LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



and two angels prcfentinj; fruit, in fmall folio ; a half figure 

 of ihe Virgin, with the holy infant on a cufhion, in 4to. ; 

 " The Virgin and Child crowned," in folio, both after 

 Candidus ; " St. Francis," (in the hack-ground is a figure 

 proftrate before a crucifix,) in folio ; and " The Immacu- 

 late Conception," both in folio, and after Candidus ; " The 

 Virgin feated under a Canopy," prefenting the infant 

 Chrift to a high-priefl, accompanied by many other figures, 

 in large folio, from the fame painter ; " The Refiirreftion 

 of Lazarus," after J. Rotenliamer, in folio ; "The Mar- 

 riage of St. Catherine," in a landfcape, from Henry Golt- 

 zius, in folio ; " God appearing to Cain, after the Murder 

 of Abel," fromM. deVos; " The Dead Chrill," attended 

 by the three Maries, St. John, and two angels holding 

 torches, after Stradan ; " Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres," 

 infcribed " Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus. Gil. Coig- 

 iiet inv. ;" "The Uncertainty of Life,'' e.Kcniplified by 

 Death feizing a lady at a grand repaft, after Stradanus ; 

 " Chrid on the Crofs, attended by St. .lohn and the two 

 Maries," from the younger Palma, all of folio fize ; " The 

 Virgin fuckling the Infant Jefus," furrounded by a garland 

 of flowers, in 4to. from Carracci ; " A Holy Family," 

 where the infant Jefus has one knee on his cradle, and the 

 other on his mother's lap, while St. John prefents him a 

 little crofs : the back-ground prefents a mountainous land- 

 ' fcape, in folio, from Raphael. A fine circular print of " The 

 Annunciation," a poetical compofition, after F. Zuccaro, 

 in folio; "The Adoration of the Kings," in folio, after 

 Baffan;" Jefus at Table with the Pilgrims to Emmaus," after 

 the fame painter ; a female milking a cow, and giving drink 

 to a little boy, in folio, known by the appellation of " The 

 Little Milk-woman," in folio ; " The Four Seafons," in 

 folio, engraved by Raphael in conjunftion with his brother 

 John, all from Baffan ; " The Four Seafons," after J. Stra- 

 dan, in folio. Six landfcapes, ornamented with rocks, 

 wood, and water, after P. Steevens, in 410. Two wild 

 landfcapes, after Matth. Bril, in folio. Four landfcapes, 

 with the hi (lory of the good Samaritan, in folio, from P. Bril. 

 _ Four land.^capes from the fame painter, in folio. Another 

 fet of four, aft^r the fame. A fet of fix emblematical 

 figures, infcribed "Amor," " Nuptia," "Labor," "Ho- 

 nor," " Arma," and " Venatio," after Martyn de Vos. 

 A fet of four allegorical fubjefts, on the four tempeiaments 

 of man, in folio, from de Vos. A fet of faints, entitled 

 " Bavaria fanfta," and " Bavaria pia," in folio, after Matth. 

 Kager, engraved by Raphael the elder, and his fon of that 

 name. And " The Battle of Prague," engraved on eight 

 plates, in folio, extremely rare, and marked with the name 

 of Raphael Sadeler. 



Egidius, or Giles Sadeler, was born at Antwerp 

 AD. 1570, and died at Prague in 1629. He was the 

 nephew and difciple of the two preceding artifls, and fol- 

 lowing their ileps, travelled through Germany and Italy, 

 refiding awhile in thofe cities where art flourilhed, for his 

 improvement. 



He was afterwards invited to Prague by the emperor Ro- 

 dolphus II. who gave him a pcnfion, which was afterwards 

 continued by his fucceffbrs, tlie emperors Matthias and Fer- 

 dinand II. He handled the graver with more facih'ty, tafte, 

 and freedom than his uncles, and reprefcnted the textures of 

 his objefls with more feeling than had hitherto been dif- 

 played, unlefs by the very firft artiils of the German fchool. 

 He treated portraits and hiftorical fubje£ls in a broad free 

 llylc, and harmonized and oppofcd his lights and fhadows 

 in fo judicious a manner, that it produced forcible elfeft, 

 without blacknefs. 



He generally drew correftly, but in the fubjcdls he en- 

 graved after Spranger, the contours of his figures, in con- 

 formity with the extravagant ftyle of that mailer's defign, 

 are overcharged ; he excelled both in portrait and land- 

 fcape ; and was called by his contemporaries the phoenix of 

 engraving. The following remarks from the pen of Watelet, 

 which he intended fliould be applied to the whole family, are 

 more particularly applicable to Giles. " It is allonifliing the 

 fuccefs with which the Sadelers have engraved landfcape with 

 the graver ; the old trunks of trees have all the freedom of 

 the pencil, and playfiilnefs of etching ; and it is iir.pofllble 

 to leprefenl, in any better way, falls of water, rocks, and 

 the depths of forells : tlic various weeds and plants which 

 are introduced on the fore-grounds are extremely like nature, 

 and the buildings and back-grounds are executed with fo 

 much tade, that it reprefll'S our regret for the difcouragement 

 of etching." From the numerous engravings of this matter, 

 the following will be found vsorthy of feleftion. 



Portraits. — Burckhard de Bcrliehing, privy-coimfellor 

 of the emperor Rodolphus II. ; Chrillopher Guarinonius 

 Fontaru:, phyfician to the emperor Rodolphus, a very ex- 

 cellent and rare print ; John George Gxdalmaiin, juris con- 

 fulte ; Joachim Huber, counfellor ; Jacob Chimarrliaeus, 

 grand almoner to the emperor; the cardinal of Dietrich- 

 ilein, biihop of Olniutz ; Otto de Starfchedel, counfellor to 

 the eleftor of Saxony, all of quarto fize ; William Angelic, 

 plenipotentiary to Henry IV., in folio ; John Matthew 

 Warenfels, counfellor; Adam, baron of Trautmanfdorf ; 

 Siegfried de Kolonitfch ; Ferdinand de Kolonitfch ; the 

 three ambaffadors from the fophi of Perfia to the emperor 

 Rodolphus, TOz. Mechti Kuli, Beg Sinai Chaen, and Cu- 

 chein Olhbeg, all in folio ; Torquatus Taffo, a very rare 

 print, in 4to. ; Oftavins Strada, antiquary, in <)to., rare; 

 Peter Breughel, the elder, in tolio ; Martin de Vos ; Si- 

 gifmond Bathori, prince of Tranfvlvania ; Michael Voivode 

 of Walachia, in an oval ; Charles de Longiievai, count of 

 Buquoi, all in folio ; buft of the emperor Matthias, fur- 

 rounded with allegorical figures and infcriptions ; a pair of 

 the emperor Matthias, a three-quarter figure, and its com- 

 panion, the emprefs Anne, both in large rolio ; a large up- 

 right print of the emperor Rodolphus on horfeback ; the 

 emperor Ferdinand II. on liorffback, with various em- 

 blematical figures and infcriptions, in two large piates, 

 joined ; an allegorical fubjecl on the marriage of the emperor 

 Ferdinand with Eleanor of Mantua, in folio ; and an alle- 

 gorical fubjeft on the protection given to the fine arts by 

 the emperor Rodolphus, a very fine print, in large folio. 



Suhjeds from his oivn Compojlt'ions. — A fet c-f twelve, of 

 angels with the inltruments of the pafijon of our Saviour, 

 in linall 410. ; a fet of tour, of the Evange'iils, in 4to. ; a 

 fet of fifty-two views in Rome, entitled " Vefligi delle An- 

 tichita di Roma," in folio; a landfcape and figures, a rare 

 print, in Svo. ; " The Burning of Troy," an etching in 

 410.; a building with niches, introducing the four feafons ; 

 " Charity," with three children, both in folio ; " Narciffus 

 admiring himfelf in a Fountain," in large folio; " Pan and 

 Syrinx preparing to bathe," in folio; "St. Seballian 

 dying, with the Angel extrafting the Arrows from his 

 Side," in large folio; " St. Dominic receiving the Infti- 

 tutioQS of his Order;" " St. Peter and St. Paul ;" " The 

 Scourging of Chrift ;" " The Crucifixion," all in large 

 folio ; and a grand compofition of " The Hall of Prague," 

 on two plates, a very capital engraving. 



H'ljlor'ual, ^c. after -uariBus Maflcrs. — " The holy Virgin 

 fuckling the Infant Chriit," from a picture by Raphael, in 

 the Florentine Gallery, known by the appellation of " Ma- 



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