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Old Violins And Their Makers, 1883
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1ninety-five plates of the engraving were found at the College of the Jesuits, at Gratz, in Styria. The illustration which Vidal gives forms a portion of plate 18 of this set. The whole suite of 135 plates was originally engraved, from designs by Burgkmair, by at least seventeen different engravers, whose names are given in the Vienna edition, being found on the backs of the plates themselves. Burgkmair's monogram is also found on very many of them, and Albrecht Dürer's name was never connected with the work until a writer named De Murr stated that they were by him. This was a mere conjecture, founded, probably, on the circumstance that in a journal of Dürer's there is an entry of a sum of money received for "Le Triomphe"—which may have been another work by him—and on the same author's opinion that Burgkmair was a pupil of Dürer, of which there is no evidence other than a general resemblance in some instances between their styles. According to some authorities, Burgkmair occasionally used Dürer's mark (see Fig. 9), as did one or two others. Evidences of the kind alluded to are, of course, very valuable in compiling a history of the violin, and perhaps I may be permitted to add a mite to the many kindred contributions already made. It is drawn from a source not mentioned in any ancient or modern work on the violin with which I am acquainted. The testimony, such as it is, is in favour of Italy's claim, and the slight digression may not be uninteresting, as it gives to a particular kind of instrument an antiquity more remote by at least a century-and-a-quarter than that granted to it by the distinguished
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