GERMAN SCHOOL Ol' ENGRAVING. 



qualities are in fome degree loft, in the neatncfs to wliich lio 

 laboured his fiiiilliing. Strutt fpcaks of a crucified figure, 

 (which is defij^ned fo much in the ilyle of Michael Aiigeli), 

 that he fuppoies it to be engraven iifter fome work of that 

 great mafler'i as a very extraorJin:iry produClion. It is ex- 

 ecuted entirely with the graver, and the left leg and arms are 

 much fore-lliorteiied. He fays, " if this figure be uot quite 

 correft in all its parts, it is however well drawn upon the 

 whole, notwithilandiugthe diflloulty of the fore-fliorleniiigs, 

 and is finifhed in a Ilyle of ncatnefs equal to that oi Jerome 

 or Anthony Wierix, while it is fuperior to them in point of 

 tafti'.'' His monograms, which he foniCtimes furmounted 

 by the date of iiis work, will be found in our fecond plate 

 of thofe of the German fchool. 



The works of Lorich, which aix> held in moH requeft 

 among connoifieurs, are : the portrait of Martin Lu- 

 ther, dated 15+8. That of Albert Durer, with four 

 Latin verfes, dated 1550, a very rare print, done in imitation 

 of a Cameo, and thofe which we have mentioned above of the 

 grand fcignior and his favourite fultaua, very neatly executed 

 on copper, and very fcarce. Ariftotle, the Stagyrite, dated 

 1561. " St. Jerome in the Defart,'' dated 1546; and a 

 fraall upright of a female head, beautifully executed, are alfo 

 on copper. 



His bell engravings on wood, are a fet mentioned above, 

 of the colluine of Turkey, in fmall folio, dated from 1570 

 to 1581. " The Tlburtine Sybil," dated 157 1, executed 

 in his bell ftyle. " A Woman preffing her Breall, with nume- 

 rous Animals below," and infcribed " Ops Saturni conjux 

 materque Deonmi,'' a very fpirited engraving in folio, dated 

 1565. And " The Deluge,'' a large foho, engraven on 

 two blocks, the imprelTioiis from which are afterward pailed 

 together. 



Theodore de Bry, or de Erie, the elder, was born at Liege 

 ia the year 1528, and died at Frankfort on the Miiine in 

 I 598 ; at which latter place he chiefly refided, but to whom 

 he owed his early initiation to art is not known. He appears 

 to have formed his tafte by copying the works ot Sebald 

 Beham. He worked almoft entirely with the graver, and 

 acquired a neat and free ftyle, which was well adapted to fmall 

 fubjefts, in whicli numerous figures were required to be in- 

 troduced, fucii as ftate, and funeral, proceiiions. He drew 

 correctly : liis heads in general are fpirited and expref- 

 five, and his other extremities well marked, and his back 

 grounds, though frequently fliglxt, are touclied with a maf- 

 terly hand. 



About twenty years before his death he vifited England, 

 and engraved at leaft tWX) large and laborious plates, ot 

 which we (hall prefently fpeak, in the city ot London. He 

 died, as his fons in the 3d part of Boiffard's colleftion of 

 portraits inform us, March 27, 1598. De Brie marked his 

 plates with the cypher T. B. F.,and at other times with that 

 of Rene Boivin ; and his principal engravings are thole which 

 follow: an etching of '• St. John in tlie Defart,' a rare 

 print. A pair of " The Fountain of Youth,'' and the 

 " Little Village Fair," copied from Sebald Beham. " A 

 Bacchanalian Procelfion," from Julio Romano. Three mixr 

 lures of the grotefque with the allegorical, of the circular 

 form. " The Golden Age," a fmall circle, after Abraham 

 Bloemart. A pair of portraits eu medalHon, of Scanderbeg 

 and Donice his wife. A. fet of nine figures of tlit miifes, in 

 folio. The plates for the four firft. volumes of Boiffard's 

 Roman Antiquities (of which the two laft volumes were 

 completed by the fons of our artift). The plates of the 

 manners and cuiloras of the Virginians, publiflied in " Ihe 

 brief true Report of the Now-foundland of Virginia, by 

 Thcuias Hamet, fcrvant to Sir Walter Kaleig);," ffoia 



drawings by J. White, printed at Frankfort by J. We- 

 chelius, A. D. 1590, which were afterwards copied by 

 Ficart, for his " Rehgious Ceremonies, &c." The plates ta 

 the Latin narrative of Spaniih cruelties in America, pubhlhed 



His largeft work appeared in the fame year, and is entitled 

 " Dcfcriptio Lidiae Orientalis et Occidcntalis,'' in nineteen 

 tracts, which are contained in five folio vohinies. 



De Brie is alfo the author of a work which may be 

 thought IHU more interelling to Britiih leehngs, beeaulc 

 coniifCled with Brililh hillory. It is tlie procelfion of the 

 knights of the garter in the 18th year of the reign of Eli- 

 zabeth, of which Strutt gives a very particulai- dcfcription : 

 " The nrocefPion is repreteiited as moving along a portico 

 quite opeu on the fide next the obfcrver, but fupportcd by 

 thirty-thn-e pillars of the Ionic order, on the fide from him. 

 Over each knight companion of the order, are bis armi 

 within tlie garter, and, in a compartment below, his name, 

 titles, fee. are written in French. The lall flail was vacant, 

 and ttiere is only a fancy portrait given, without name or 

 arms. There are fixty portraits in the procelfion, each of 

 them between four and five inches in heigiit ! Under the 

 arches of the portico is a delightful view of a hilly 

 country, (too hilly tor an Engliih profpett,) interfpcrfed 

 with calUes, churches, houles, rivers, woods, &c. and aa 

 exact view of Windior caftle as it appeared in that reign. 

 The roll is lixteen feet thrc-e inches long, and was engraved 

 on twelve plates." 



Hollar to his plate of the procefilon, copied in fmall from 

 this engraving, in Aihniole's order of the garter, fays, "the , 

 original was defigned by i!»Iarc Garrerd, who cuuld be then 

 only fifteen yeajs old." Wherefore Strutt concludes this to 

 be a millake, 'out perhaps Garrerd made a reduced copy from 

 this print, from whicli copy Hollar's plate was engraven, 

 which would reconcile tlie accounts ; for lord Orford dates 

 Garrerd's drawing in the year 1584, whereas De Brie's'plate' 

 was finilhed in the year 1578 ; and Strutt, reafoning from the 

 dedication being made in tlie name of Thomas Dawes, 

 Rouge-Croix, concludes that it was defigned by him. 



Strutt fays he never heard of any other impreliions from 

 this plate than the proof, which, after belonging to the 

 Norroy king at arms, came finally into the poffeihon of John 

 Femi, efq. of Eaft Durham in the county of Norfolk ; but 

 the engraving is mentioned by Hubcr, and preiuinpiivelj' 

 therefore, is not unknown on the continejit. 



To this detailed account of this very curious hiftorical 

 engraving, Strutt adds the order of procelfion, and the 

 names of the fixty portraits of the knights coin|ianions and 

 officers of ftate ; and the reader who willies to be informed, 

 on thefe poiiits, is therefore reierred to his biographical 

 diftionary. 



The other plate which our artift is known to liave engraved 

 in LumioM, is "The Funeral Procefiion ot lir Phihp Sydney," 

 on thirty-four plates, forming, when paftcd together, a very 

 long roll, but more frequently forming a book. In the 

 infcription beneath, it is faid to be "contrived and invented 

 by Ttomas Lant, gent, fervant of the Iionourable kmght, 

 and graven on copper by Derick, or Theodore de Brie, ia 

 the city of Loiidun IJ7K; ' and prefixed is- the fvortrait of 

 Mr. Lant, aged 32. 



Jean Tlieodore de Brie tlie young.er was the eldeft fon 

 of Theodore, of whom we have jutl concluded our account. 

 He was bor.n at Liege in the year 1561, and died at Frank, 

 fort on the Maine in 1623. 



The engj-avings of Jean Tlieodore are on the whole fu. 

 perior to thoftrof his father both in taile and prccillon, and 

 lie aiuilcd.his fathej ia the literary j;i;rts of thole works in 



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