LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



pifttires : we had almotl faid than thofe of any other land- 

 fcape-engraver whatever. But certainly, in this re^ft, no 

 engraver has fiirpafled him. 



A large landfcape, wherein is introduced a lion-hunt, with 

 a cavalier overthrown and another coming to his refcne. This 

 is one of the fineft engravings of the whole fet. A grand 

 mountainous fubjeft, with romantic falls of water, into which 

 IS introduced theeffeft of a ftorm, and the fable of the hofpi- 

 tality of Philemon and Ba'.icis towards Jupiter and Mercury. 

 The companion to which is a fea-ilorm and fliipwreck ; the 

 fore-ground is occupied by mariners who have efcaped the 

 wreck, and are kindling a fire on the (liore. (This print is 

 commonly called the " Tempell of Eneas.") A foreft- 

 fcene, into which is introduced the fable of iVIeleager and 

 Atalanta ; the champaign of Maliues, with haymakers ; 

 a large landfcape, with animala. in a ftable, and a female 

 filhng a pig's-trough with food. (This laft, completing 

 the fet, is engraved by P. Clouet.) A landfcape with ruined 

 edifices, and two women carrying balkets in the fore-ground. 

 Ruins on a plain, with various ruitic figures. A landfcape, 

 in the fare-ground of which is a wooden bridge, with a 

 fiiepherd and flock. A champaign country, witli two wo- 

 men in the fore-ground, one of whom carries a balket, and 

 the other a rake ; a rainbow is reprefented in the clouds. 

 Sun fet, with a man bringing horfes to water, aiid a land- 

 fcape, with the effect of mooii-light. 



Devotional SiilijeSs, l^t. fiom his s-wn Defgns. — "The 

 Infants Chriit and St. John playing with a Lamb ;" " The 

 Virgin and Infant adeep ;" " The Virgin fuckling the 

 Holy Infant ;" " A Statue of the Virgin, with her Hands 

 orofied on her Bolom ;" all in 2mo. " The Virgin and 

 Child in the Air, attended by Angels and Cherubim ;" 

 •' The Virgin carelTed by the Infant Chrill, with St. Jo- 

 feph." Twelve figures of faints, half-length. Another fet 

 of twelve of faints, ali in Svo. '■ A Hermit proitrate 

 before a Crofs ;'' " The Mother of Grief, piercing her 

 Bofom with a Sword;" " Jefus Chrill trinmpiiing over 

 Death ;•" both in foho. " St. Barbara, a Virgin-Martyr ;'' 

 " St. Staniflaus Koflca, kneeling before an Altar ;" " St. 

 Francis Borgia;" " St. Alphonfo Rodriguez ;" •' R.obcrt 

 BcUarmin, at a Bureau ;" " Leonard LefTius ;" all in large 

 folio., " The refigned Death of a Saint," and " Dreadful 

 Death of a Sinner," two folio prints. An embkmatical fnb- 

 jeft- relating to prince Ferdinand, the governor of the Low 

 Countries, in large folio. " A Thefis," dedicated to Sigif- 

 mond, kind of Poland, on two large plates. The frontif- 

 piece, and five other plates for Thibault's Fencing Aca- 

 demy, in large folio, and a rare print, . entitled "The 

 Difpute between the Fat and the Lean," in large folio. 



Portraits after fir Jlnthmy Vundyke. — Sheltius a Bolfwcrt; 

 Andrea Van Ertvelt ; Martin Pepyn ; Adrian Brouwer ; 

 and John Baptifta Bartc ; (all diftinguilhed artills ;) Juftus 

 Lips, an hillorian ; Albert, prince of Aremberg, Biirban- 

 •fon, &c. ; Maria Rutenj the wife of Vandyke:; Margaret 

 . of Lorrain, duchefs of Orleans ; V/illiam de Vos ; and 

 Sebafiian V.rank ; painters, all of folio din.enfions. 



Hijlorical Suljeds after Vandyke " Maria Mater Die, 



or the Virgin in Extafy," in foho ; " The Virgin with the 

 Infant Chriil on her Knees, .attended by St. John, and an 

 Angel with a Crown," in large folio ; " The Vu-gin con- 

 templating the- Infant Chrift on her Lap, accompanied by a 

 ■Saint holding a palaa Branch ;" " The Virgui feated, with 

 the holy Infant alleep in her Arms, with St. Jofeph," both 

 cf folio fize ; another " Holy Family, attended by Angels;" 

 " TVie Elevation of the Crofs on Mount Calvary ;" " Chrill 

 i>a the Crofs," at the foot of which are. St. Dorainic and 



St. Catherine of Sienna, both in large fcKo ; and " A 

 Drvwiken Silenus, attended by Bacchanals and Satyrs/' in 



folio^ 



Hijor'rcal, after •various Maflers. — " Chrift on the Crofs'," 

 with St. John and the holy women at the foot, afttr Jor- 

 dacns ; " Argus lulled to deep," with Mercury prepariiii^ 

 to behead him ; " The Infant Jupiter," with a iiyicph, 

 milking the goat Amalthea, accompanied by a fatyr playing 

 the tambourine, both in large folio. The two latter are 

 the fincit of Bollwert's engravings after Jac. Jiirdacns. A 

 family concert, infcribed "SooD'Oude fongen, Soo pipen de 

 Jongen." " Pan holding, a Badcet of Fruit, accompanied by 

 Ceres crowned with Wheat, and a Figure blowing the Horn," 

 both in folio, and from .Tordacns. Impreffions of the latter arc- 

 become very r.ire ; " The holy Salutation," after Gerard 

 Seghers. "The Returnfrom Egypt," v.'heretlie Infant Chriit 

 appears walking between St. .lofeph and the Virgin ; " The 

 Virgin appearing to St. Ignatius of Loyola ;" " St. Francis 

 Xavier tempted by Satan, and comforted Iiy the Apparition 

 of the Virgin and Child ;" " The Denial of St. Peter," m an 

 afiemblageof foldiers, playing at cards ; and its companion, 

 " The Smokers," two very capital prints in large folio, after 

 G. Seghers ; " A Concert," after Theodore Rombout, 

 being the companion to one of the fame fubjcft engraved by 

 Vorllerman, after Coilcr ; " The Virgin and holy Infant," 

 (who holds the globe of the earth,) after Erafmu&Qiiclinus ; 

 " The Communion of St. Rofe," after the fame painter ; 

 " The Body of Chrill on the Lap of the Virgin,"' after 

 Diepenbeck ; . and " The Crucifixion of three Jefuits at 

 Japan," after the fame painter, all of large folio dimen- 

 fions, . 



Hiftoricn], Ij^c. after Rubens. — " The Annunciation," the 

 bed impreffions of which are marked with the nam.e.of Van- 

 den Enden ; " The Return from. Egypt ;" " The E.xecu- 

 tioner giving the Head of St. John the Daptill to Herodias," 

 in folio ; " Chrill crucified between- the two Thieves," in 

 folio; " A Crucifixion," wherein a foldier is piercing the 

 fide of Chrill ; St. John and the Virgin are (landing at the 

 foot of the crofs ; a very beautiful engraving, executed in a 

 bcld.llyle, in large folio ; " A Crucifixion," with the city of 

 Jerufalem in the back-ground ; and another engraving of the 

 fame fubjeft, both in large folio ; " The Body of Chrill on the 

 Lap of the Virgin, with St. Franci8,"in large folio ; " The 

 Refurr^ftion," and " The Afcenfion of Chnll," two large 

 folio plates; "The Trinity," where ChrilUs reprefented dead, 

 a fore-fhortened figure fupported by the Deity ; " The four 

 Evangelills," in large folio ; "The Triumph of theChurch," 

 a large folio plate nearly fquare ; " The Deftrurtion of 

 Idolatry," a Wge print lengthways,, on two plates ; " The 

 Fathers of the Church, furrounding St. Clare, with the Sa- 

 craments," a large folio plate nearly fquare ; " The im.ma- 

 culate -Conception of the Virgin,'' a circular print in large ■ 

 folio ; another " Affumption of the Virgin," where a dif- 

 ciple raifes a flone at the mouth of the fepukhre ; " The 

 Virgin embraced by the Infant Chrift,"' " The Infant Chrill 

 on a Table careffing his Mother ;'' " The Virgin, with the 

 holy Infant on her Lap, holding a Globe and Sceptre ;'* 

 "The. Holy Family," where the infants Chrill and John 

 are playirg with a Jamb ; and four other engravings of the 

 fame fubjeil, in large folio ; *' St. Francis Xavier ftanding 

 before a Crucifix," in folio ; and its companion " St. -Igna- 

 tins of Loyola," before the name of Jefus, furrounded 

 with rays of glory ; " St. Cecilia playing on the Organ," 

 a diftinguilhed plate, thefirft imprcfBons of which are infcribed 

 G. Hendrix. Thofe where the name cf Witdoeck is fubfti- 

 tutcd for that of Bolfwert are retouched, aad of very. infe. . 



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