THE LATEST EDITIONS OF MRS. JAMESON’S WORKS ON SACRED AND LEGENDARY
CHRISTIAN ART.
The Fifth Edition, in 2 vols. square crown 8vo. with 19 Etchings on
Copper and 187 Woodcuts, price 31_s._ 6_d._
LEGENDS of the SAINTS and MARTYRS as represented in the Fine Arts,
forming the FIRST SERIES of ‘Sacred and Legendary Art.’ By Mrs. JAMESON.
II. LEGENDS of the MONASTIC ORDERS. Third Edition, with 11 Etchings and
88 Woodcuts. 1 vol. 21_s._
III. LEGENDS of the MADONNA. Third Edition, with 27 Etchings and 165
Woodcuts. 1 vol. 21_s._
IV. HISTORY of OUR LORD as exemplified in Works of Art. By Mrs. JAMESON
and Lady EASTLAKE. Second Edition, with 31 Etchings and 281 Woodcuts. 2
vols. 42_s._
⁂ Of these 312 Illustrations, all prepared specially for the ‘History
of Our Lord,’ nearly one-third of the whole number have now been
engraved for the first time.
‘We have in these volumes, penned in a truth-seeking spirit and
illustrated with a copious generosity which at once elucidates and
adorns each section of the subject, contributions to the literature of
CHRISTIAN ART, for which every artist and every student of theology
will confess debt of private gratitude. To thoughtful inquirers,
richest mines are here opened for meditation. To minds prepared for
deeper draughts to quench the thirst for knowledge, wells are dug and
fountains are made to flow even in the desert tracks of time where
pilgrim’s foot seldom attempts to tread. We think that Lady EASTLAKE
has done special service in bringing into popular view recondite
stores which have hitherto been sealed for public use. She has, by
appeal to the early heads of Christ in the Catacombs, by reference to
Christian sarcophagi of the fourth century, to ivories as old as the
sixth century, and Greek MSS. and Byzantine miniatures of the ninth
century, enabled the art-student to tract the history of types and
antetypes, and to analyse the rudimentary germs which, from age to
age accumulating strength and growing in comeliness, at length issued
forth in perfected pictorial form. _It is to this, the infancy of art,
that at the present moment peculiar interest attaches._’
BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE.
[Illustration: _The Assumption of the Magdalena_.]