GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



rnoJeratum diilce Amorum ;"' " The AfTembly of God« at 

 tlieMarriagcof CupidandPfyche,"after Raphael, andthcan- 

 tique bas relief of " The Aldobi-andini Marriage," after Pictro 

 Santo Bartoli, for the academy of Joachim Sandrai-t, all of 

 the fulio dinicnllons. 



Of Hollar, vho ftourithed about this time at Prague, we 

 have already fpokcn. See Origin and Progrefs of ExtiLisii 

 En^'tiviiig. 



That extraordinary artift, Adrian van Oflade, for an ac- 

 count of whofe merits as a painter, fee the article Ostaue, 

 performed about this time fome etchings, which are very 

 juftly admired for their freedom and fpirit. They are not 

 all executed in the fame flyle, tiiough the fame mind be 

 every where evident. Some are dark and coarfc, and were 

 printed jull as the aquafortis left them, while others are more 

 neatly executed, and appear to have been fubfequently 

 worked upon with the triangular point, as was the cuilom 

 of Rembrandt and Worlidge. The two marks with which 

 Oftade occafiflaally fubfcribed his etchings, will be found in 

 our third plate of the monograms of the German fchool. 



The whole of his etchings confift of at lead fifty-two 

 plates of various dimenfions, all from his own dcfigns, of 

 which the following are perhaps moft worthy of being fpe- 

 cified ; " Several Peafants at the Door of a Cottage,'' with 

 a fair in the back ground, a middling-fi/.ed upright. " A 

 Dutch Wake,'' the fame. " Several Peafants Fighting 

 with Knives,'' a fmall plate, lengthways, dated 1658. " The 

 Cottage Dinner,' the fame, dated 1653. All thefe are in 

 his bold ftyle of etching. Thofe which follow are fuch as 

 he finifhed with more care. " The Painter,'' with an infcrip- 

 tion beginning in this manner : " PiAor Apellce, pingas," 

 and the full impreffions of this plate are with the cap con- 

 fiderably above the eyes of the figure ; in the fecond im- 

 preffions, the cap nearly touches the eyes. " A Mounte- 

 bank,'' a fmall upright plate, arched at the top. " The 

 Speftacle Seller,"' a fmall upright plate. " A Man, 'Wo- 

 man, and Child, at the Door of a Cottage," a middling- 

 fized plate, lengthways, dated l6j2. Several peafants, half 

 figures, at a window, one of them is finging a ballad, and 

 another holds the candle, a fmall upright plate. " A Man 

 Leaning ever a Hatch, blowing a Horn,'' the fame. " A 

 Cottage Entertainment,'' with iigures dancing, a middling- 

 fized plate, lengthways. 



The biographers of lieutenant-colonel de Siegen, (an offi- 

 cer in the icrvice of the landgrave of HefTe,) have conteftcd 

 ^ith the friends of prince Rupert for the honour of the in- 

 vention of mezzotinto. The lieutenant-colonel was born in 

 the year 1620, and, according to the baron Pleinnekin, exe- 

 cuted in that manoer a portrait of the princeis Amelia Eli- 

 zabeth of Heft CafTel, in 1643. 



For an account of prince P.upert's prctenfions to the dif- 

 covery, fee the article Origin and progrefs of Engi.is)! Hn- 

 grav'mg. " An Holy Family," after Caracci, in folio, is 

 aifo mentioned (but without a date) as a mezzotinto pro- 

 duftion of Siegen. 



Jean Frangois Ermels, who poflTeffed confiderable talents 

 in the art of painting and enj;raving Isndfcapes ap.d cattle, 

 was bom in the environs of Cologne in the year 1 62 1 , and 

 died at Nuremberg in 1693. He lludied under J. Holzmann 

 and Jean Both, and the following plates, confifting chiefly of 

 laadfcape Icenery, adorned with ruined edifices and animals, 

 were etched by him with great fpirit and freedom. A pair of 

 upright landfcapcs, " A Rocky Scene, and a compofition of 

 Ancient Architecture," in 410. " A Landfcape," in which 

 the figures introduced are a faun and bacchante. Another, 

 with moBumeats of antiqiijty. And a pair of " Paftoral 



Scenes," with fhepherds, cattle, and ruined edifices, all of 

 the 4to fize. 



Matthew Kcefcll, or Kyfell, was born at Augfljurg ia 

 1621, and du-d there in the year 1682. He fuccefsfully mirv- 

 gled the work of the graver with tliat of the point, and his 

 bell prints, v>hich are named in the following lift, pofl'efs a 

 large (hare of merit. The portraits of Chriilopher Benden,. 

 in 4to. Carolus Sulzer. Adolphus Zobelius. Andreas 

 Winkler Johannes Michael Dilherrus, after Ulricus Mayr 

 (an highly finiibed head in an oitagon border). Leonardus 

 Weiffius, after Jos. Werner, all in folio. A fet of forty- 

 two after Ludovico Burnacini, entitled " II Pomo d'oro,'* 

 and confiiling of fcenic decorations, &c. dated 1668, are 

 folio etchings : and the only hillorical work from his hand, 

 with which we are acquainted, is " The Virgin and Child," 

 apparently from a compofition by himfelf. 



Melchior Kcefell, the brother of Matthew, was born at 

 Auglburg in the year 1622, and died in the fame city in 

 1683. Here he acquired the rudiments of his art, but per- 

 fected his iludics under Merian of Frankfort, from whence, 

 after refiding fome few years, he returned to Auglburg, 

 and began to engrave the " Iconographia," of Wilhelm 

 Baur, a folio work, which confifts of one hundred and 

 fortv-eight prints of various lizes, confilling partly of the 

 " Life and Miracles of Jefus Chriil,'' and partly of views o£ 

 the " Seaports and Gardens of Italy, " which work was pub- 

 lilhed at Auglburg, A. D. 1682. 



Strutt fays of this artill, that " there is fomcthing very- 

 agreeable in his manner of engraving, efpecially when he 

 confined himfelf to fubjecls where the figures are fmall, for 

 as he drew but incorrectly, his figures appear defective, as 

 they increale in lize.' Baur was fond ot ornamenting the 

 back-grounds of his compofitions with fuperb buildings, 

 which Keefell has executed with much fpirit; his rocks alfo, 

 and mountainous dillances, have great merit ; but his trees 

 want freedom, lightnefs, and characlorillic determination of 

 their foliage ; his chiarofcuro is alfo fpotty and fatiguiug to 

 the eve, if this be not rather the fault of Baur. 



Melchior engraved other plates btCde thofe for the Ico- 

 nographia of Baur, of which the principal are, " The Hif- 

 tory of Ulyffes,'' from Tjieodore van Talden ; fome antique 

 ftatues, executed entirely with the gra^ver ; and the portraits 

 cf Sebaflianus Kirchmajerus, public proteifor at Ratifbon, 

 after Benj. Block, in 410. ; Johannes Hozius ; Maximilia- 

 nus Cvu-z, dated 1658 ; and Antoiiius Scliottius, dated 

 1680, all of the folio fize. 



Jeanne Sibclle Keefell, born at Augfburg in the year 

 1646, was the third daughter of Melchior, married Jean 

 Ulrich Kraus, engraved, among other plates, a fet of four, 

 of the Satyr and Villagers, Juno, Venus, and Pallas, 

 after Elfliiemer, and died in her native city in 1 7 17. 



Jonas Umbach was alfo of Augftnirg, born in the 

 year 1624, and merits an high rank among the artifts of 

 Germany. His prints confiit chiefly of etchings attcv his 

 own defigns, executed with fpirit and an appearance of faci- 

 lity. He engraved one hundred and eleven plates, of which 

 the following are the fubjeds of the principal, and died in 

 his native city about the commencement of the fevcnteenth 

 century-. " A Madonna and Child." "An Holy Fa- 

 mily."' " A Penitent Magdalen, " and " St. Peter,'' all of 

 fmall dimenfions. . Four plates fVom " The Parable of the- 

 Good Samaritan.'' Four ditto of " Infantile Sports." A 

 pair of '• Triumphs of Mai-ine Deities."' " A Earaily of 

 Satyrs," all of fmall fizes ; and a fet of four land- 

 fcapes, adorned with rjins of ancie.-.t monuments acd 

 palloral figures, dated 1671?, in 410. higlily efteemcd e*»- 

 gravings. 



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