GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



Georgius Roggenbacli, and two other half-lengths, all in and four beautiful candelabra, with an arabefque bahj 

 folio. which is cfteemcd the beft of his engnavings. 



The brothers David, Jerome, and Lambert Hopfer ap- Strutt lias added to thefe another Hopfer, for whom he 



pear to have been the fons of a goldfmith, and fiourilhed at claims equal merit with thr bell. The initial letter of his 



Nuremberg within the firll fifty years of the fixtecnth cen- chriitian name was an N. He worked with the graver, but 



tury. They produced a great m?i>yfpiritcd etchings, which imparted to his lines fomewhat of the roughnefs of etching, 



Hollar afterwards made the foundation of his llyle. David and drew more correctly than David or any other of the 



was the moil indullrioiis of the three, but defigned in the family. To this artill he afcribes " The Call of Jeremiah," a 



vicious tafte of his age and country : yet his freedom of fmall upriglit, dated 1525. " A female Saint, holding a Palm 



handling is very plealuig, and difplays itfelf to advantage in Branch, and feveral Figures fleeping witli the Deity°appcar- 



buiulings and ornaments. He ufually marked his plates with ing above," which, he fays, is " a fine fpirited etching." 



the initials of his name, between which he introduced what David Funck, a printfeller of Nuremberg, towards the 



the Abbe MaroUes appears to have millaken for a candle- beginning of the laft century, collected and publilbed all the 



ftick, for he emphatically calls the Hopfers " le Maitres plates of thefe artilU, amounting to two hundred and thirty, 



du Chandelier,'' but what is really intended for a hop-plant, under the title of " Opera Hopferiaua :'' fome of whicU 



in sllufion to their name, which in the German language fig- were found to be executed on plates of iron or tin. 



nifies hop-plant. Thefe letters, with the plant, fometimes Virgile Solis engraved both on copper and on wood, 



appear on a tablet, for which fee our plate of German mo- chiefly from his own deligns ; was born at Nurembero- in the 



nograms. year 1514, and died in the fame city in 1570. Under what 



The principal works of David, are the portraits of Nero mafter he itudied does not appear. His early works refem- 



and Galba, of the 4to fi/.e, as medallions. Carolus Rex ble thofe of Beham, but when he came to engrave after 



Catholicus, the fame. M:irtin Luther, dated 1523, and Raphael, and other Itahan mailers, he adopted a (lyle more 



Claude Sturzenbecher, a rare print in folio. open and fpirited. His prints on wood bear great refem- 



Of his hillorical engravings, we ihall mention, " David blance to thofe of Joil Ammon, both in deli^n and ex- 



beheadincr Goliah,'' in 410. and " David Playing on the ecution. 



Harp before Saul," in folio, dated 153 1. " The Adulte- Virgile Solis was a man of ability. His compofitions 

 rous Woman;" " The Prefentation in the Temple;'' "The are often judicious, but his drawing of the naked is not. 

 Laft Judgment ;" and " A Grand Altar," with the figures equally correft. He is clalTed among the little mafters, and 

 of Jefus Chriil, the Virgin Mary, St. John the B:iplift, and tiled occafionally three cyphers, which will be found in our 

 others, all in folio. A fort of ridiculous " Morice Dance of fecond plate of the monograms of the German engravers. 

 Grotefque Figures." " The Monopolifer of Grain, e.Kecrat- Mr. Evelyn fays, that for " imitating the vile poftures of 

 ed by the PeopL-," infcribed, " die Sprich Salomo. Das XL Aretin, he had his eyes put out by the fentence of the ma- 

 Capitel." A fubjeft from the loth cha-jtcr of Solomon's giilrate." Strutt p'refumes, that if this llory be true, the 

 Proverbs, dated 1534. both in folio. " Tlie Three Great engravings of Solis muft have been copies from thofe which 

 Jews, Jolh'i.i, Divid, and Judas Maccabeus, on horfe- Marc Antonio did after the defign of Julio Romano, (and 

 back." " The Three Chriiliau Heroes, Cliarlemagne, king which had nearly coll him his life,) to which the poet Aretin 

 Arthur, and G >dfrey of Bj illoigne," companion to theabove, did but fupply verfes. 



both in 4to. and after H-ms Burgmair. _ " A Grand Vil- The engravings of Solis amount to upwards of eight hun- 

 lage," of fqu.ire form and folio dimenfions. " Two Fe- dred, of which it may fufiice to fpecify the followintr : "The 

 males Surveying themfelves in a Mirror, behind whom are Marriage of Cupid and Pfyche ;" " Tlie Allemblv of the 

 Death and tie D.vil." Two very grotefque figures, Gods ;" and " Mount PariiafTun," all a.fter Raphael! "The 

 infcribed " Bolikana, Markelfas," in folio. " The Cruci- Bith of the Anabaptifts,'' a fmall plate, after Alden-rever. A 

 fixion betwi.'it the two Thieves." Another " Crucifixion," fet of four plates of fragments of ancient architecTiure. A 

 in which St. John and the Virgin Mary are introduced, tlie fet of fix heads of Roman emperors, fmall. A pair of fmall 

 |a;'.T pierced by a fword, in allufion to her exceffive grief; fri<-ze3, in which are numerous parroquets. A fet of por- 

 anu . fmall copy of a celebrated work of Andrea Manteg- traits of the kings of France, from Pharamond to Henry HI. 

 na, of '« A Co nbat of M.irine Monilers." The above are on copper, with fome few etchings, whiclr 



Jerome Hopfer etched much in the fame ftyle with his are inferior to the refl of his works, 

 brother, but was fomewhat his inferior in merit. He made His principal engravings on wood, are a fet of one lum- 

 feveral copies from celebrated v/orks of Albert Durer, and dred and feventy froin Ovid's Metamorphofes, fmall, and 

 fometimes engraved from his own compofitions, marking his dated 1563. A fet for the emblems of Nicolas Reufner, 

 prints as did his brother. dated 1581. And, another fet for thofe of Andrea Ancia- 



His be.t works after Durer are, " St. Hubert," " St. Je- tus, both of which books were printed at Frankfort in the 

 ro- '. ,"and"TlieGrandC innon.'' " HerculesCombatingthe year 1581. 



Hyd.'a," is from Andrea Mmtegna : and the beil from his Melchior Lorch, or Lorich, was born at Flenfburg, in the 

 owii I'eUgns are " Lucina holding a Moon in her right Hand, dutchy of Slefwic, in the year 1527, and died at Rome in 

 and a Fla.nbeau in her left." " Minerva holding a fmall Figure 1586. He was dillingnilhed both as an artill and an anti- 

 ofViftory." A rare print of "The Englilb and French drawn quary : fome time about the middle period of his life, he 

 Tip in battle array, previous to the Fight at Agincourt."' And made a voyage to Conllantinople, where he painted and en- 

 a battle, after Julio Romano. graved the portraits of the grand feignior and his favourite. 



Of lliU lefs merit than his brethren, was Lambert Hop- which are now become very rare, and wliere he formed that 

 fer, who copied in etching a great number of the wood cuts coUedlion of Turkifh dreffes, which were afterwards engra- 

 of Durer, but his works difplay little talle and lefs cor- ven on wood, and pubhihed in the year 1576, in a folio vo- 

 leftnefs. lume. His engravings are decidedly thofe of a man of ta- 



Among them a-e a fet of fifteen of " The Life and Paflion lent: he drew with confiderable fpirit, and a tolerable de- 

 of Chri.fl." " The Converlion of St. Paul." " The Fall of gree of correftnefs. His \Vorks on wood are executed with 

 •ur Fijft Parents." Several plates of arabefque oi-naiiients> nuich freedom anJ boldoefs, while in tlv»fe on copper thef«- 



