PETER VISCHER 
Lazarus Holzschuher formed a committee and 
took an active part in subscribing and collecting 
money for the purpose. A spirit of generous 
rivalry with those of the Saint Laurence quarter, 
whose church, thanks to the piety of Hans Imhof, 
had been adorned by the beautiful Pyx wrought by 
Adam Krafft, stimulated their zeal. They sub- 
scribed and collected with such success that in the 
same year (1507) the commission was given to 
Peter Vischer. Two thousand gulden was the 
proposed cost, and twenty gulden were allowed 
the Meister for every hundred-weight of completed 
work, “as in the case of the monuments in the 
Cathedral at Bamberg.” A payment of 100 gulden 
was made to him on June 5, 1507. His darling 
plan was, then, at last to be realized. Vischer 
threw himself into his work with an enthusiasm 
only equalled by his energy. For twelve years 
he with his five sons laboured, though their labour 
was often interrupted by want of funds. Private 
subscriptions failed to supply the cost even of the 
157 cwt. of metal used. At last, when, in 1510, 
Anton Tucher in moving words had told the 
citizens that they ought to subscribe the Soo 
gulden still needed “for the glory of God and His 
Holy Saint,” the money was forthcoming. The 
monument was completed and the final payment 
for it made to Vischer three years later. Else- 
where I have thus described it. ; 
“On the base of the shrine the Master inscribed 
in his favourite Gothic characters the following 
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