.i ate collections »ome of the moat remarkable exam; be found. mberg cominoed their work of convi .orkt into hard cash whenever the oppor tunity occurred. In 15S5 the Town Council persuaded or compelled the governors of the Landaner almshouses to sell to t: 1 Rudolph their great painting of AA £***&>. replacing it by a copy which, by way of carrying out the deception, wn inserted in the original frame designed by Dun Adsm W E%* also appear to have passed same Imperial hands. In 1627 the Council sold to the Kl milian of Bavaria the two great panels of the Fmr Prteckt and replaced them by copies. The lor.. ions from the Bible were cut off from the original panels and added on below the copies. A few years before, in 161 j, they had : lector with the beautiful B- altar l place in Church at Nuremberg. The tw< Cwms same channel: and the Praun collection at Nuremberg yielded up the portrait of V and the P°m Worst of ail, the portrait of tl zcn. the world-famous portrait of akh had become actually the property of th, to co! ngenious craftsman sawed the panel in half. hi« copy on to the back, on which were seal and other marks of ownership, and sold '97 |