GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



•forjeA, and fometinies mafterly ; his heads are exprcfTive, 

 ^d his other extremities carefully determined. Tlic manual 

 part of Ills engraving on copper, executed with the graver 

 only, is cleaj' and delicate. The prints which he has cut 

 on wood are flight, but fpirlted and free, as wood engrav- 

 ing ought to be ; for wood engraving ought not to emulate 

 the del'cacies and difficulties of the art of engraving on copper. 



His two monograms will be found amojigiiioie of the firft 

 plate of the German fchool. Fromthofc which he engraved be- 

 tween the yusrs 15*9 and 1530, with the Nurenibert; cypher, 

 \ve~feleiS the following ; vix. the portraits of Ss'bald Behum 

 and his wife Anne, where his cypher appears encircled bv lau- 

 rel. Two fmall plates of " Adam and Eve in the tcrreftrial 

 Paradifo," datedi5i9. "St. Jerome with liLs Lion holding I he 

 cardinal's Hat.'' '• Tlu: Madonna fuckling the infantClnift.'* 

 " The Virgin of Ratiibon," where file is reprefented Hand- 

 ing ou a creicer.t, and furrounded by radiance, and "The 

 Dtath of Dido," all dated in 1520. " St. Anthony writing 

 in the Deiart," and " St. Sebald, (the patroH faint of Nu- 

 remberg,) fitting among trunks of Trees, and holding in his 

 right hand the Model of his Church," both dated I5;:i. "Two 

 Peafants marcliing and playing on the Flute and Biig-pipes, 

 and a male and female Peaiant Dancing," dated 1522. " A 

 Triton fupportinga Nereid," dated 1523. " Force, allegorized 

 by a Woman littingon aLion,'' dated 1524. "A youngMan 

 fitting under an Arbour embracing a young Woman," dated 

 1526 '■ The Death of Cleopatra,'' dated J529. An orna- 

 mented vafe with an infcription. " A combat between the 

 Greeks and Trojans,'' infcribed " Krichen und Droioner,'' 

 nnd another combat, infcribed " Achilles und Hector," 

 both fmall friezes. 



O thofe which S. Behatn engraved at Frankfort, between 

 the years 1531 and 1549, and which are marked with his 

 fccond cyptier, thi hjlluwing are held in moll ellcem. 



A vafe enriched with fculptured ornaments, at the bafe 

 of which are two fyrens, dated 1531. " Adam and Eve 

 tarefiingeach other.'' "Adam and Eve in Paradife," between 

 whom is Deathj with a ferpent wound round him, prelenting 

 the fatal apple j a high finiflied plate, dated 1543. "The 

 emperor T-:._hn arrelled at the head of his Army." " Melan- 

 choly and Patience,'' two female figures, the former copied 

 from the celebrated engraving of the fame fubjeft by Albert 

 Durer, d^ted 1539; the latter fitting on a cohmin, which 

 is infcribed " Paticntia,'' and dated 1540. Another pair, 

 of Good-fgrtune and Evil-fortune, the former fig'.u-e ftandii g 

 and holdmg a wheel, the latter arrelled in her courfe by an 

 tvd genius, who is prefenting her with a lobfler or craw-lidi. 

 An etching of y buffoon prefenting flowers to a young 

 woman. A fet pf the four evangelifts, dated 1 541. 

 Another fet of twelve of the labours of Hercules, dated 

 from 1542 foi548. "AnEnfign beatingaDrum,'' infcribed 

 " ImBaucren l<j-eig;" fmall, and dated 1525. "A Roman 

 Charity," very fiijely engraven, dated 1544. The arms of 

 Behara, as granted to the family by the emperor Maximi- 

 lian, a hexagonal print, infcribed " Sebalt Behani, von 

 Nurnberg, maler, jekt wohnhaftcr Burgher in Frank- 

 furt," dated 1544. Bull of Domitian in the manner of an 

 antique medal. A fet of fix, and a title-page of the months 

 reprefented by male and female peafants dancirig, the lall 

 dated 1 545. "The Judgment of Paris,' 'dated 1546. " Death 

 i-Azed from behind by a naked Female,'' a beaiuifully finifhed 

 plate, dated 1547, with the following words infcribed on a 

 none, " Omnemin homine venuflain mors abolit." " A Man 

 endeavouring to root up a Tree,'' dated 1549, and infcribed 

 " Imycllibik-, &e." and a virgin and child copied from 

 Bartholomew B<-ham, dated 1549. 



The letter-prefs cuts of S. Beham have not been thus careful- 

 !j urraagcd and feparatcd. We kleix from themtlie following. 

 3 



His own portrait in a bonnet and without a beard. A fet 

 of eight from the Paflion of our Lord, two of whicii are 

 marked witii his former, and lv\o with his latter cyplier. 

 An " Holy Family," in whicli St. Joieph is plucking fruit. 

 " Tie Virgin and L'iiild.'' "A Pemtent.'' " St. Jerome with 

 aBiblcandCrucifix.'' " Inuiiortality," reprefented bya female 

 crowned with liars, and trampling on a Ikeleton, dated 1548. 

 A public bath of Anabaptiils, of both feses and all ages, of 

 the cncular form. Another public bath, a large print on lour 

 leaves. " A village Fair" of the frie/c form, and " A March 

 of Soldiers," alio of the frici^e form, and large ; the four lall- 

 mentioned engravings are very rare ; a let of tluee hundred 

 and forty-eight, engraved for " Biblica; Hillorix Artifi- 

 ciofifiime depiclx," printed at Frankfurt in 1537. But it is 

 to be oblerved that there are two editions of tins bible, of 

 which the former is in Latin, and the latter, dated 1539, is 

 in tlte German language. 



Gregory Peine,, or George Peiitz, was alio a native of Nu- 

 remberg, born in the year 1500. He firll lludied in the 

 fchool of Albert Durer, and profited much by the inilruc- 

 tions of that dillinguiflied mailer, but it was in Italy, and 

 under Marc Antonio, that he finiihed his taile, formed kis 

 ftyleof engraving, and acquired that correClnefs of draw- 

 ing whicli we regard with fo much admiration in his bell 

 works. His plates are executed entirely with the graver, 

 which he handled with much fkill, uniting with great pre- 

 cilion a degree of freedom which was unexampled. He ap- 

 pears to have worked on I'onie of the bell plates that pafs un»' 

 dirthe naineof Marc Antonio. 



The tar greater number of the engravings of Peins are of 

 fmall dimenllons ; wherefore he is ufually clalled among 

 " the little mafters ;" but he has produced fome few large 

 prints ; one cfpecially of great merit, of "An Army pafling a 

 Ditcli, and fcaling the "\\''alls of a forti'.icd City," after Julit> 

 Romano ; which, as Strutt has faid, is " an admirable fpecimca 

 of the artifl's fuperior abilities.'' 



Peins died at the age of fifty-fix, but where, his biogra- 

 phers have not mentioned : his monogram will be found in 

 our plate of thofe of the German fchool ; and the moll 

 efleemed of his numerous works are thofe which follow : 

 Portraits of Gregory Peins and his wife on the fame plate,, 

 with the infcription " Imago Gregori Peins Imago L^uxore 

 Ciregori Peins.'' From this engraving it fhould appear, that 

 the name it bears was the true name of our artilt, and that 

 the name Georgius Pentz, which appears under his large- 

 plate after Julio Romano, is probably an error of the pub- 

 lifher Van Aelil. Portrait of Jean Frederic, eltClor of 

 Saxony, a rare print, dated 1 543. 



The befl of the hiilorical works of Peins are, a pair of 

 " Eflher before Ahafuerus," and " The Temptation oi' 

 Job ;" another fmall pair of " Judith in the Tent of Holo- 

 fernes, and Judith appearing afterwards with his Head ;' 

 another pair, finely executed, of " Solomon's Idolatry,'' 

 and " The Judgment of Solomon." 



Peins appears to have pofl"efred fome judgment, at leaft fome 

 humour, in pairing his prints ; the next companions which 

 we have to notice, are " Sufannah fohcited by the Two old 

 Men," and " Lot intoxicated by the Two young Women, 

 his Daughters." 



From the hiflory of the patriarch Jofeph, we find a fi t 

 conCfling of four plates ; another let from the hiflory of 

 Tobit ot feven, includ/'ng the title-page. A pair of " The 

 Good Samaritan, and the Convtrfion of St. Paul." A fet 

 of the Four Evangelifls after Aldegrever, wiiich bear the 

 cyphers of bolli artiils. Another fet of tlie Seven Works 

 ot Mercy, of the circular form, and with German infcrip- 

 tions. Another fet, very highly finiihed, confilljng of 

 twenty-five, from the Life of Chriil. '• 'Hcrodias receiving 



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