LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



fcribed " Petrus Breughel fecit Romae 1553 ;" and all the 

 above are of folio fjze. , 



Early proofs of tlie works of Hieronymus, or Jerome 

 Cock, are much fotight after by the curious, but it is on 

 account of their fcarcity and not their merit, for his ftyle is 

 laborious, poor, and fcratchy. The praifc which Vaiari 

 has laviiiied on him, is therefore not merited. His biogra- 

 phy we have already fufficiently detailed, (fee the article 

 Cock), except that we have there omitted to mention that he 

 was born at Antwerp in the year 1510. His monogram, 

 fimilar to that of Hans Collaert, will be faund in our firit 

 plate of thofc ufed by the engravers of the Low Countries. 

 From his numerous engravings, we feleft the following as 

 thofe l^■hich are held in moll elleem, beginning with his 



Portraits. — A pair of the oval form, in 4to. of Francis II. 

 king of France and Scotland, and Mary queen of Scotland 

 and France. Anollier pair of Guilavus and Maria, king 

 and queen of Sweden. Another of Soliman, emperor of 

 the Turks, and Camilia his daughter, all in ovals, and of 

 folio dimenfions. A large folio plate, containing tue heads of 

 Guide, Cavaleantes, Dante, Boccacio, Petrarch, Politian, 

 and Ficinus. And, conjointly with Wicrix, a fct of twenty- 

 four of celebrated arlifts of Germany, in folio, dated 

 i572. 



ProceJfimSt Views, &c. — A fet of fifty-nine, entitled 

 " PrsEcipua aliquot Romanas antiquitatis m-jnumenta An- 

 twerpiae M. D. L. I. " Another fet of twenty, entitled 

 " Operum antiquorum Romanorum hinc inde per diverfas 

 Europe re^'iones." "The Furieral Proceffion of the Emperor 

 Charles V." engraved on feveral plates, and forming, when 

 palled together, a long frieze. A fet of twelve plates, en- 

 titled «' Divi Caroli V. ex multis prsecipus vicloriarum 

 imagines 1556." A fet of fifteen, entitled " Compartimen- 

 torum quod vocant multiplex genus lepidiflimis hiftoriolis 

 poetarumque tabellis ornatum, 1^66. Gedruckt by Hiero- 

 nymus Cock in de vicr Winden." 



Hyioiical, &c. — " Mofes with the Tablets of the Law ;" 

 «' St.Chrillophercroffing the Water with the Infant Chrift,'' 

 a fubietl from the life of Sylla, infcribed " Quidquid eft 

 hujufmodi etc. ;" "A Sacrifice to Priapus," where the lacri- 

 Scers are reprefented flaughtering an afs, 1557 ; " Fcemina 

 fub Jove funt ;" Tarquin and Lucretia, " Tarquinius, 

 &c." An emblem of Vanity, infcribed " Hodie mihi, 

 eras tibi :" it reprefents the dead bodyof a young man lying 

 on a table near aflcull : at the bottom of the pi-intis written 

 " Vigilate quia etc." Cock excud. ; all in folio. 



Various SuhjeBs from the Painters of the Lonu Countries. — 

 A fet of fifteen hillorical landfcapes, painted by Math?w 

 Cock, and engraved by Jerom, of which the fubjefts are ; 

 I. Abraham facrificing Ifaac. 2. Judah and Tamar. 

 3. The Prophet Jonas weeping over Nineveh. 4. The De- 

 parture of Tobias with the Angel. 5. The Flight into 

 Egypt. 6. The Baptifm of our Saviour. 7. Jefus 

 tempted in the Defart. 8. The good Samaritan. 9. Mer- 

 cury and Argus. 10. Mercury killing Argus. 11. Venus 

 mourning for the Lofs of Adonis. 12. Cephalus and Pro- 

 cris, 1558. 13. The wondrous Labyrinth. 14. The Loves 

 of Hero and Leander. 15. Daphne metamorpho{ed into a 

 Laurel. A large landfcape, reprefenting the feftival of St. 

 George, with the banner of the faint, from Mathew Cock ; 

 " Sampfon and Dalilah," with the temple of the Philif- 

 tines in the back-ground, in large folio, from Hemflcerck ; 

 •* Daniel in the Lion's Den," in the back-ground are the 

 Babylonians lamenting the overthrow of the dragon and 

 Bel, and the prophet Habakkuk is conduced through the 

 air by an angel, from the fame matter, in large folio. A 

 fet of eight, reprefenting theiUuftrious women of the Old and 



New Teftaments, ii/a. Jael, Ruth, Abigail, Judith, Efther» 

 and Sufannah, from the old, and the Virgin Mary and the 

 Magdalen from the new, in folio. An allegorical fubjeft, re- 

 prefenting " Fraud and Avance ;'' a bacchanalian fubjeft 

 of " Children dancing," both of folio fi/.e, all from Hem- 

 llverck ; " Tlie Refurre£lion of our Saviour," from Breughel 

 the elder, in large folio ; " The Temptation of St. James 

 and St. Anthony," 1565, both in folio; and from the fame 

 matter, " The Laft Judgment," with the cypher of Cock, 

 dated ijyS, in large folio; " The Laboratory of an Al- 

 chymitt," in folio ; " The Carnival, or Difpute between the 

 Fat and the I..can," in two folio plates, dated 1563. A fet 

 of twelve hillorical landfcapes, moft of them facred fub- 

 jefts, with Latin infcriptions, of large folio fize, etched by 

 Jerom Cock, all of them from the elder Breughel. A 

 grotefque compofition of " The large Fi(h devouring the 

 fmaller," from Jerom Bos ; it is infcribed " Vrinden dit 

 hceftmcn reel Jaren geweten Dat de groote Viflen de cley- 

 ncnedlen," in large folio. A large folio print of "The 

 Temptation of St. Anthony," inlcribed' " Multx tribu- 

 latioiies." " St. Martin in a Boat with Devils," in large folio ; 

 " A Dream," 1561 ; " Shrove Tuefday," an allcgoriciil 

 fubjcft, of large folio fize, 1567 ; " De Blau Schuyte," 

 " The Blue Ship," in large folio, all from Jerom Bos; 

 " The Combat of the Horalii and Curiatii," after Franc 

 Floris ; " Hercules ileeping, affailed by Pigmies," from the 

 fame mailer, both in large folio ; " King Ahafuerus, fur- 

 rounded by his Court, inverting Efther with Royalty," 

 from Lambert Lombard ; " Jefus with his Difciples, at 

 the Houfe of Martha and Mary," I <:,l(>, in large folio ; 

 "Jefus at Table in the Houfe of Simon the Pharifee," 

 1551, in folio; "The Refurreftion of Lazarus," both 

 from the fame matter, in large folio, all infcribed H. Cock, 

 exc. 



Subjeas from Italian Maflers. — " Abraham offering up 

 Ifaac,'' and the angel appearing with a ram, from Raphael, 

 1J52, in folio; "The Nativity," from the fame painter, 

 in folio ; " Many are called, but few are chofen," in large 

 folio, from Andrea del Sarto, dated IJJS ; " Females 

 bathing," a folio print, from Lucas Penni ; " Captives re- 

 pofing," a frieze from Pohdore ; " The Paflage through 

 the Red Sea," from Angelo Bronzino, in folio ; " The 

 Vifitation of Elizabeth," from Sebaftian del Piombo, in 

 folio. 



Jacob Bofius, or Boffius, furnamed in Italy the Belgian, 

 was born in the early part of the fixteenth century, but in 

 what part of the Low Countries we are unable to fay. He 

 ftudied in Italy under fome one of the difciples of Marc 

 Antonio, but never rofe above mediocrity. His ftyle is 

 neat, but wants both freedom and correftnefs of outline. 

 The extremities of his figures efpecially are heavy and not 

 well marked. 



He often marked his engravings with two B's, Avhich 

 (hews that he adopted the furnamc of Bclgia, which was 

 conferred on him by the caprice of the Itahans. The time 

 of his death has not been mjntioned. 



Of his works the following few appear to include all the 

 variety which Boffius was capable of exerting, and more 

 than he could exert with credit as an artitt. 



The portrait of Michael Angelo, in odlavo. Bufts of 

 St. Thomas Aquinas, and Otho Truchfefs, biftiop of Albany, 

 in quarto. " The Crucifixion," in folio. A fet of the 

 four Evangelifts, after Blockland, in quarto. " Jacob's 

 myfterious Dream," and " St. Peter and St. John healing 

 the Cripple" both in folio, and after Raphael. The ftatue 

 of Pyrrhus^ king of the Moloffes, from the antique, in folio, 



dated 



