LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



donna della Segiola ;" " The Angel appearing to the Shep- 

 herds," after BalTan, in foho ; " St. Chriilopher bearing the 

 Infant Chrift on his Shoulder ," in tolio ; " The Murder of 

 the Innocents," in large folio, from Tintoretto; "The 

 Call of St. Peter," after F. Barroccio ; " Chrill carried to 

 the Tomb," a fine print, arched at the top, from the fame 

 painter; "The Scoiirgingof Chrift," from Jofeph d'Anpinas; 

 «' The Martyrdom of St. Sebailian," after the youDger 

 Palma ; " The rich Man in Hell, and the poor one in I lea- 

 ven," from the fame painter ; "Angelica and Medora," writing 

 on the bark of a tree, from Carlo Cjliari, all in large 

 folio ; " Efclavonia," a young female, elegantly apparelled, 

 from Titian, in folio; an allegorical print on the death of 

 the wife of Sprangcr, accompanied with a medallion ; " The 

 three Maries going to the Sepulchre ;" " The Arts and 

 Sciences triumplung over Ignorance and Barbarifm ;" 

 " Hercules and Omphaie ;" " Venus and Cupid," all in 

 large fo'io, after Spranger ; " The Annunciation," after de 

 Witt, in large folio ; " Reward," a winged figure. ft.anding 

 on a globe, infcribed " Dat Deus o:nne Bopum ;" an 

 obehflv with the armour of the count of Mansfeld, infcribed 

 " Sum Uiibra Alarum Aquila:," both in large folio; two 

 bufts of angel;, after Albert Durer ; two fine heads of 

 youths; "The Virgin and Child," in a landfcape, fur- 

 rounded by aninrals ; in the back-ground is introduced the 

 Annunciation of the Shepherds, engraved with great deli- 

 cacy ; " Chrill b.-'aring the Crofs," all after Albert Durer, 

 in folio ; " Judith with the Head of Holofernes," from 

 H. von Achem ; " The Adoration of the Shepherds ;" 

 " The Virgin and holy Infant, careffing the little St. John," 

 all in folio,' from the fame painter ; " Minerva introducing 

 Painting to the Mufes," a grand compofnion, in the talle of 

 Spranger, in large folio, from Ab. Ach ; and four fubjects 

 fro:i; the Life of the Virgin, v'l-z. " The Annunciation," 

 " The Vintation," " The Circumcifion," and "The Af- 

 fumption," after J. Speccard, in folio. 



LanJj'capss. — A fet of fifteen, from John (commonly 

 called Velvet ) Breughel, in folio, in which are introduced, 

 1. St. Jerome before a crucifix. 2. A repole during the 

 flight into Egypt. 3. Tobit with the angel. 4. Our Sa- 

 viour tempted in the wildernefs. 5. St. Francis Itigmatifed. 

 6. A fifh-market on the fea-coall. 7. A view of a gulf, 

 with company on the fhore. S. A llage-coach driving. 

 9. A windmill and village on the banks of a river. 10. A 

 company of gypfies. 1 1 . A flone and a wooden bridge, 

 with two pilgrims. 12. Two travellers, one cf whom is 

 repofing. 13. A woody landfcape. 14. Soldiers defcend- 

 ing a mountain. 15. A ferry-boat. 



Various, from Paul Bril, in foUo- — A mountainous land- 

 fcape, into which is introduced a repofe during the flight 

 into Egypt ; " A Hermit reading in his Cell," in a land- 

 fcape ; two bridges of wood and Itone ; a mountainous land- 

 fcape, ornamented with cattle and figures; fix vievis in 

 Italy, with buildings and cattle ; fix landfcapes, into which 

 are introduced the twelve months of the year, very capital 

 engravings. 



Landfcapes from Roland Savery. — A fet of fix views in 

 B'lhemi-i, witli mills, water, and wood, in fmall 4to. ; an- 

 other let of fix, in Bohen-ia, with catarafts, travellers, &c. 

 in fmail folio; anoiher fet o' fix: I. Villagers regaling 

 under a trellis-arbour. 2. Buildings on the banks of 

 a canal. 3. A flag-hunt. 4. Labourers on the top of 

 a moui.tain. 5. A goat-herd rep<>fing near a cafcade. 

 And, 6. A warrener, in folio. A fet of five grand land- 

 fcapes, from '.he mountiins of Tyrol, in folio, with cata- 

 ra£;s, figures, &.c. ; and two others, of rock and forell 

 fcencry, alfo from the mountains of Tyrol. 



From Pietro Stephar.i. — A fet of four rich landfcapes, of 

 the feafons, in large folio ; a fet of eight fine landfcapes, 

 with wind-milb, figures, &c. in large folio; and another 

 fet of twelve, in folio, of the months of the year. 



Of the fame family, but of merit fomewhat inferior, were 

 Jooll or Juftus, Philip, and Raphael Sadeler the younger, 

 who were feverally inllrucled by their parents, and worked 

 mechanically in the fame (lyle, merely multiplying the num- 

 ber of prints, without advancing in the fmalleft degree the 

 general claims or capabilities of their art. 



Juftus was the fon of John, and his beft performances are 

 certain portraits of the family of Gon/ague, and an odd fort 

 of Dutch " Holy Family," from Rottenhamer, wherein 

 the holy Virgin is rcprefented fwaddling the infant Saviour, 

 while an angel is ftrangely bufied in warming his linen. 



Raphael Sadeler, the younger, was the fun of the Raphael 

 whom we have mentioned above, andoccafionally alGftcd his 

 father in his prufelTion, particularly in engraving the fet of 

 Bavarian faints. H? alfo engraved " Venus and Adonis," 

 a fmill upright, from Titian, and "The four Evangclifts," 

 from P. Candidus, with other devotional fubjcfts. 



Philip was the degenerate fon of Giles. A Mark Sadeler 

 has alfo been mentioned, but is believed to have been only 

 the publilher of the works of his more ingenious relations. 



Among the caprices of fortuit.-iu? biography, it has been 

 the fortune of fome who have benefited mankind, to have 

 their merits p^ifs unrecorded. Von Londerfel, on the con- 

 trary, though not of firft-rate talent, has" been celebrated 

 under two names, both by Papillon and by Stnitt. 



He appears to have been a native of Holland, born about 

 the middle of the fixteenth century, and to have beea 

 chiefly engaged in the execution of letter-prefs engravings, 

 in a reat and d'-licate ftyle, refembling that of Virgil Soils, 

 and which are marked fometimes with one and at other 

 times with the other of the two monograms, which will be 

 found in Plate II . of tliofe of the fch.^ol of the Low Countries. 



It is not unlikely that thefe two marks may have given 

 rife to the leparation of his works into thofe of Ahafuerus 

 Lardfeld, and Ahafuerus Londerfel. That he was related 

 to the John Von Londerfel, of whom we fhall treat here- 

 after, is highly probable. From the fmallnefs of his pro- 

 duftions, of which the greater number adorn the bocks that 

 were publilhed at Antwerp about this period ; he i.'i claffcd 

 among the little mailers, but his engraving of " The Lad 

 Supper" is on a fomewhat larger fcale. 



Among the books which he thus decorated, are the 4fo. 

 edition, in the French language, of ■' The Travels of Ni- 

 cholas de Nicolay into I'urkey," printed at Antwerp in 

 1576, and the large Herbal of Matthias de Lobel. Detached 

 fuhjects from the holy fcriptures are fometimes to be met 

 with, which probably belong to a bible, m which Londerfel 

 at leaft alhfted in the produftion of the engravings. 



Charles de Mallery was bom at Antwerp A.D. 1571^ ; 

 it is not known of whom he learned the rudiments of draw- 

 ing and ergraving, but from the great refemblance his flyle 

 bears to that of the two Wierixes, it is probable he (ludied 

 in their fchool. He was a very laborious artill, and ei graved 

 a great number of devotional fubjeCls, animals, and book, 

 orntimc: ts. 



He worked with the graver onlv, and fo exceedingly neat, 

 that he, in fome inilances, equalled the moft laboured per- 

 formances of Jerom and Antiiony Wierix. But then he did 

 not draw fo corrcflly , fo that witli inferior powers as an ar- 

 ti/i, he fecnis to have pofTtfl'td the fame fliare of patience and 

 attention, and manual fliill. He had the. honour of having 

 his portrait twice paint( d by Vandyke, both were fuc- 

 cefsful pidurcs, and the prints after them by Vorfterman and, 



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