An effect of sunshine upon the counter discovered every coin that was scattered upon its surface.

On these the painter had bestowed such intense labour, that their very legends were distinguishable.
"It would be in vain to attempt conveying, by words, an idea adequate to this _chef d'oeuvre_, which must have been seen to have been duly admired.

In three months it was far advanced; during which time our artist employed his leisure hours in practising jigs and minuets on the violin, and writing the first chapter of Genesis on a watchpaper, which he adorned with a miniature of Adam and Eve, so exquisitely finished, that every ligament in their fig-leaves was visible.

This little _jeu d'esprit_ he presented to Madam Merian." Leyden's earliest painter was Lucas Jacobz, known as Lucas van Leyden, who was born in 1494.

He painted in oil, in distemper and on glass; he took his subjects from nature and from scripture; he engraved better than he painted; and he was the friend of Duerer.