GERMAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



'« Jofeph and his Brethren," and another from the Hiftory 

 of Solomon, both in large folio. " The Incredulity of 

 St. Thomas ;" and another in folio, from the Life of 

 Chrift, infcribed " Sapiciitia unigena Dei Maximi." " St. 

 Thercfa in Extafy," a large folio. " The partinjr of 

 HeAor and Avidromache," in foho. A rich campolition 

 of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, with the motto " qiiam 

 Mars nimquam, vicit Venus." A march of Amazons, 

 inlcribed " Virtus viri computa aiftionibus probis." A grand 

 Bacchanalian fubjeit. '•' Venus lamenting Adonis." A 

 fet of four plates of the feafons. " Diana and Endymion." 

 " Bacchus Silenus and Nymphs :" all of the folio dimen- 

 fions : and three large allegoncal firbjedls, ia comphment 

 to the prince of Orange. 



The prints of LairelTe are gencr.illy infcribed with one 

 or other of the four monograms which the reader will find in 

 our third plate of thofe of the German engravers. 



Samuel Buttschild was born at Sangerhaufen, in Thu- 

 ringia, A. D. 1640, and died at Drefden in 1707. He was 

 an artlll of taile ; and, being pofTefled of elevated habits of 

 thinking on profeffional fubjeils, he was appointed director 

 of the Drefden academy, and infpector of the electoral 

 g-llery. His excellence in frefco painting is attefted by his 

 picture of " The Defcent from the Crofs," in the church of 

 St. Martin at Halberltadt, and by feveral paintings which 

 adoi-n the callle gardens near Drefden ; and his etchings are 

 performed with much picturefque freedom : the general 

 character of his art partaking much more of the grand than 

 the graceful. His principal engravings are, " The Army 

 of Sennacherib defeated by the exterminating Angel," in 

 folio. A fet of four, entitled " Le Don de I'Entendement :" 

 " Le Don de la Science ;" " Le Don de la Sageffe ;" 

 " Le Don de la Force," in 410. A fet of the four parts 

 of the day, with Latin infcriptions. A pair of emblcina- 

 t>cal fubjects, intitled " L'Efperance et la Patience ;" •' La 

 Foi ct la Charitc," ovals, in 410. " Ulyffes and Epius,'" 

 and a fubject from the Life of Hercules, both of the foho fi7.e. 



Elias Hainzelmann was born at Augfburg in the year 

 1640, and died in the fame city in 1693. Fie ftudied en- 

 graving at Paris in the fchool of Francois de Poilly, whofe 

 ftyle of manual execution he imitated with great fuccefs ; 

 and Strutt has well obfer-ved, that Jiad his drawing been 

 equally correft, his works would have ranked with thofe of 

 the greate'il mafters. They pofTcfs, however, efpecially his 

 portraits, a confiderable ihare of merit. 



From Hainzelmar.n's hiftorical works, the following will 

 probably be found molt worthy of felcdtion : " The 

 Silence," after AnnibalCaracci ; fo called, becaufe, while the 

 Infant Chriit is deeping, the Madonna hvlds up her finger to 

 St. John, as he approaclics, to prevent his dilturbing the Sa- 

 viour. This picture has fince been engraved by others, but 

 particularly by Bartolozzi in a very fuper;or ityle. A large 

 upright plate of an Holy Family, after Sebaflian Bourdon ; 

 and t wo others le iglhways, of the fume fubjeft, from the fame 

 paintcr,in one of wiiich the infant St. John prefents a Iamb, and 

 in the other an apple, to Jefus Chrift. St. Francis, after Domi- 

 nichino. " The noli me tangcre," or Chrift in the gaidcn, 

 approached by Mary Magdalen, after Albauo. " The 

 Madonna and C'iiild," after Raphael, i. Jefus Arnabilis ; 

 Mater Amabihs ; St. Regard; all of the folio fize. 



His belt portraits are thole of Franci.^ Zavitr, of the 

 fraternity of Jefuits ; George Philip Riis, after Ulric 

 Mayr ; Marcus Haberns, and Juliana Beiiedicita Winklerin, 

 after the fame. David Thoman ab HagelltciD, after de 

 Neve; i". gnes van Schoenberg ; Godfrecd Eggerus ; Ga- 

 briel Wilkx ; John Jacob Haller, after D. Savoy, all in 

 fclio, and Jolian Chriftoph. ab A dclmannsfelden, after 



C. C. Krctzfchmann, in T:?ry large folio; tlie head, tiie 

 fizc of real life. 



Jean Ulric Kraus, or KraufTcD, was born at Augfburg 

 A.D. 1645, and died in the fame city in 171.9. He was the 

 difciple of Melchior ICulTcll, and married Jean Sjbille bin 

 daughter, and became a clofe imitator of the works of his 

 contemporary Le Clerc. But all followers arc neccifarily 

 b< hind. Though Kraus copied Le Clcrc's life of Chrift, 

 (which conlifta of fixty fubjedts) it it fufficiently obvious that 

 they are but copies. 



His engravings are numerous, chiefly from his own com- 

 pofitions, and llie fubjedts of them, for the nioft part, views 

 of buildings, or taken from the Old and New Teftameuts. Ia 

 imitation of his mode! Le Cierc, he generally introduced a 

 vaft multitude of figures into hh compofitions, but thevare 

 kfs graceful, and far lefs well drawn. He frequently en- 

 riched his back grounds with architecture, whicli he appears 

 to have well underftood, and his chiarofcuro is often judi- 

 cioufly difpofed, and his general eftects good. 



The cypher with which Kraus ufually marked his prints 

 mil be found in our thii-d plate of German monograms, and 

 the lift of his principal works is as follows : a fet of fixty 

 fubjetts copied from Le Clerc's life of Chrift, on fmall folio 

 plates, two fubjects on each, printed at Augfburg 1705. The 

 hiftoryof the Old and New Tcftaments, in 410 containing 

 four fmall fubjects on each plate, and apparently dcfigned to 

 be bound in Svo, fo as to have two fubjefts only on a leaf. 

 The number of leaves would then amount to one hundred 

 and eighty-eight, and they are fo numbered. The four 

 feiifons, and the four elements, defigned for the royal ta- 

 pcrtries. A fet of twelve intereftiug views of the city of 

 Nuremberg, after Andrea Graf, in folio, and a very large 

 and capital view of St. Peter's church at Rome, afler the 

 fame mailer. 



Carl Guftave d'Amling, or ab Ambling, was born at Nu- 

 remberg AD. 1651, and died at Munich in the year 1702. 

 He ftudied under F. de Poilly at Paris, and imitated his 

 ftyle, but Avith no very great lucccfs. He was a painter as 

 well as an engraver, but was chiefly engaged in engraving 

 portraits. When he attempted hiftory, neither his drawing 

 of the naked, nor the cxprefiion of his heads is correct, and 

 the general appearance of his prints is cold and metallic. 



Yet the race is not alua) s to the fwift, nor the battle to 

 the ftrong, and Amling, iiotwithftanding thefe defects, ob- 

 tainel court patronage, and bjcamc engraver to the duke of 

 Bavaria. 



Of his numerous portraits, we fnall only mention thofe 

 of Maximilian Emanuel, electoral prince of Bavaria, after T. 

 Macolinus Muficus, dated 1670, a rare print. Maximilian 

 Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, after J. B. Champagne, both in 

 folio, and the latter efteemed one of his very beft per- 

 formances. An equeltrian llatue, alio of his patron, and 

 Henrietta Maria Adelaide, duchefs of Bavaria, after Dela- 

 monce, dated 1675,11 an oval, and alio of folio dimcnfions. 



Of his hiftoricid works the principal are, a fet of thirteen 

 plates of different fizes, of the hiftories of the emperor Otho 

 and Louis of Bavaria, from the tapellries in the c<aftle of 

 Munich, which were executed after P. Candido. Another 

 fet of nine in folio, from the fiune tapellries, rcprcfenting 

 perfonifications of the mouths September, October, and No- 

 vember, the lour Seafons, Morning, and Niglit. 



The family of Meyer flourilhed as artifts, and chiefly as 

 engravers, through two centuries. Joachim was born at 

 Stralbiu-g early in the Gxttenlh, and diilinguiihed himfelf 

 by engraving a fet of fixtytwo prints of combats witli the 

 fwoid. 

 Andrea was u native of Zuricli, and engraved feveral views 



