Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

MATERIALS AND MEN 25 Fig. 5. Various tools depicted on the frontispiece of a series of prints depicting Scenes from the Childhood of Jesus by Hieronymus Wierix, 1553-1619 (Brussels, Royal Library of Belgium). Top left, under the musical instruments, hang a hatchet, pincers, mallet and calliper. Below, sawyers’ ripsaw and toolbox. On the workbench are a toothed dog (left), bench clamp (right), mortise gauge (centre). On the cross-beams below the bench are various planes. In the foreground: chisels (including a mortise chisel), measuring rod, frame-saw (for cross-cutting), splitting axe and template. On the right, above a second toolbox (model for carrying on the back?): adze, two hand saws (one single handled, one two-handled), an auger and a felling axe. Hanging above these are a brace drill, hammer, compass and square.