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 EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF 
 
 HANS SEBALD BEHAM 
 
 BORN 1500 DIED 1550 
 
 AND BARTHEL BEHAM 
 
 BORN 1502 DIED 1540 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE BURLINGTON 
 
 FINE ARTS CLUB 
 
 1877 
 
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 EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF 
 
 HANS SEBALD BEHAM 
 
 BORN 1500 DIED 1550 
 
 AND BARTHEL BEHAM 
 
 BORN 1502 DIED 1540 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE BURLINGTON 
 FINE ARTS CLUB 
 
 1877 
 
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INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 
 
 ANS SEBALD BEHAM was born at Nuremberg in the 
 year 1 500, his brother Barthel two years later. The 
 founder of the family, as the name implies, came originally 
 from Bohemia, and is fuppofed to have fettled in Nurem- 
 berg towards the end of the 14th century. 
 
 The immediate parentage of the two brothers is un- 
 known, nor are there any authentic records of their early life. They are 
 generally fuppofed to have been fcholars of Albert Durer, of which there is 
 no aftual proof, but it is manifeft the great mafter influenced them deeply. 
 Both brothers feem to have been received as citizens and mafter craftfmen of 
 their native city in 1524. At that time the dodrines of the Reformation 
 had there taken deep root, and the Behams were ftrongly tainted by the 
 extreme views of the Reformers Karlftadt and Miinzer, who were expelled 
 by the authorities, and the Council took proceedings againft the two brothers, 
 and George Penz, the painter. After lengthened interrogatories, in which 
 they avowed their unbelief in Chriftianity and all conftituted authority, they 
 were baniflied from Nuremberg. 
 
 Of Hans Sebald we have no further record until 1528, when he would 
 appear to have again returned to the city, and in 1530, on the occafion of 
 the entry of Charles V, into Munich, both the brothers were there pro- 
 feffionally employed : Barthel in engraving the portraits of Charles V. and 
 Ferdinand I. (B. 60-61), and Hans Sebald in making the drawing for the 
 large woodcut (B. 169) commemorative of the event. 
 
 In 1534 Hans Sebald permanently left Nuremberg, and eftablifhed 
 
IntroduSiory Notice. 
 
 himfelf at Frankfort. Here he worked for Chriftian Egenolph, who firft 
 inftituted a printing-prefs hi that city. Various books, principally religious, 
 publifhed by him, were illuftrated with the woodcuts of Hans Sebald Beham. 
 The remainder of his life was pafTed at Frankfort, where he died in 1550. 
 The ftory which long obtained credence, that he had been drowned in the 
 River Maine by order of the Council, as a punifhment for his immoral and 
 licentious living, is a mere fable ; during the later years of his hfe it is alleged 
 that he kept a tavern, the frequenters of which, from his engravings of 
 them, were not of the moft orderly charadler, and hence probably the origin 
 of the above ftory. 
 
 Hans Sebald Beham is principally known by his engravings and 
 woodcuts, a large and interefting colle6lion of the former being exhibited, 
 which fhow the diverfified nature of the fubjedls his pencil was employed 
 upon. His prints of ornaments were of great value to the goldfmiths of the 
 day, and many of the old German pottery jugs are decorated with defigns, 
 copied from them. 
 
 His reprefentations of the life of the lower orders introduce us to the 
 manners and cuftoms of the German peafantry of the period, and as fuch are 
 of the greateft intereft. 
 
 But one authentic oil-painting by him is recognized, a table top with 
 fcenes from the life of King David, now in the Louvre. The Library of 
 AfchafFenburg preferves the German MifTal of Cardinal Albert of Mayence, 
 illuftrated with miniatures by Hans Sebald Beham and Nicholas Glockenton, 
 five out of eight of them being by the hand of our mafter. 
 
 His drawings are of great rarity. The Albertina at Vienna and the 
 Mufeum of Berlin contain each a few, and a fet of fmall round compofitions, 
 medallion-like, prepared apparently for metal-chafing, is preferved in the 
 Academy of Venice. 
 
 Of the life of Barthel Beham we have but fcant information. In 1527, 
 after his expulfion from his native city, he was employed by the Duke of 
 Bavaria at Munich. Here he painted various portraits of the ducal family, 
 moft of them now in a very ruined ftate, being ftill to be feen in the galleries of 
 Schleifsheim ; his fineft pidures, two large triptychs, executed for the Counts 
 of Zimmern, adorn the gallery of Prince Furftenberg at Donauefchingen. 
 Being fent to Italy by Duke William, who held him in great efteem, he died 
 there in i 540. 
 
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 CATALOGUE. 
 
 HANS SEBALD BEHAM. 
 
 T/ie Roman Numerals refer to the Frames. The numbers in BartfcKs Peintre Graveur 
 
 are in brackets. 
 
 I. Early Works in Chronological Order. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 I. A Girl's Head, 1518 (B. 204). 2. Head of Chrift, 1519 (B. 27). 
 3. St. Jerome, 1519 (B. 59). 4. The Saviour of the World, 1520 (B. 26). 
 5. Head of Chrift, 1520 (B. 28). 6-12. Chrift, with the Twelve Apoftles 
 in pairs, feven prints (B. ^^ to 42). 13. Virgin and Child, ift ftate, 1520 
 (B. 17). 14. The fame, 2nd ftate. 15. Virgin and Child, 1520 (B. 18). 
 16. St. Jerome (B. 60). 17. St. Jerome (B. 62). 
 
 II. Early Works. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 18. Dido, 1520, 2nd ftate (B. 80). 19. A Soldier, etching, 1520 (B. 
 203). 20. Peafant, 1520, 2nd ftate (B. 191). 21. Lucrece, 1519, ift ftate 
 (B. 78). 22. The fame, 2nd ftate. 23. St. Sebald, 1521, 2nd ftate (B. 65). 
 24. Triton and Nymph, 1523 (B. 87). 25. Fortitude, 1524 (not in B.). 
 26. Vafe, 1530 (B. 241). 27. Judith (B. 10). 28. Achilles (B. 68). 29. 
 Cimon and Pero, etching (B. 73). 30. Four Centaurs, ift ftate (B. 94). 31. 
 The Combat, 2nd ftate (B. 95). 32. Charity (B. 137). ZZ- Study of 
 Horfe's Head (B. 218). 
 
 III. Lent by Mr. Fifher. 
 
 34. Vignette (B. 227). 35. Vafe, 1524 (B. 243). 36. Vafe, 1531 
 (B. 242). This is Beham's earlieft dated work figned h.s.b. 37. Vafe 
 
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 (B. 233). 38. The Feaft (B. 164). 39. The Bride (B. 185). 40. Two 
 Buffoons, I ft ftate (B. 213). 41. Buffoon with four Lovers, the undated 
 plate (B. 212). 42. The fame. 
 
 IV. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 43. Chryfoftom, ift ftate (B. 215). 44. The fame, 3rd ftate. 45. The 
 fame, 4th ftate. 46. Study of a Man's Head, 1542 (B. 219). 47. A 
 Woman's Head, 1542 (B. 220). 48. Man at Market (B. 186). 49. 
 Woman at Market (B. 187). 50, 51. Farmer and his Man (B. 188, 189). 
 52-58. The Seven Liberal Sciences (B. 121-127). 
 
 V. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 59. The Little Buffoon (B. 230). 60. The Roman Alphabet (B. 229). 
 61. Three Shields (B. 222). 62. Three Shields (Paffavant, 272). (i^- 
 Imaginary Arms (B. 255). 64. Arms of Durer (B. 258). 65. Arms of 
 H. S. Beham (B. 254). 66. The Cock Coat of Arms (B. 256). 67. The 
 Eagle Coat of Arms (B. 257). 68. The Paroquet Coat of Arms, unfigned. 
 
 VI. Lent by Mr. Fifher. 
 
 69-76. Knowledge and the Seven Virtues (B. 129-136). 76a. The 
 Arms of Durer (B. 258). 76b. Arms with a Genius (B. 259). 
 
 VII. Lent by Mr. Fifher. 
 77-87. The Great Feftival (B. 154-163). 
 
 VIII. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 88. Soldiers, ift ftate (B. 199). 89. The fame, 2nd ftate. 90. Soldiers, 
 ift ftate (B. 198). 91. Soldiers and Dog (B. 196). 92. Soldiers and Powder 
 Barrels (B. 197). 93. Satyr (B. iii). 94. Great Feftival, No. 2, ift ftate 
 (B. 155). 95. Great Feftival, No. 3, ift ftate (B. 156). 96. Great Feftival, 
 No. 5 (B. 158). 97. Great Feftival, No. 6 (B. 159). 98. Great Feftival, 
 No. 8 (B. 161). 99. Peafants Fighting (B. 165). 100. Little Feftival, 
 No. I (B. 166). loi. Little Feftival, No. 2 (B. 167). 102. Little Feftival, 
 No. 8 (B. 173). 103. The Wedding, No. i (B. 178). 104. The Wedding^ 
 No. 2 (B. 179). 105. The Wedding, No. 3 (B. 180). 106. The Wed- 
 ding, No. 8. The Bride and Bridegroom (B. 185). 
 
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 IX. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 107. Fortune, ift ftate (B. 140). 108. Misfortune, ift ftate (B. 141). 
 109. Leda, 2nd flate (B. 112). no. Seven Children (B. 210). iii. Venus, 
 (B. 90). 
 
 X, Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 112. The Marriage in Cana, ift ftate (B. 23). 113. Mary Magdalene, 
 2nd ftate (B. 25). 114. The Woman of Samaria (B. 24), 115. Venus 
 (B. 91). 116. Judgment of Paris, ift ftate (B. 89), 117. Chryfoftom, 
 3rd ftate (B. 215). 
 
 XI. Lent by Mr. FiJJier. 
 
 118. The Expulfion, 2nd ftate (B. 7). 119. Adam and Eve (B. 5). 
 
 XII. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 120-13 1. The Twelve Apoftles (B. 43-54). 
 
 XIII. Lent by Mr. Fi/Jier. 
 132-135. The Four Evangelifts (B. 55-58). 
 
 XIV. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 136. St. Peter, ift ftate (B. 43). 137. St. Andrew, ift ftate (B. 44). 
 138. St. James, ift ftate (B. 45). 139. St. John, ift ftate (B. 46). 140. 
 St. Philip, ift ftate (B. 47). 141. St. Bartholomew, ift ftate (B. 48). 
 142. St. Thomas, ift ftate (B. 49). 143. The fame, 2nd ftate. 144. St. 
 Matthew, ift ftate (B. 50). 145. St. James, ift ftate (B. 51). 146. The 
 fame, 2nd ftate. 147. St. Jude, 2nd ftate (B. 52). 148. St. Simon, ift 
 ftate (B. 53). 149. St. Matthias, 2nd ftate (B. 54). 150-153. The Four 
 Evangelifts (B. 55-58). 
 
 XV. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 154-166. The Twelve Apoftles, of which St. Jude (B. 52) is in ift 
 ftate and 2nd ftate. 
 
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 XVI, Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 167. Job, ift ftate (B. 16). 168. Woman of Samaria (B. 24). 169 
 
 Marriage in Cana, ift ftate (B, 23). 170. The Saviour (B. 30), 171 
 
 Triumph of Chriftianity, ift ftate (B. 128). 172. The fame, 2nd ftate 
 
 173. Virgin and Child, ift ftate (B. 19). 174. The fame, 2nd ftate 
 
 175. The Expulfion, ift ftate (B. 7). 176. The fame, 2nd ftate. 177 
 The Temptation, 2nd ftate (B. 6). 178. Adam and Eve (B. 5). 
 
 XVII. Lent by Mr. Fi/her. 
 
 179. Virgin and Child, 2nd ftate (B. 19). 180. The Saviour (B. 30). 
 181. The Saviour (B. 36). 182. The Virgin and Child with the ikull 
 (B. 20). 183. Job, ift ftate (B. 16). 
 
 XVIII. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 184. Trajan, ift ftate (B. 82). 185. The fame, 2nd ftate. 186. 
 The fame, undefcribed ftate. 187. The Jefter and the Lovers (B. 212), 
 the print dated 1535. 188. The undated print. 189. The fame, a worn- 
 out impreffion, ftiowing that No. 187 is not a later ftate of No. 188. 190. 
 Melancholy, 2nd ftate (B. 144). 191. The fame, 3rd ftate. 192. The fame, 
 4th ftate. 193. Death and the Lady, ift ftate as defcribed (B. 149). 194. 
 The fame, 2nd ftate defcribed (but 3rd). 195. Buffbon and the Lady, 
 etching (B. 148). 196. Patience, ift ftate (B. 138). 197. The fame, 2nd 
 ftate. 198. Two Buffoons, 2nd ftate (B. 213). 
 
 XIX. Lent by Mr. Fi/her. 
 
 199. Three Women and Death, ift ftate (B. 151). 200. Death and 
 the Lady, ift defcribed ftate (but 2nd), (B. 149). 201. Death and a Wo- 
 man (B. 150). 202. The fame fubjed, the copy defcribed B. 150. 203. 
 Peafants Fighting (B. 165). 204. The Temptation, 2nd ftate (B. 6). 
 
 XX. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 
 205. Lady and Death, ift ftate undefcribed (B, 149). 206. Soldiers, 
 ift ftate (B. 198). 
 
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 XXI. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 207. Mafcaron, ift ftate (B, 228). 208. Sleeping Child (B. 211). 
 209. Head of Chrift (B, 29). 210. The Temptation, ift ftate (B. 6). 
 211. Female Satyr (B. no). 212. Two Jefters, ift ftate (B. 213). 213. 
 Cupids riding Chimasras, ift ftate undefcribed (B. 236). 
 
 XXII. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 
 214. Judith (B, 11). 215. The fame, copy by Wierix, lent by Mr, 
 Loftie. 
 
 XXIII. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 216-223. Labours of Hercules, 8 prints (B. 96-103). 
 
 XXIV. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 
 224-227. Labours of Hercules (B. 104-107). 228. The Village 
 Feftival, No. 8 (B. 161). 229. Peafants Fighting (B. 165). 230. Village 
 Feftival, No. 9 (B. 162). 
 
 XXV. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 231-234. Four Scenes from the fet of the Paflion, woodcuts (B. 88-91). 
 
 XXVI. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 235-238. Four Scenes from the fet of the Paflion, woodcuts (B. 84-87). 
 
 XXVII. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 239. The Daughter of Herodias, woodcut (Pafs. 174). 
 
 XXVIII. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 240. Woodcut title border to German Bible, Nuremburg, 1530. 
 
 XXIX. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 241. Maflc, ift ftate (B. 231). 242. The fame, 2nd ftate. 243. 
 Cupids on Chimaeras, 2nd ftate (B. 236). 244. Mafcaron, 2nd ftate (B. 
 228). 245. Vignette (B. 224). 246. Vignette (B. 225). 247. Orna- 
 ment with Fifties' Heads (B. 235). 248-251. Four Capitals and Bafes 
 (B. 247-250). 252. Three Capitals (B. 251). 
 
8 Hans Sebald Beham. 
 
 XXX. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 253-272. Labours of Hercules (B. 96-107), chiefly in two fl:ates, and 
 one in three. 273. The Rape of Helen, 2nd fl:ate (B. 70). 274. The 
 Triumph of Good Women (B. 143). 
 
 XXXI. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 275. The Table of Cebes, woodcut {fee Rofenberg, p. 133, No. 8). 
 
 XXXII. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 276. Fortune, ift ftate (B, 140). 277. The fame, 2nd fl:ate. 278. 
 Misfortune, I fl; fl:ate (B. 141). 279. The fame, 2nd ftate. 280. The fame, 
 3rd ftate. 281. Title-page of the fet of Planets, the ift print (B. 113). 
 282-288. The Planets, all 2nd ftates (B. 1 14-120). 289. Judgment of 
 Paris, 2nd ftate (B. 89). 290. Cimon and Pero (B. 74). 291. Death 
 Seizing a Woman (B. 150). 292. Lucretia, 2nd ftate (B. 79). 293. 
 Cleopatra (B. 77). 294. Leda, ift ftate (B. 112), 295. The fame, 2nd 
 ftate. 296. Impoflible, ift ftate (B. 145). 297. The fame, 2nd ftate. 
 298. Cimon and Pero, ift ftate (B. 75). 299. The fame, 2nd ftate. 
 
 XXXIII. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 300. The Planet Jupiter, woodcut (Pafs. 214). 301. The Planet 
 Venus, woodcut (Pafs. 217). 
 
 XXXIV. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 302. The Planet Mars, woodcut (Pafs. 215). 303. The Planet Saturn, 
 woodcut (Pafs. 213). 
 
 XXXV. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 304. The Moon (Diana), woodcut (Pafs. 219). 305. The Planet 
 Mercury, woodcut (Pafs. 218). 
 
 XXXVI. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 306. The Prodigal, 1538 (B. 35). 307. The fame, retouch. 308. 
 The Prodigal leaving Home, ift ftate, before the defign was enlarged (B, 31). 
 
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 309. The fame, 2nd ftate. 310. The Prodigal feedhig Swhie, 2nd ftate 
 (B. 32). 311. The fame, 3rd ftate. 312. The Prodigal Feafting, ift ftate 
 (B- ZZ)' Z^Z- The fame, 2nd ftate. 314. The Prodigal's Return, ift 
 ftate (B, 34). 315. The fame, 2nd ftate. 316. The fame, 3rd ftate. 
 
 XXXVII. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 317. The Holy Family, woodcut (B. 123). 318. The fame, with date 
 152T, probably an earlier ftate. 
 
 XXXVIII. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 319. Holy Family, woodcut (B. 122). 
 
 Lent by Mr. Fi/Jier. 
 
 320, The fame fubjedl (B. 123). 321. The fame fubjed (B. 121). 
 
 XXXIX. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 322. Scene from the fet of the Pafllon, woodcut (B. 89). 323. A 
 Winged Female feated upon a Skeleton, woodcut (B. 145). Bartfch does 
 not feem to have feen this rare print, as his defcription is erroneous. The 
 monogram has the B. inftead of the P. 
 
 XL. Lent by Mr. Fi/fier, 
 
 324. The Sun (Apollo), oneofthefetof the Planets, woodcut (Pafs.181). 
 
 XLI. Early Works. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 325. Adam, 2nd ftate (B. i). 326. Adam, 2nd ftate (B. 3). 327. 
 Three men, etching (B. 206). 328. Lot (B. 9). 329. Judgment of Paris 
 (B, 88). 330, Mofes and Aaron (B. 8). 331. Dancers (B. 194). 332, 
 Soldier and Girl (B. 202). 't^'T^'T,. The Shepherd (B. 216). 
 
 XLI I. Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 334. The Village Feftival (B. 168), woodcut, on four ftieets of paper, 
 figned H. S. B., and dated 1535, but without the publiftier's name; de- 
 fcribed by Bartfch as in the 2nd ftate. 
 
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 XLIII. Lent by Mr. W. B. Scott. 
 22S' Judith (B. II). 
 
 Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 'T)T)6. Copy of the fame by Wierix. 
 
 XLIV. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 337-348. The Labours of Hercules (B. 96-107) all in ift ftates except 
 B. 103 and B. 104. 
 
 XLV. Lent by Mr. Alfred Morrifon. 
 349-352. Four ornaments (B. 224-227). 
 
 XLV I. Lent by Mr. Morrifon. 
 '}c^2f The Village Feftival, copy by De Bry of No. 334. 
 
 BOOKS CONTAINING WOODCUTS BY H. S. BEHAM. 
 
 'Lent by Mr. Fifher. 
 
 The Apocalypfe, Frankfort, 1539, containing 26 cuts, and the monogram 
 of H. S. B. on the title. 
 
 Lent by Mr. Mitchell. 
 
 The Hiftory of Curiolo and Lucretia, Frankfort, date between 1 560 and 
 1580, containing many cuts in the manner of Beham. 
 
 Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 I. Imagines ElegantifTime, W^ittemberg, 1558, containing one cut (unde- 
 fcribed) by Beham. 2. Cicero de Senedlute, Cologne, 1537, with a title 
 border (undefcribed) by Beham. 3. Luther's Betbuchlein, 1549, with title 
 and two cuts (undefcribed) by Beham. 4. Melanchthon on the Gofpels, 
 Wittemberg, 1561, containing one cut (undefcribed) by Beham. 5. Bible 
 Cuts, undefcribed edition, Frankfort, 1537. 
 
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 XLVII. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 354, 355. Two friezes of battles (B. 17, 16), 
 
 XLVIII. Lent by Mr. Fijher. 
 
 356. One frieze of a battle (B. 18). 
 
 XLIX. Lent by Mr. Fi/her. 
 
 357. Ornament (B. 45). 358. Judgment of Paris (B. 26). 359. 
 Cleopatra (B. 12). 360. Ornament (B. 59), 361. Lucrece (B. 14). 
 
 L. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 362. Cimon and Pero (B. 11). 'TfG^. Chryfoftom (B. 43). 364. 
 Apollo and Daphne, ift ftate (B. 25). 
 
 Lent by Mr. Fi/her. 
 365. Apollo and Daphne, 2nd ftate (B. 25), 
 
 LI. Lent by Mr. Morrijon. 
 -})(>(). Portrait of Charles V. (B. 60). 
 
 LII. Lent by Mr. Morrijon. 
 
 367. Portrait of Michael Roting (undefcribed). 
 
 LII I. Lent by Mr. Morrijon. 
 
 368. Portrait of Ferdinand I., firft ftate (B. 61). 
 
 LIV. Lent by Mr. Loftie. 
 
 369. Two foldiers, one on horfeback, 1521, (undefcribed). 370. Man 
 feated on the ftump of a tree (B, 45). 
 
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