Rhine, in an oval, from Rubens, quarto fize ; Philip III., 

 king of Spain, in an oval, froin Rnbcns ; Francis de 

 Mcllo, count of Azumar ; Amhrofe Spinola, furnamed 

 the Great General, all of quarto dimenfions. 



Hyiarkal, l^c. — " The Virgin and Ci ild," from Titian ; 



LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



ftanccs which entered into the compofitions from which his Among his moftefteemed performances may be mentioned 

 pnnts are engfraven. the iollowing 



He engraved both portraits and hiflory with fucccfs, but Portraits of celebrated artifts, &c. after the piflures of 

 did not excel in landfcape. From the whole of his works, Vandyke, of fmall folio fize. Peter de Jode, Junior, eii- 

 which arc fimewhat numerous, the connoill'eur may fcle£t graied by himfelf ; Jamesjordaens, painter of Antwerp • 

 the following with advantape. C.rneliusPcelenbourjr, painter, of Utrecht ; John Smellineux, 



The Portraits of Henry du Puy, a Dutch philofophcr, p;>inter, of Antwerp (the fiefli of which is etched) ; Adam 

 in a drcle furnninded by a ferpent, in 410. ; John Boccacio, CoRer ; Andrew Colyns dc Nolo, a (latuarv of Antwerp • 

 from Titian, in folio >. Fcrdmand, count paktinc of the Genevieve d'Urphe, the widow of Charks Alexander, duke 

 "' . - « . ^ ~. .. of Croye ; Jane de Blois ; Henry Liberti, an org^.nilt ; 



John Tzeniaes, count of Tilly ; Albert, duke of Friedland, 

 and count of Walienftein ; Diodorus de Tuldcn, profefFor 

 at Louvain ; Antonio Tried, bifliop of Ghent; Charles 

 Henri, biiron of Mettcrnich, in an ornamental border j,. 

 The Marriage of St. Catherine," bo'h in quarto. A V^uguftus Adolphus, baron of Trantorf, furrounded with 

 large folio print of a " Holy Family," in a mountainous an ornamental border, all of folio fize; Thomas Ricciardi ; 

 landfcape, both from the fame painter. Twelve prints of Simon Vouct del, in 4tn. ; Erneft, count of Ifembourg, 

 " The I^ife and Miracles of St. Catherine of Sit-nna," after chevalier of the golden fleece, a ha'f-lcngth portrait, in 

 Frar.ci"; Vanni, in folio ; " The Adoration of the Shep- armour, after Th. Willeboorts, in 410. ; and a folio print, 

 herds," likewife in falio ; " Chrift at the Himfe of Nico- entitled " Petrus de Francavilla, Gall. Regif Architeft et 

 demus," a night -piece, in large quarto ; " The DrcolIaHcn Sculptor," after J. Bunel. 



of St. .John," in an oval, of oftavo fize, a rare priiit, from Hijlorical Suljcds. — " St. Auguftine," bifliop of Hip- 



Rubens ; " Our Savi,)ur deliveri- g tlie Keys to St. Peter," pona, crowned by Religion, with other accefibry emblems^, 

 in foho ; "The Coronation of Si- Catherine," m folio, m folio ; "St. Francis kneeling before a Crucifix," after 

 An ailegoricnl fubjedt of government, reprefented by a Baroccio, in folio ; " A Holy Family," where Elizabeth, 

 fenvile crowning Prudence with a laurel wreath, in 410. St. John, and Zacharias, are explaining a book held by an 

 Another, of " Tiie Five Senfs," in fo'io. The frontifpiece angel, in large folio, from Titian; "An Emblem of 

 to a book, intitled " Annaia of Flanders," by M. Siitiro, Death," reprefented by an infant fleeping upon tlie oround, 

 reprefenting Flanders, perfonified, leaning on a pedeftal. &c. with a llcull lying by his fide, a fmall plate, lengthways, 

 &c. in folio, all from Riibeiis. Thirty-fix prints in quarto, from Arte'mifa Gentilefca ; " The Vifitation of the Virgin," 

 from the " The Life of Cliriit ;" and " The Lafl Judg- from a piAure by Rubens, in the cathedral at Antwerp, in 

 nient," after a piflure by John Coufm, in the church of the large folio, a very fine and rare print. A fine print of 

 Minims at Vincenncs. The painter has introduced his own " The Three Graces," in large folio ; " Venus rifiny from 

 portrait at the left hand fide of the print. This is one of the Sea," furrounded by nymphs and tritons, in. large folio;, 

 the iargeit prints in exiftence, being engraved on twelve '' The Alliance of the E:irth and Sea," perfiinified by 

 plates ! Cybele and Neptune, a piate of folio fize, as a companion 



Peter de Jode, the younger, the fon of him who is the to that of "Plenty," by Theodore van KefTel, ail after 

 fubjeft of the preceding article, v,-as born at Antwerp, ac- Rubins; "St. Francis and St. Clara, worfhipping the 

 cording to StMtt and the foreign authoritie?, in the year Infant Chrift, lying in the Manger," half figures, wiih the 

 1606. He ftudied under his father, whom he furpaffcd in effett of night, in folio, after G. Seghcrs, the companion 

 talle and facility of handling the graver, though he can to which is" " St. Peter denying Chrilt," engraven by And. 

 fcarcely be faid to have equalled him in the drawing of the de Paulis ; " Chrill difcourfing with Nicodemus," half 

 naked. Onr countryman, Sirutt, tliough generally not figures, with the effeft of night, from the fame painter; 

 deficient in accuracy of notice, has contributed to confufe " The Nativity," from .lordaens, a very fine and rare print,, 

 the chronology of this artift and his father. He fays, " it in large folio ; " St. Martin of Tours expelling the evil 

 does not appear that the younger de Jode went to Italy, Spirit from a Demoniac," very large folio ; "Folly and 

 bin he certainly accompanied his father to Paris, where they Ignorance," half figures, a large folio plate, all trom Jor- 

 engrai-ed conjointly a con!:derab!e number of plates for M. daens ; " St. Auguttin furrounded by Ancrels," a laro-e cir- 

 Bonefant, and le Sieur I'Imago," which, if our author's re- cular plate, after Vandyke; " Rinaldo and Armida," a 

 port of the return of the elder de Jode from Paris might be lar^e folio plate, from the fame mailer, beimr the corn- 

 credited, is making the fon travel to Paris and engrave, panion to another plate, which Bailheu engraved after the 

 before he was born ; forStrutt.in his account of the father, fame painter; " A Holy Family," where the infant Chrilt 

 exprefjly f.iys, " lie returned to Antwerp about the year is held by St. Anne, after Abr. van Diepenbeck. An 

 1601, where he refided till the time of his death." allegorical fubjedl of '• Peace," and " St. .John the Baptift 



Perhaps the fenior de Jode Returned from his firft journey in the Defart," from Van Mol, all large upright plates, 

 in 1601, and afterward, as he did not die till 1634, made a Arnold de Jode, the fon of Peter de Jode the vounger, 

 fecond journey to Paris, taking with him his fon. was born at Antwerp in the year i6j6, and was inftrudcd 



The prints of the junior de Jode are numerous, but very by his father in the art of engraving. In his youth he mi-- 

 unequal in merit. Bafian fays of him, that in feveral of his grated to England, but being no great proficient in his art 

 engravings " he has equalled the bed engravers, and in was not able to contribute mucli to tlie advancement of 

 otliers has funk below himfelf." To which Strutt julUy adds, Engiifii engraving, though the art in this country was then . 

 " he was, without doubt, a very able engraver, but to place at a low ebb. 



him (even in his beft exertions) upon an equ:ility with his He refided here at the time of the great fire of London,, 

 contemporaries, Bolfwert, Pontius, and Vorllermaii, is, in as may be learned from an infcription beneath his print of' 

 my opinion, eftimating his abilities at much too high a " The Infants Chrilt and St. John embracing each other,"' 



rate.' 



after Vandyke, which runs thus, " Arnoldus de Jodej 

 8 fculp>! 



