GERMAN SCHOOL Ol- ENGRAVING. 



is verv rare anJ Ind. A whimficJ compofition, of "Jefus 

 Chriainthe Clouds," furroumW by angels, and infpinng 

 the cleclorof Saxony, a half length oi whom appears below ; 

 afmall print, almoil fquare. 



In chiarofcuro, that is, on two blocks of wood, the one 

 for th» outline and darker flmdows, and the otlicr for the 

 demitints and lights, Cranach has engraven " St^Chnftopher 

 carryincr the Infant Chriil over an Arm of the Sea. a toho 

 print, d'atcd 1507. '^St. Georjre and the Dragon," a large 

 Ato " St John preaching in the Deiart," ui loho, dated 

 T576. And, " A Naked Venus'' (of ludicrous beauty) ac- 

 companied by Cupid, who is trying his bow, in folio 



The Ictter-prcfs engravings of Cranach, commonly iup- 

 pofed to have been performed on wood, are as follow : Bull 

 of Jean Frederic, eleClor of Saxony ; ditto of Martin 

 Luther in the coftume of a monk of th< order of St. Augul- 

 tln, dated 1520; both in 4to. ^, . ^ , „, .,. ., 



"Whole leno-th portraits of Martin Luther ; Phi.ip Me- 

 landhon ; the°emperor Charles V. ; the emperor Ferdinand ; 

 Jean Fredric, eleftor of SaxBiiy ; and Jean Guillaume, duke 

 of Saxony, all of the folio lize. 



A half length of the eleftor of Saxony, holding a book 

 open before a crucifix, a rare print, marked with the little 

 dragon, dated in 1552, and infcribed with a Latin fentence^ 

 Of his hiftorical works, the following are held m molt 

 requeft among collcftors. " Adam and Eve in Paradife, or 

 the Sin of our Firft Parents," dated 1509. " The Annun- 

 ciation." " St. John preaching in the Defart," which has 

 been called a grand compofition, and is dated 15 16, and 

 the "Decollation of St. John :" all of the folio fize. 



A fet of twelve in fmall foho from the life and paffion of 

 Jefus Chriil, infcribed on the title page " Pafilo D N. Jefu 

 Chrilli venuiliflimis imaginibus," &c. and dated 15C9 : this 

 fet is highly efteemed among connoifleurs. Another fet of 

 twelve, of the Martyrdoms of the ApolUes,in 4to. and which 

 are held in ilill more requeft for rich compofition and the ex- 

 preffion of the heads, and are on the whole fuperior to the 

 preceding : they are dated in the year 1 549. 



It is curious to refle.^ with how frequent infenfibility, the 

 Gotho-gennan artills of the age of Cranach fclefted fubjefts 

 that called for the introduaion of beauty even of the highcft 

 kind,anddre!l out their virgin Maries and Venufes in all theftiff 

 jiieagrenefs of their age and country. " Paris vifited by the 

 three Goddeffes on iwunt Ida," is a rare piece in large foho, 

 dated 1508. " Curtius leaping into the fiery Gulph" is alfo 

 in foho, and dated 1508. Three plates of tournaments, of 

 ■which two are called the great, and the other the little tour- 

 nament, dated 1 5«9 ; and a pair of park fcenes with ftags 

 in the rutting time, and which are very rare, conclude our 

 lift of the engravings of Lucas Cranach. 



Hans or John Burgkmair painter, and engraver on wood, 

 was born at Augfburg in the year 1474. He iludied under 

 Albert Durer, and fome of his engravings are dated fo early 

 as 1510, but the time and place of his death are unknown. 

 He engraved chiefly, if not entirely on wood, and his prints 

 pofTefs much of the fire and fpiritwhich diilinguilh thofe of his 

 mailer. ProfelTor Chriil attributes to him fome fmall fpirited 

 wooden cuts which were made for the ancient edition of theworks 

 of Geyler de Keiferberg, which bear the above date ( of 1 5 1 o ) , 

 and are marked T. B. Many of the works of this artift bear 

 his name at length, the reft are marked with one or other of 

 the two cyphers which will be found in our plate of the 

 monograms, &c. of the German fchool. 



The following are the engravings by Burgkmair, which 

 are moft fought after by colleAors : " The Emperor Maxi- 

 jnilian I. 00 Horfcback ;" of which dcfign tliere h a dupli- 



cate engraving in clare obfcure, which bears the name of 

 Joft de Negker, but which is partly the work of Burgkmair. 

 It is a very rare print, dated in the year 1508, both of the 

 folio fi7.c. "St. George on Horfcback," alfo bears the 

 name of Negkcr, and is of th; folio fize, and in clare obfcure. 

 "Joleph and the wife of Potiphar," is of a fquare f(jrni, 

 and in 4^0. " St. Thomas," " St. Bartholomew," and " St. 

 Seballian," d.ited 1515, are all in folio. "A young 

 Woman mourning the lols of a Hero that Death has over- 

 come," is a raie print in folio ; by Burgkmair and 

 Negker. 



The remainder of the letter prefs cuts of this artift are, 

 a fet of two hundred and thirty-feven for a folio work, of 

 which the manufcript by Marc Treitz Sauerwein is in the 

 Imperial library at Vienna : its title is " Der weifs Konig" 

 (the wife king), and it confills of the diftinguiihed aCls of 

 the emperor Maximilian. 



" The triumphal Entry of Maximilian," confifting of one 

 hundred and thirty-five blocks or plates, have remained for 

 a long period of time unknown at the caftle of Ambras, but 

 v.ithin thefe few years have been removed to the Imperial 

 library at Vienna, fmce wliich, impreflion!-. have been taken, 

 and feveral fets have been brought to England. Many of 

 thefe engravings are the work of Burgkmair, and are 

 marked at the back with his name or initials, tliough the 

 whole fcnerally pafles under the name of Albert Durer, and 

 were probably executed under his dlreftion. Another work, 

 executed by thefe artills conjointly with Hans Schaufflein, ij 

 called the Tewrdanck ; but the greater number of the prints 

 contained in it ai'e from the graver of Burgkmair. 



Johanlen, or Hans Baldung, furnamed Grien or Grun, 

 painted and engraved for the letter prefs and in clare obfcure. 

 He was a native of Gemund in Suabia, and was born in the 

 year 1476. He flourifned as an engraver through the 

 earlier part of the fixteenth century, and tlie lateft of hij 

 works is dated in the year 1534, but the time of his death is 

 uncertain. 



His engravings are executed in a bold Ityle, and with con- 

 fiderable power over the inilruments of his art. Strutt fays 

 of him, that " his figures are rather exprefave tlian corrcft ; 

 the naked parts of them are poorly drawn ; and the ex- 

 tremities, though free and fpirited, are often heavy, and not 

 well marked :" yet confidering tlie period and place at 

 which Baldung lived, be may be regarded as a meritorious 

 artift. His engravings are fonvtimes marked with his name 

 at length, and at othi-rs with the cj-phers which we have 

 given in our plate of German monograms. His principal 

 works are, " Adam and Eve in Paradife." " The Fall of 

 Adam :" in the latter, a tablet is fufpended from a tree, bear- 

 ing the motto " Lapfus humaiii generis," and the date 15 11. 

 Both are of the folio fize, and the Fall of Adam is a per- 

 formance of merit in clare obfcure. 



A fet of thirteen figures in fmall folio of the Saviour and 

 twelve apoftles, dated in 1 5 14, and marked with the artift's 

 cypher. " The Crucifixion," with the holy women and St. 

 John at the foot of the Crofs, in dare obfcure. A fet of 

 four fmall uprights reprefenting the Efletls of Love, or 

 Influence of Women, exemplified in the ftories of Samfon 

 and Dalilah, Solomon's Idolatry, David and Bathflieba, and 

 Xantippe and Socrates, (called by fome Ariilotle and- 

 Phryne,) dated 1515. "A drunken Bacchus lying at the 

 mouthof aCafl<," in 4to. " The Sorcerefs," who is mounted 

 on a he -goat, holding a cauldron. A pair, cut in a mafterly 

 ftyle, of wildhorfcs in a foreft, with the name of Baldung at- 

 length, and the date 1534. Another pair of fmall land- 

 fcapes, which are faid to be etched on plates of iron, and are 

 very rare. 



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