GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



wuficsfl imlrutuciits. Jilted 1528, 1529. A ftt <,f the Auguftin Hirfchfogcl waa born at Nuremberg A. D, 



S"ven Pkmou nerlonitiea. Another of the vSeven Car- 1 506, and died in the fame city in 1560. He was proba- 



Oiiial Virtues. An cmbleiiiatiial piece en medaUlon, in hly educated a painter, but produced feveral etchings, of 



which a flaming- lieart, i e. an heart of ardent virtue, is which the landfcapea poffefs conliderable merit, being etched 



beaten on an anvil, by four a'legorical females : whicli with fome tafte and the touch of a mafter, but when he 



- • ■ - "rkheimcr's emblems, introduced the liuman figure it is very incorrectly drawn. 



iitolerauce, marked Tiie fingidar monogram of Hirfchfogel, funnounted by a 



female figure with wings, little crofs, will be found in our lirll plate of thofe of the Ger 



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figures, as we are informed in Bilibald Pirkt 

 are Experience, Envy, Tribukition, and In 

 15 I. B. 29. " Hiftory," a female fig 

 writing. A pair of " Peafants marketmg with People of 

 fuperior Condition." A fet of twenty, of Divinities (land- 

 ing in Niches, copied from Curaliccs, who copied them from 

 RofTo 



The above are mnrked with the initials of the artilt : the 

 following are with his monogram. A pair, very fmall, of 

 «' Eve with Two Apples, and Adam holding the Branch of a 

 Tree.' ' " Lot and liis Daughters," a fmall circle. " David 

 with the Head of Goliah ;'' and " Judith with that of Holo- 

 ferncs 5" both fmall. " The Millennium, or Archangel 

 Michael, chaining the DeviL" "The Holy Family." 

 «■ The Slaughter of the Innocents," a very rare print 



man fchool, and his principal productions are as follow : 



Part of " Raphael's {laughter of tlie Innocents," from a 

 fl<etch by that mailer, whicli differs from the print by Marc 

 Antonio, dated 1545. A fet of four, and another fet of 

 iix landfcapes, from his own compolitions of caftle and 

 mountain fcenery, in 4to., dated 1546. A folio landfcape, 

 in which is introduced an ill-drawn female intended for 

 Cleopatra, dated 1547. An ornamented vafe in 410. dated 

 the fame year, and two fmall views of fea-ports, with (hip- 

 ping, &c, dated 1549. 



Henry, whom Strutt has miftakenly confounded with 

 Hans or John Lautcnfack, was alfo of Nuremberg, or, ac- 



after Raphael, but perhaps copied from the engraving by cording to fome authors, was of Doppelmayr, and born iii^ 

 Marc Antonio. " The Defcent from the Crofs." " St. the fame year with the preceding artift. He was the fon of 

 John afleep with the Lamb," dated 1526. " St. George a painter, and learned the principles of delign in his father's 

 imd the Dragon." " Mercury travelling in a Defart," a houfe, which he probably continued to inhabit, for we 

 fmall circle. " A Soldier defending himfelf agaiull Death, fi„d that he died in his native city in the year 1590. 

 who has overthrown him." "A Woman beating the The elder Lautenfack employed much of his time in en- 

 Devil with a DiftafF." " A Woman advancing with Sur- graving on the precious metals for the fidcboards and per- 

 crife towards a Man who is feated near a Pedellal, on which fonal ornaments of the opulent and the great, but in the 

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is a Child," after Raphael, and engraved under the direftion 

 of Marc Antonio. " A Male and Female Pcafant Dancing." 

 " The Blind Child." A vignette, with Cupids mounted 

 en dolphins. 



Strutt begs leave to add, a figure of " Saturn ftanding in 

 a Niche devouring One of his Children," a fmall upright, 

 which differs in the llyle of engraving from the fore- 

 going, being more bold, fpirited, and correft. The real 

 meaning of this allegory mull be, that Time is fwallowed 

 X'p hy Eternity. On a tablet which is uitroduced is 

 "Jacobus Binck Colonienl'is, fecit 1530. 



Another of " the little mailers" of Germany was Hans 

 cr John Brofamer, born at Fulda, in the circle of the Up- 

 per Rhine, in the year 1506. His m.anner of engranng 

 often bears refemblance to that of Aldegrever, but the 

 fchool in which he ftudied is not known ; lometimes, how- 

 ever, he differs from that dillinguilhed mallsr by interworking 

 the lines of his draperies and backgrounds with ilippling. 

 His drawing of the naked is however very deficient, and in 

 manual execution he by no means equalled the Behams. He 

 died at the age of iifty-four, and his cypher, compofed of 

 the letters H and B, will be found in our liril plate of thoie 

 •f the German fchool. 



His principal engravings are, the portraits of Martin 

 Luther, and the abbot of Fulda, dated in 1 541. 



And in hillory, " Samfon and Dalilah ;" " David and 

 liathlheba;" and " Solomon's Idolatry;" dated 1543, all 

 I'mall uprights. " Xantippe and Socrates ;'' " Laocoon and 

 his fons;" dated 1538; "The Rape of Helen;" of the 

 frieze form, dated 1540 ; " Marcus Curtius leaping into the 

 G-ulf;" a fmall circular plate ; " Tiie Judgment of Paris;" 

 « A Crucifixion, with Angels, the Virgin Mary, and St. 

 John;" "The grand procelhon of Cliriftian Heroes;'' a 

 rare print, engraved on wood, and fometimes attributed to 

 Burgmair ; and " Biblia Vcteris Tellamenti ai-tificiofis pic- 

 turis etfigiata," printed at Frankfort in the year 1552, and 

 conlilling of a fet of engravings on wood, chiefly, but not 

 entirely, copied from thofe of Holbein, which were pub- 

 liflied at Leyden in 1547 ; but by no means equal to the 

 •rijioalsj eijkier iu fpirit, acatoeis, or truth. 



year 1567 he publilhed at Franckfort on the Mayne the 

 " Geometrical proportions and pijrfpeftive of the Man and 

 Horfe ;" in fmall foho ; " The Martyrdom of St. Cathe- 

 rine ;■' two ornamental plates of boys, &c. ; " The decolla- 

 tion of St. John the Bnptift ;'' " Chrifl expiring on the 

 Crofs," and a boy ftanding on a globe with a bow in his 

 hand, and below whom is a deluge, with many fmall figures, 

 are alfo engraved by Henry Lautenfack, whofe marks will 

 be found in our fecond plate of German monograms. 



Of the fame jdace and family with the preceding, was 

 Hans Sebald Lautenfack, who was born in the year 1508, 

 but of the principal events of whofe hfe, and the time of 

 whofe death, we are ignorant. 



His portraits are held in efleem among connoifTeurs for 

 their truth of refemblance ; and his landfcapes, which an; 

 chiefly etchings, for their wild, or beautiful, or grand 

 effetts ; but the figures which he has introduced are gene- • 

 rally difproportionate. 



His landfcapes are of an hiilorical charafter, and are com- 

 monly denominated after the figures they contain. Of thefe 

 the following will probably be found moft worthy of 

 the colledlor's attention : " The little David combating • 

 the Great Goliah,' dated 1551. " The Blind Man of 

 Jericho, reftored by our Saviour,'' and another miracle of 

 " The Devil call out from the Canaanite," both dated 1559. 

 " Balaam and his Afs,'' in a very mountainous landfcape, and 

 a very rich fcene of " The Labours of the Vintage," are 

 alfo dated in 1559, all of the folio lize. An upright land- 

 fcape with a large farm, dated 1551. A pair of intereiling 

 and extenfive fccnes in 410. dated 1553 and 1555. A grand 

 tournament, of large folio dimenfions, entitled " Equellrls 

 pedeflrifque pugnueicon," 1560; and another grand joufl, 

 entitled " Secundum CircenCum Ludorum, equeflre cer- 

 tamen continens,'' 1560, both of which are now become 

 very rare. A pair of views of the imperial city of Nurem- 

 berg, in large foLo, each engraved on three plates, and dated 

 1552 and 1555. 



The principal portraits by Hans Sebald, are thofe of hi» 

 father Paul Lautenfack, painter of Nuremberg, in folio. 

 Hiinfelf, in fmall folio, dated ijjz. Hierouimus Seurflab. 



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