DAN 
of the indentures being the only thing that diflinguifhes it 
from indented, 
There is alfo a bearing of a bend, called double dancetté ; 
thus, he beareth azure, a bend double dancetté argen 
ANCHE’, or rable fame with Genes or, as 
others will have it, with dan 
DANCHET, pian in " Biography, a French poet, 
and man of letters, was born at Riomin 1671. His parents 
were of low rank, but by the exertions of his friends he was 
enabled to acquire a good education, and: was at length ad 
mitted ftudent in the college of Louis le Grand at time 
of taking Mons and Nice. He wrote a Latin upon 
thefe vittories, which was printed while he was hill a a colle. 
ia afterwards chofen rhetorical profeffor in the 
colle e of Chartres, which poft he occupied four years. In 
after-life he applied himfelf chiefly to poetry, and the belles 
lettres, was oe a member of the French academies, and 
hada p im inthe royallibrary. He died in 1748. 
He had no ee to be ranked in the firft clafs of literary 
excellence, but his works cbtained for him a confiderable 
fhare of id a peniea ; el were colleGted and publifhed in 
1751 in four volum e was highly efteem- 
ed for the qualities - hie aud and the algae of tem 
sa he was fincere, upright, and difinterefted, and 
nemy to every fpecies of fatire and calumny, weapon too 
fegucarly ufed by poets.and menof genius. Moreri 
DANCKE RT. or Dancers, Corne ius, a deg 
er, born at Amfterdam in re61. T 
probably of thi 
family, of which Cornelius may be confidered the head. 
eftablifhed himfelf at Antwerp as a print-feller ; but he. did 
not fuffer this employment to engrofs his whole time, as he 
engraved many portraits, landfcapes, and hittorical pieces, 
as weil from his own compofitions as from the defigns of 
Berghem, Rembrandt, and others. We all only mention 
the following: Guttavus Adolphu s, king of Sweden, 
large plate ; Cornelius de ne ina battle, ditto ; John Cal- 
ollowing are from his own 
archies, Ninus, Cyru 
rt) 
r n v 
v a plates, folio; the feven 
7 plates, folio ; the principal Subjeéts - the Old dene 
130 {mall prints, i on each plate ; a fet of Views in Holland dq; 
6 a es. Hube 
Dinckrars, Dawcnees, the fon of Cornelius, was 
born at Antwerp, about the year 1600. He alfo engraved 
dferent indjects, as well from his own defigns as from thofe 
of other artifts; and though his pieces are not fo numerous 
as his father’s, t Danckert com- 
a which he 
has wrought in this manner, are much efteem We fhail 
his engravings: the Portrait of Charles 
ing and Stag-huncing, a pair, ieee erghem 
Danckert Danckerts, fee. ef EXC. 3 four large Landfcapes, a 
Bergh: m, lengthways ; another fet of four, of a {maller 
from the fame es ; another fet of fix, ftill {maller, fon 
the fame. [Tube 
DANCKERTS, on a defigner and engraver, who, about 
the year 1654, fettled at Amferdam; but being invited 
into England, he went to London, where he defigned for 
nghth Juvenal, the ines engraved by Hollar. This 
artift alto engraved fome plates. We fhall cnly mention 
the following :. Venus lying upon a Couch, from Titian, 
DAN 
163%. 3 
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Joh. Danckerts, re. aq. forti 1 jo ceaite fhipping 
their Goods, hae Danckerts se. 
Dancxerrs, Henry, pies o ae above, was alfo 
bred an engraver, but afterwards became a landfeape- speiee 
2 was born at the Hague, but at an early age travelied 
e 
of James II. (V y e anachroni{m, fays, 
in the time of the popifb plet), i quitted England for Am- 
flerdam, where he died {oon after. The landfcapes painted 
by this artift were numerous, and are chiefly to be found 
in Englan mongft them are Views of Windfor, Ply- 
mouth, Pen ce, &c. marked ankers, F. 1678, 1679. 
He alfo engraved from Vandyk, Titian, Jacopo Palma, 
ke. ae Huber 
Da ANCKERTS, JUsSTUS. . artift was of a fame 
i ormer. He was a defigner r, engray ‘, and 
a a Yellen and refided in Aalto, e following plate 
~bear his name: the Portrait of Cafimir, king of Poland 
ene of William ITT., prince of Ae nets 
— mm, a fet of 7 
cxerTs DE Ry e circumftance 
of both Milizia and Heinecken dating the birth of this ar. 
rane in ae and faying that he-was born in Amfter- 
dam (the very time and place of the birth of Cornelius 
Danckerts aoe above), leads us to fufpe& fome chro- 
nological error, if not, indeed, that thefe two artiits were 
one and the fame perfon. ornelius was originally a ftone- 
mafon, but afterwards applied himfelf to architeture. He 
conftru&ted in the cit i 
the Ee home of 
the principal Sean 
leads to Haarlem, 
Cornelius had a fon named Peter, w! 8 m- 
fterdam in 1605, and afterwards became painter to Uladif- 
laus, king of Poland. Milizia, Mem. degli Architetti, 
DANCORITON, in Ancient Geography, a town of Illy- 
ria, in Liburnia, fappofed ° be the fame bat is called by 
ee and Ptolemy Corini 
DANCRETA, in Bian, aname given by the people of 
Guinea, to a plant which they ufe in diforders of the head, 
oiling it in water, and ufing t 
i=” 
1°) 
Cafpar Bauhine, i in an Prodronn. deferibes a ee 
weed growin in Egypt, which e y ag with this 
all particulars, except that it is finely ferr aa ‘all round the 
ay es the leaves. Phil. Tranf. N° 
NDA, in Geography, a river of Africa a, which fepa. 
a ae ngo Proper from the kingdom of Ango It isa 
easel river, and navigable quite up to nee town of 
that is, about 30 leagues and upwards. This river 
a ts name to the province through which it paffes, and 
the countries ‘of which it fertitizes ; but without caufing fuch 
deltru@tive inundations as the Zair. Its navigation, thoug 
not difficult or a salar is {ubjeGt, however, to the inte 
ruption and moleftation 
lefs confiderable ftreams. iver, and alio the Bengo 
and Lucale, are fuppofed to ae froma lake among the 
high 
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