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First visit to England Sir Thomas More; his home and portraits The Windsor drawings Bishop Fisher Archbishop Warham Bishop Stokesley Sir Henry Guildford and his portrait Nicholas Kratzer Sir Bryan Tuke Holbein's return to Basel Portrait-group of his wife and two eldest children; two versions Holbein's children, and families claiming descent from him Iconoclastic fury Ruined arts Death of Meyer zum Hasen Another Meyer commissions the last paintings for Basel Return to England Description of the Steelyard Portraits of its members George Gysze Basel Council summons Holbein home "The Ambassadors" at the National Gallery; accepted identification Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn Lost paintings for the Guildhall of the Steelyard; the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty The great Morett portrait; identifications Holbein's industry and fertility Designs for metal-work and other drawings Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

The Canonicus Kratzer sings, you know, a heavenly bass, as was observed by the gentleman yonder, with the head of Titus Andronicus, who modestly remarked also, that he himself was properly only a second-ratetenor; but, though he said it, who should not say it, was nevertheless member of several academies of music. Forthwith preparations are made for the first chorus in the opera of Titus.

God Almighty be gracious to him. Next we have letters from and to Niklas Kratzer, Astronomer to Henry VIII. He had been present when Duerer drew Erasmus' portrait at Antwerp. Duerer had also made a drawing of Kratzer, and later on Holbein was to paint his masterpiece in the Louvre from the Oxford professor.

To the honourable and venerable Herr Niklas Kratzer, servant to his Royal Majesty in England, my gracious Master and Friend. First my most willing service to you, dear Herr Niklas. I have received and read your letter with pleasure, and am glad to hear that things are going well with you. I have spoken for you to Herr Wilibald Pirkheimer about the instrument you wanted to have.

He did not paint his friend, the boisterous and learned Pirkheimer; and what would we not give for a painted portrait of Erasmus, or a portrait of Kratzer, the astronomer royal, to compare with the two masterpieces by Holbein in the Louvre?

The Bodleian has a treatise written by him in 1528 for Nicholas Kratzer to present to Henry VIII; and Wolsey's Lectionary at Christ Church, Oxford, is probably in Meghen's hand.

But the chief glory of this collection are the Holbein portraits on the L. wall, four of which are of supreme excellence; 2715, Erasmus; 2714, William Wareham, Archbishop of Canterbury; 2713, Nicholas Kratzer, Astrologer to Henry VIII.; and 2718, Anne of Cleves. 2719, Richard Southwell is a doubtful Holbein. Section E is filled with Flemish paintings.

Nicholas Kratzer, the Bavarian mathematician, also one of Wolsey's Readers at Oxford, taught them astronomy: to know the pole-star and the dog, and to contemplate the 'high wonders of that mighty and eternal workman', whom More could feel revealed himself also to some 'good old idolater watching and worshipping the man in the moon every frosty night'. Richard Hyrde, the friend of Gardiner and translator of Vives' Instruction of a Christian Woman, continued the work after the 'school' had been moved to Chelsea; and when Margaret, eldest and best-beloved scholar, was married.

An oriental cover is spread on the table, and upon it are a number of the scientific instruments common to astrology and to the uses of astronomers like Kratzer, in whose portrait at the Louvre they are also to be seen. On the lower shelf are mathematical and musical instruments and books. The two latter are opened to display their text conspicuously.

Hermann Kratzer, of Leipsic, communicates the following practical information on the clarification and purification of vinegar to the Neueste Erfindungen und Erfahrungen: If vinegar has an unpleasant odor, which is rarer now that the vinegar manufacture has reached such a state of perfection, it may be removed as follows: Well burned and finely pulverized wood charcoal is put into the bottles containing the vinegar, the proportions being 8 grammes of charcoal to a liter of vinegar, or one ounce to the gallon.