At Mechlin I lodged with Master Heinrich, the painter, at the sign of the Golden Head.[[61]] And the painters and sculptors bade me as guest at my inn and did me great honour in their gathering. I went also to Poppenreuter[[62]] the gunmaker's house, and found wonderful things there. And I went to Lady Margaret's and showed her my Emperor,[[63]] and would have presented it to her, but she so disliked it that I took it away with me.
And on Friday Lady Margaret showed me all her beautiful things. Amongst them I saw about forty small oil pictures, the like of which for precision and excellence I have never beheld. There also I saw more good works by Jan (de Mabuse), and Jacob Walch.[[64]] I asked my Lady for Jacob's little book, but she said she had already promised it to her painter.[[65]] Then I saw many other costly things and a precious library.[[66]]
ANTWERP, June 8--July 3, 1521.
Master Lukas, who engraves in copper, asked me as his guest. He is a little man, born at Leyden in Holland; he was at Antwerp.
I have drawn with the metal-point the portrait of Master Lukas van Leyden.[[67]]
The man with the three rings has overreached me by half. I did not understand the matter. I bought a red cap for my god-child[[68]]for eighteen st. Lost twelve st. at play. Drank two st.
Cornelius Grapheus, the Secretary, gave me Luther's "Babylonian Captivity,"[[69]] in return for which I gave him my three Large Books.
[Illustration: LUCAS VAN DER LEYDEN Drawing in charcoal formerly in the collection at Warwick Castle.]
I reckoned up with Jobst and found myself thirty-one fl. in his debt, which I paid him; therein were charged and deducted the two portrait heads which I painted in oils, for which he gave five pounds of borax Netherlands weight. In all my doings, spendings, sales, and other dealings, in all my connections with high and low, I have suffered loss in the Netherlands; and Lady Margaret in particular gave me nothing for what I made and presented to her. And this settlement with Jobst was made on St. Peter and Paul's day.