LOW COUNTRIES, ENGRAVERS OF THE. 



companion to the former print ;) " Jefus Chrift prefented 

 to the People by the High Priell ;" and its companion, 

 " The Crucifixion of our Saviour," all of large folio fizc ; 

 (there are many impreflions of this enj;raving, with various 

 alterations:) "The Entombing of Chrill," in quarto; 

 " Chrift with his two Difciples at Emmaus," in folio ; en- 

 graved with broader ftrokes than is common in his prints ; 

 " The Good Samaritan arriving at the Inn with the 

 wounded Man ;" a very fine engraving, in folio , " Saints 

 Peter and John healing the paralytic Man ;" " St. Phihp 



Beggars. — A beggar in rags, leaning on a flick ; ther 

 profile of a beggar, in the ftyle of thofe of Callot ; another 

 in the fame ilyle ; an old beggar woman foliciting charity. 

 Lazarus K!ap, a dumb beggar, fcated on the ground, with 

 his flick between his legs, in 8vo. : this is engraved in a 

 broad ftyle, and is very rare ; a beggar feated on the 

 ground, covered with rags, in his countenance is pidlured 

 extreme mifery ; beggars at the door of a houfe receiving 

 charity : the group is compofed of an old man, a young 

 woman with an infant at her back, and another child, in 4to. 

 This print is the moil interefting, and the befl executed of 



baptifing the Eunuch of Queen Candace ;" and " The 



Death of the Virgin," a very fine forcible engraving, both the whole fet 

 of folio fize. Various Figures, aciulemical, l^c. — A young man and 



Pious Subjeds. — " St. Stephen ftoned ;" " St. Jerome," female in bed, furrounded with curtains, very rare ; a 



engraved when Rembra»dt was in his meridian; "St. fliepherdefs feated at the foot of a rock, making a garland 



Jerome at rk'votion," all in o£l.avo ;" St. Jerome writing," of flowers, and a young fliepherd lying near her, playing the 



with fpeftacles on, in quarto ; " St. Jerome," an unfiiiiftied flute, in 4to., a very rare engraving ; "The Draughtfman,'' 



plate, the compofition of which is rich, and the finiflied 

 part admirable ; " St. Francis at Devotion :" great part of 

 this plate is unfiniftied, and the prints are very rare. 



Hifiorical and Allegorical Suhjetls. — " The Hour of 

 Death," an allegory on the vanities of the world ; " Youth 

 furprifed by the Arrival of Death," reprefented by a young 



reprelenting a man drawing from a caft of a female, fur- 

 rounded with other models : this print in Holland is known 

 by the name of " The Statue of Pygmalion ;" and if it had 

 been finiftaed as well as it was begun, would have bten very 

 fine, in folio ; " The Bath," reprefenting figures bathing, 

 in 4to. ; "The Woman and the frying Pan," in folio; 



manjand girljwalking together, and a figure of death ftarting " Venus at the Bath." It has been remarked, that Rem- 



"'^ ■"'■ brandt was not very liappy in drawing naked figures ; but 

 here he has given his Venus the charaftcr of a goddefs, in 

 large 410. 



Land/capes. — A fmall landfcape, engraved with great 

 freedom, of trees and a houfe ; " The Bridge of Six," with 



on them ; " Medea, or the Marriage of Jafon and Creufa," 

 reprefenting the interior of a temple and the ftatue of Juno, 

 a very careful engraving, in folio ; " The Star of the 

 Kings," a ceremony ufed in Holland on certain nights, 

 during which a lanthorn is fattened to the end of a long 



ftick. The print is in quarto, and has a ftriking effedl of figures on it, in folio ; a view of Amfterdam, a very good 



night. A pair of " Lion Hunting." A chace of Hons, in 

 one of which a Turk is combating a lion, and another 

 hunter is overthrown ; " The Wandering Muficians," com- 

 monly called " The Blind ;" it reprefents an old man and 

 boy playing the bagpipes. " The little Spanifli Gipfey," 

 reprefentin,x an old woman in a wood, converfing with a 

 young perfon of diftinftion ; " The Rat-Catcher," repre- 

 fenting an old man with a ftick, accompanied by a boy with 

 rats in a trap, all in quarto ; " The little Goldfmith," 

 a man occupied in forming a fmall figure of Charity, in 

 izmo. with a very fine tone ; " The Pancake Maker," an 

 old woman frying pancakes, furrounded with children, one 

 of whom is crying at a dog, in oft avo, engraved in a very 

 delicate ftyle ; " The Jew's Synagogue," reprefenting two 

 doftors of the law converfing ; in the back-ground is a fy- 



engravmg ; a landfcape, with a village and fpire, on the 

 fore-ground of which is introduced a hunter with two 

 hounds, very rare, in folio ; a very rich and celebrated land- 

 fcape, known by the name of " The three Trees," with 

 the eff^eft of rain, in foho ; a very highly finiflied landfcape, 

 into which is introduced a girl with pails, and a dog ; a 

 landfcape, with wood, water, and buildings ; thi? engraving 

 is very rare and Angular, being wafhed with Indian ink, 

 which gives it the appearance of a drawing. A pair of land- 

 fcapes, one with a coach in it, with a view of a city and 

 two windmills ; the other is a mountain fcene, with wood 

 and water, in 410., in the form of friezes, both waflied with 

 Indian ink ; a landfcape, arched at the top, of a village, 

 with peafants before a cottage in the fore-ground : it has a 

 very grand cffeft. Another; village fcene, arched at the top, 



nagogue. " The Nail Cutter," a young woman feated, and with a fquare tower introduced, and two fmall figures feated 



an old woman on the ground cutting her toe-nails, a very on the ground; a landfcape, with two cottages, and animals 



rare print ; " The Schoolmafler," in oftavo ; " The Quack feeding on a meadow ; on the fore-ground a figure is intro- 



Do6tor," taking drugs from a baflcet, in i2mo., a very duced drawing: this engraving is known by the name of 



fparkling engraving; "The Peafant, with his Wife and " The Landfcape Painter." A landfcape, executed with the 



Child," an unfiniftied print ; "The Jew with the Large dry .point, called " The Clufter of Trees," among which 



Hat," leaning on a ftick, engraved in a free, but decifive is introduced a foldier's hut ; a landfcape, arched at the 



manner ; " The Onion Woman," reprefenting a miferable top, known by the name of " The Hay Stack," towards 



old woman, with her feet on a chaffing-difti, anxibus to fell the right is a village and wood, and a flock of fheep guided 



a rope of oniors, all in oftavo ; " The Attrologer," an old by a fliepherd, all in 410. ; a large landfcape of an oblong 



man in a profound (leep, fitting at a table with a candle, a 

 globe, and books : in his right-hand he holds a pen, and his 

 fpetfacles in the other ; a quarto plate, with a very fine 

 effeft. " The Philofopher" in his apartment, contemplating 

 a globe by candle light, has a very brilliant effeft, in i znio. ; 

 " A Man meditating," feated at a table, above which a 

 lamp is fixed againft thj wall, which throws a glimmering 

 light on all arouni' in quarto ; " The Perfian," a man in a 

 hat and feathers, '..itii d cloak on, in oftavo, engraved in a 

 very delicate ftyle ; " The Skaiter," a man fl<aiting with a 

 bundle acrofs his fhoulder, in oiSavo, a very free, delicate 

 engraving, rare. 



form, reprefenting a cottage wirh a Itream running before 

 it, over which is a wooden bridge, and a country girl 

 crofllng it : in the back-ground is a town, and a river, which 

 winds to the fore-ground, where a man is introduced 

 angling, with a child befide him ; its companion is 1 land- 

 fcape of the fame fize and form, of a canal and .i ""''ge tree, 

 by the fide of which a cottage is reprefented with two chiK 

 dren at the door : in the back-ground is a village and a 

 windmill. " The Obelilli," a very well finiflied landfcape, 

 of a circular form, of an obclifk and a village, wiili water, 

 in 4to. ; " The Windmill, or Birth-place of Rembrandt," 

 with his father's houfe ; a view of the champaign of the rt> 



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