LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



prints with the two fmall fighting cocks, which we have 

 copied m Plate II. of the marks, &c. iifed by the engravers 

 of the Low Countries ; though for what reafon cannot eafily 

 be imagined, as he was not a Frenchman, unlefs it were to 

 denote that thefe engravings were performed by Jerome 

 Cock and himfelf in conjundtion. 



The abbe Marollcs polTefred upwards of one hundred and 

 fifty engravings by this matter. Of thefe we are able to 

 enumerate the following, beginning with his 



Portraits. — Cornelius Cort, engraved by himfelf, in a 

 quarto oval ; a pair of Henricus II. Gallorum rex, and 

 Catherine de Medicis, the French queen, in ovals of large 

 quarto fizc ; Don Juan of Auftria ; Marc'Antonius More- 

 tus, a Roman citizen ; Andrea Alciati, all in ovals ; three 

 portraits engraved for J. Cock, viz. Roger of Bruflels, 

 Theodore van Harlem, and Joachim Dionatinfis, all artitts ; 

 the genealogical tree of the illuilrious family of Medicis, 

 with the portrait of Scipio Amirato ; the genealogical tree 

 of the family of Cambi Importuni ; and two butts of De- 

 mocritus and HeracHtus, m i2mo. 



SubjeSs from his own Compofilians. — " The Birth of the 

 Holy Virgin," in folio, dated 1568; "The miraculous 

 Conception," wherein the Virgin Mary is furrounded by 

 allegorical devices, dated 1567 ; " The Infant Jefus in the 

 Temple;" "A Repofe during the Flight into Egypt," 

 156S ; " A Holy Family," wherein St. Jdfeph is repre- 

 fented giving a pear to the infant Chritt ; " The Latt Sup- 

 per ;" " A Crucifix," fupported by two angels, whdll others 

 are difplaying the tablets of the law, and a clialice ; " The 

 Refurreftion of our Saviour;" " St. Theodore the Patron 

 Samt of Venice, fighting with a Dragon ;" " St. Catherine 

 kneeling on the Inttruments of her Martyrdom, crowned by 

 two Angels ;" " St. Verediana, a Virgin, kneeling before 

 an Altar, with a Serpent at her Feet," 1570 ; two tem- 

 peftuous fea-pieces ; a frontifpiece, reprefenting the Virgin 

 feated between two chemitts ; " A Fawn placing a young 

 Bacchus in a Niche;" " A Soldier carrying an Infant;" 

 and " A young Man feated, drawing a Thorn from his 

 Foot," all of folio dimenfion^. 



SubjeBs engraved from various Flemifb Majlers, before Cort 

 'went to Italy. — " Adam and Eve ;" they are feated under 

 the tree of life, whiltt a ferpent, with a human head, prelenls 

 an apple to Eve, fro-^i Michael Coxie ; " The RelurreC'tion 

 of Chritt;" " The Defcent of the Holy Ghott ;" " Our 

 Saviour accoiipanied by Sts. Peter and Paul," all of folio 

 fize, from Michael Coxie ; a leries of four folio plates, from 

 the parable of " Dives and Lazarus/' after Hemikerck ; 

 another feries of four, from the parable of " The good 

 Servant;" and the parable of " The Vineyard," all from 

 the fame painter, in folio; a let of fix, in folio, from '■ The 

 Hiftory of Noah," from Franc. Fioris ; " The Hiftory of 

 Abraham," in a fet of the fame number; " The Hiftory 

 of Jacob and Rachael," engraved on fix plates in the form 

 of a fan ; " The Labours of Hercules," m ten folio plates ; 

 " Ihe Hiftory of Pluto and Proferpuie, ' in four plates of 

 folio fize; "The Triumph of Bacchus and Venus," all 

 from the fame ; an emblematical fubjeCt on the immorlahty 

 of virtue, after Franc. Fioris, both in Ijrge folio ; " The 

 Defcent from the Crois," alter Van der WyOe, in folio ; a 

 ilanding fig'ire of St. Roch, from J. Speckart ; and St. 

 Lawrence, from the fame painter : " St. Dominic reading," 

 from B Spranger ; "A HulyFamilv, lurroimded with 

 Angels," from the fame ; " 'i'he Virgin crowned in 

 Heaven," after G. Mottaert ; and " The Painting Aca- 

 demy," after Strsdan, all ot folio dimenfions. 



SubjeBs ingraved in Italy from various great Mailers. 

 1. From Titian. — "The Annunciation," in large folio; 



" The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, ' of the fame fize; 

 another "Annunciation," in folio ; " The Holy Trinity," 

 known by the appellation of " the All-powerful," in large 

 folio ; " St Jerome reading," in folio ; another folio plate of 

 " St. Jerome, at the Entrance of his Cell, proftrate before a 

 Crucifix," a very rare print, omitted in Heinneken's cata- 

 logue of the works of Cort: a half figure of " A Mag- 

 dalen;" another " Magdalen in the Defart, before a Cru- 

 cifix ;" " Tarquin and Lucretia," folio fize ; " Diana and 

 Calitta," large folio ; " Prometheus chained to the Rock ;" 

 and " Rinaldo delivering Angelica from the Dragon," both 

 in large folio. 



From Jerom Mutian. — " St. Peter walking on the Sea ;" 

 " Chriil crowned with Thorns;" " Chrilt bearing, the 

 Crofs ;" « The Defcent from the Crofs ;" " Jefus Chrift 

 appearing to the three Maries, and St. John, on their way 

 to Jerufalem ;" another " Defcent from the Crofs ;" " St. 

 Jerom meditating;" all of folio dimenfions; and "The 

 feven Penitents." Thefe are large landfcapes, in which are 

 introduced fmall figures of the faints, Mary Magdalen, 

 Jerome, John the Baptift, Hubert, Onophrom, Francis 

 (ftigmatifed), and Francis (inextacy) : fix of them are up- 

 right plates, and the feventh lengthways. 



From Julio Clovio. — " The Annunciation ;" " The Adora- 

 tion of the Kings ;" a half figure of " The Virgin holding 

 the Infant Jefus ;" and " The youthful Jefus preaching in 

 the Temple ;" all in folio. " Jefus baptifed by .St. John in 

 the River Jordan ;" and " The Crucifixion," both in large 

 folio; " The dead Body of our Saviour, and one of the 

 Maries kilTing his Hand ;" " The Entombing of Chrift," 

 in folio ; " Chrift appearing to Mary Magdalen," of thg 

 fame fize ; " The Converfion of St. Paul ;" " Chritt on the 

 Crofs," a grand compofition, both in large folio ; and " St. 

 George and the Dragon," in folio. 



From Taddeo Zuccaro. — " The Creation of Adam and 

 Eve," in large folio ; " The youthful Virgin prefented in 

 the Temple," in folio ; a large folio plate of " The Nati- 

 vity," a rich compofition ; " A Holy Family," wherein 

 St. John holds a lamb ; " The Miracle of the five Loaves," 

 both in folio ; " The Body of our Saviour before the Sepul- 

 chre," a grand compofition ; " The Defcent of the Holy 

 Ghott," both of large folio dimenfions ; and a folio print 

 of " The Martyrdom of St. Agatha." 



jlfter Frederic Zuccaro. — " Moles and Aaron before Pha- 

 roah ;" " The Birth of the Virgin ;" and " The Con- 

 ception of the Virgin," who is iupported and crowned by 

 angels ; " The Annunciation of the Virgin ;" " The Na- 

 tivity," a grand compofition, all in large folio ; " The 

 Adoration of the Magi ;'' " A Holy Family," where a cat 

 is introduced catching a bird ; " The Flight into Egypt ;" 

 " Our Saviour tempted in the Wildernefs ;" " The ^V'oman 

 taken in Adultery ;" " Jefus turning the Money-Changera 

 out of the Temple;" " The Refurrection of Lazarus;" 

 " The good Samaritan ;" " St. Peter chofen Head of the 

 Church ;" " Our Saviour on the Mount of Olives ;" " The 

 Jews approaching our Saviour in the Garden of Olives ;" 

 " The Death of the Virgin ;" " The Coronation of the 

 Virgin ;" " St. Lawrence and St. Sixtus," furrounded 

 with an ornamental border, ail of folio dimenfions ; " The 

 Diipute of the Holy Sacrament," in large tolio ; " Labour 

 arid Juftice," an emblematical fubject, in lolit). A large fati- 

 rical print on the officers of pope Gregory XIIL, rcpre« 

 fenting a young man accufed by Calumny and proteifted by 

 Innocence, before a judge, with the ears of an als, [ihe 

 whole of which is taken trom Lucian's defcription of a loft 

 picture, by Apellcs) ; and another latirical print engraved on 

 two large plates ; in the lower part of the compolition is 



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