A - CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, WHO HAVE BEEN BORN, OR RESIDED IN ENGLAND; DIGESTED BY HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF O R F O R D, FROM THE MSS. OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE5 TO WHICH IS. ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE A::D WORKS OF THE LATTER. AND ART REFLECTED IMAGES TO ART. — Pope. PRINTED BY J. MOORE, DRURY-LANE, FOR J. CAULFIELD, T. CORAM, AND G. BARRETT, M.DCC.XGIV, CATALOGUE O F ENGRAVERS. T TT THEN the monarchs of Egypt erected those stu- ^ ' pendous masses, the pyramids, for no other use than to record their names, they little suspected that a weed growing by the Nile would one day be converted into more durable registers of fame, than quarries of marble and granite. Yet, when paper had been in- vented, what ages rolled away before it was destined to its best service I It is equally amusing to observe what obvious arts escape our touch, and how quickly various channels are deduced from a source when once opened. This was the case of the press : Printing was not dis- covered till about the year 1430 ; in thirty yeai-s more 'it was applied to the multiplication of drawings. Au- thors had scarce seen that facility of dispersing their A 2 works, 4 CATALOGUE OF EN'GRAVERS. works, before painters received an almost equal * ad- vantage. To e^^h was endless fame in a manner ensured, if" they had merit to challenge it. With regard to prints, the new discovery associated the professors, in some degree, yv'ith. the great masters whose works they copied> This intimate connection, between painters and engravers, makes some account of the latter a kind of necessary supplement to the history of the former. But if this country has not produced many men of ge- nius, in the nobler branch, it has been still more defi- cient in excellent engravers. Mr. Vertue had been alike industrious in hunting, after monuments of the latter profession ; he was of it himself; but, as the ar- tists were less illustrious, his labour was by far more unsuccessful. 'Till the arrrival of Hollar, the art of engraving was, in England, almost confined to por- traits. Vertue thought what was produced here, be- fore the reign of king James, of so little consequence, that in a sketch which he had made for a begining, he professedly dates his accoiini from the year 1600. If I take it up earlier, it is merely to give a complete history, which will be comprehended in few lines, and the materials for which I have chiefly gathered from * Wamt of colouring is tlie capital deficience of prints; yet even this seems attainable. Monsieur le Blon, who will be mentioned here- after, invented coloured prints, and did enough to shew the feasibility. His discovery was neglected, as the revival of encaustic painting has been lately; though the advantages of each art are so obvious, and so desirable, hifi CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 5 his papers, and from the Typographical Antiquities of Mr. *Ames. Mpv. Evelin says +the art of engraving, and work- ing off from :|:plates of copper, did not appear 'till about the year 1490. That is, it was not brought to perfection from the hints gathei^ed from typography ; yet it is certain that in 1460 Maso Finiguerra, a gold- smith of Florence, by an accident that might have given birth to the rolling-press, without the antecedent dis- * Joseph Ames, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaiians, was ori- ginally a ship-chandler in Wapping. Late in his life he took to the study of antiquities; and, besides his quarto volume, containing ac- counts of our earliest printers, and their works, he published a list, in duodecimo, of English heads, engraved and mezzotinto, and drew up the Parentalia from Mr. Wren's papers. He died in 1759. His library and prints were sold by auction, in the following year. ■f ScuLPTURA p. 35. X I HAVE said, and for two reasons, shall say little of wooden cuts ; |hat art never was executed in any perfection in England. Engraving on metal was a signal improvement of the art, and supplied the defects of cuttings in wood. The ancient wooden cuts were certainly carried to a great heighth, but that was the merit of the masters, not of the method. Whoever desires to know more of cutting in wood should consult a very laborious work, lately published in France, in two vols, octavo, called Traite historique & pratique de la graveure en bois, par Papillon, Paris 1766. The author will not probably, as he wishes, persuade the world to return to wooden cuts ; but he gives examples of vignettes to books in that manner, which ought to make editors ashamed of the slovenly stamps that are now used for the fairest editions. There js a curious account of missals, &c. adorned with wooden cuts, in Mr. Gough s Brit, Topogr. 2d. edit, iii the articles of Wiltshire, fr^m p, 319, to p. 362, vol. ki. . • covery 6 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. covery of printing, did actually light upon the method ot taking off stamps from an engraved plate. Casting a piece of such plate into melted brimstone, he ob- served that the exact impression of the engraving was left upon the surface of the cold brimstone, marked by lines of black. He repeated the experiment on mois- tened paper, rolling it gently with a roller. It suc- ceeded. He commnnicated the discovery to Baccio Baldini, of his own profession and city. The latter pursued the invention with success, and engraved se- veral plates from drawings of Sandro Boticello, which being sent by Andrea Mantegna, he not only assisted j Baldini with designs, but cultivated the new art himself. It had not long been in vogue before Hugo da Carpi tried the same experiment with wood, and even added a variety of tints, by using different stamps for the gra- dations of lights and shades ; a method revived here some years ago, with much success, by Mr. Kil'kall ; and fince iit V enice, by Jackson ; though very imperfectly. From Italy engraving soon travelled into Flanders; where it was first practised by one Martin, of Antwerp, He was followed by Albert Durer, who carried the art to a great height, considering how bad the taste was of the age and country in which he lived. His fidelity to what he saw was, at once, his fame and misfortune; he was happy in copying nature, but it was nature dis- guised, and hid under ungraceful forms. With neither choice of subjects or beauty, his industry gare merit even to ugliness and absurdity. Confining his labours almost CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 7 almost wholly to religious and legendary histories, he turned the Tes'ament snto the history of a Flemish village ; the habits of" Herod, Pilate, Joseph, &c. their dwellings, their utensils and iheir customs, were all Gothic and European ; his virgin Mary was the he- roine of a Kermis. Lucas of Leyden imitated him in all his faults, and was still more burlesque in his repre- sentations. It was not till Raphael had formed Marc Anthony, that engraving placed itself with dignity by the side of painting. When the art reached England does not appear. It is a notorious blunder in Chambers*, to say that it was first brought from Antwerp, by Speed, in the reign of James I. In some degree we had it almost as soon as printing ; the printers themselves usin^ small plates for their devices and rebuses. Caxton's Golden f Legend has, in the beginning, a groupe of saints, and many other cuts, dispersed through the body of the work. It was printed in 1483. The se- cond edition of his game at Chess had cuts too. So has his Le Morte Arthur. Wynkin de Worde, Cax- ton's successor, prefixed to his edition of the Statutes, in the sixth year of Henry VII. a plate, with the king's arms, crests, &c. a copy of which is given in the life of Wynkyn, by Mr. Ames, in his Typogra- •Dictionary. Edit, of 1728. Art of Priming, + Ams , p, 35, phical s CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. phical Antiquities, p. 79. The same printer exhibited several books, adorned with cuts ; some ol which are particularly described by his Biographer, in pages 87, 88, 89, & sequentibus. The subsequent printers continued to ornament their books with wooden cuts One considerable work, published by John Rastell, was distinguished by prints of uncommon merit for that age. It was called, The Pastyme of the People ; and by bishop Nicholson, in his Historical Library, Rasiell's Chronicle. This scarce book, of a very large size, I saw at the auction of Mr. Ames's library ; it had many cuts, eighteen of which were in great folio, representing the kings of England ; so well designed, and boldly executed, as to be attri- buted to Holbein ; though I think they were not of his hand. I shall mention but one more book, with wooden cuts, though several are recorded by Ames. It is Grafton's Chronicle,* printed in 1569, and con- taining many heads, as of William the Conqueror, Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth, Sec. Yet, though even portraits were used in books, I find no trace of single prints being wrought off in that age. Those which I have mentioned in a t former volume, as com- posing part of the collection of Henry VIII. were probably the productions of foreign artists. The first * Auts, p. 204. t. ANxcaoTxt of Painting, vol. it p< 97. book CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 9 book that appeared, "with cuts from copper plates, at least the first that so industrious an enquirer as Mr. Ames* had observed, was, " The Birth of Manlyind, otherwyse called, The Woman's Book," dedicaied to queen Catherine, and published by Thomas Ravnalde, in 1540, with many small copper cuts, but to these no name was affixed. The earliest engraver that occurs, was THOMAS GEMINUS, or GEMINIE, ") As he calls himself in a title-page which I ) shall mention presently. The little that is known of him is collected from his works. Of these was TuoMiE Gemini Lysiensis compendiosa totiua Anatomes delineatio, a3;re exarara, folio 1545. " These plates, says Amesjt are sortie of the first rowling-prcss printing in England." This was a new edition of Ve- salius's Anatomy, which was first published at Padua, ^" *<542j with large wooden cuts, which cuts Geminus imitated on copper-plates ; though, says Vertuc, <' I ♦ P. 2ig. i Ames, p. stS. B qnestion 10 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. question whether more than the title-page, to which he has put his name, was the work af Geminus ; the most and best part of the graved figures were pro- bably copied, from the wooden cuts in VesaHus, by a better hand." The first edition was dedicated to Henry VIII. Geminus afterwards pubHshed a trans- lation by Nicholas Udal, of the same work, in 1552, and dedicated it to Edward VI. The translator, in his preface, says, " Accepte therefore, jentill reader, this IVactise of Anatomie, thankfully interpreting the la- bours ot Thomas Gemini, the workman. He, that ^vith his great charge, watch and travayle, hath set out these figures in pourtrature, will most willingly be amended, or better perfected of his own workmanship, if admonished." Vertue, having quoted this passage, owns, that the writing to all these plates was surely en- graved by Getninie, and probably some parts or mem- bers of the bodies. We do not contend for the ex- cellence ot Geminie's performances. It is sufficient that we have ascertained so early an engraver in Eng- land. Vertue adds, that Geminie published another small work, with copper cuts, relating to midwifry, two years before. I do not know whether he means two years before the first, or the second, ol his edi- tions of Vesalius. It is certain that Ames does not specify such a work, though in page 3^4, he acknow- ledges that there are books printed by Geminie, of an earlier date than any he had seen ; for Geminie was not only an engraver, but a printer ; and dwelled in Black- CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. n Blackfriars. Thence he puhlished a Prognostication, &c. relating to the weather, the Phacnomena of the Heavens, &c. with a number ot cuts. Imprinted by Thomas Geminie, quarto, and another edition of his Anatomy,, in 1559= dedicated to queen Elizabeth. So congenial an art as engraving, when once disco- vered, could not fail to spread in an age of literature. That accomplished prelate, archbishop Parker, who thought that whatever tended to enlighten and cultivate the human mind, was within his province, seerns to have been the most conspicuous patron ot the arts in the reign of Elizabeth. I have mentioned before * o that he employed, in his palace at Lambeth, a painter, {ind two or three engravers. Of these t the chief was • REMIGIUS HOGENBERGH, Of whom I can give the reader no farther inform, ation, than what he has received already, that Kogen- bergh twice engraved the archbishop's head, which Vertue thought was the first portrait engraved in Eng- * Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 278. + Another was Richard Lyne, of whonj see an account in Mr. Cough's Brit. Topogr, ad, edit. voj. i. p. 2081 B 2 land ; CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 1« land; and a genealogy of the kings of England. Remi- gius had a brother, who either was in England or work- ed for Englishmen, his name FRANCIS HOGENBERGH; y By his hand is extant a print of queen ^ Mary I. dated 1355 ; if this was executed in lier reign, it was antecedent to that of Parker : but it might not be done here, or might be performed after her death, and allude only to her sra. Under it is written, Veritas Temporis Filia. In the set of Sax- ton's maps he engraved those of Gaul and Belgium. Of his works abroad Virtue had seen views in * Bruin's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, printed at Cologn in 1572, in conjunction with Simon Novellani and George * This expensive work, consists of two very large and thick folios; the first containing 178 plans and views of towns, the second 135. They are drawn and engraved by Francis and Abraham Hogcnbcrgh, Hoefiiagle, and others, particularly Henry Stenwick : the author stiles himself both Bruin and Braun. It is a work of uncommon labour, but without method, and some of the cities are repeated. In this collection is the curious print of Nonsuch ; and in the last plate but two of the first volume is a vie^y of the lake Averno ; Qrtelius and G. Hoefnagle are standing by the lake, and from seeing birds swimming on it, hunc locum non esse Aornon advcrtcntes. Hoefnagle ; CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 19 Hoefnagle; and others in Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in which he was assisted by Ferdinand and Ambrose Arsen, Antwerpis 1570. The map of England, in this collection, was the work of Humphry Lhuyd of Denbighshire, as that of Spain was of Tho- mas Geminus, whom I have already mentioned. En- graving was on no contemptible foot, in England, when we had professors* worthy of being employed to adorn Flemish editions ; Flanders was at that time a jsapital theatre of arts and learning. Dr. WILLIAM CUNYNGHAM, ) A PHYSICIAN of Norwich, was also an au- *'^'^^) thor and engraver. In his Cosmographical Glass, a fine copy of which is described by Ames,+ are many cuts, and a large map of Norwich, some of the plates engraved by the doctor's own hand. It was printed in folio, in 1559, and dedicated to the lord Robert Dudley, afterwards the well known earl of Leicester. • OftTELius himself commends the English engraveis, and besides those I have specified, he names Antony Jcnkenson, who flourished ia 1562, and Robert Leeth, a man skilful in taking the plot of a country. See Ames, p. 540, + Ibid. p. 237. RALPH QATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. RALPH AGGAS 7 Was a surveyor, and related to Edward 3 Aggas, a printer.* Ralph published what I should have concluded a book, as he called it Cele- berrimas Oxoriiensis Academia?, &c. elegans simul & accurata descriptio ; but Ames, who is not very ex- plicit, seems to speak of it as a map, saying it was three feet by four ; and, he adds, that Cambridge was done about the same time ; that is, in Aggas made a map of Dunwich, in 1589, which I have men- tioned,f and a large plan and view of London, which was re-engraved by Vertuc, and of which, in one of his MSS. he gives the following account ; " A PLAN and view of London, with the river Thames and adjacent parts, being the most ancient prospect in print. This was reported to have been done in Henry VHL or king Edward Vlth's time; but, from several circumstances, it appears to be donq early in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, about 1560, being cut in several blocks of wood. The prints thereof being now of the grcatt;st scarcity, no copies perhaps preserved, being put up against walls in houses, therefore in length of time all decayed or lost. Civilas * Ames, p. 389. + Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p, 267. Londinum. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 15 Londinum, Probably this was published by Ralph Aggas, as he himself mentions in that plan of Oxford, done after this was begun. But it must be observed, that this very impression is a second publication, with the date j6i8, and that there are several aherations from the first in this ; and particularly, instead of the arms as queen Elizabeth bore them, those of king James I. (England, France and Scotland; are put in the place of them. And, in the first, have been explana»- tions of the remarkable places in the city and suburbs; as may be observed, in many places, by letters of re- ference. The length of this printed plan six feet three inches, by two feet four inches, contained in six sheets and two half sheets; I believe the full extent in length, but I apprehend the notes of explanation were, at bot- tom, prif ted on slips of paper, to be added." Vertue then specifies buildings^ or absence of buildings, which affix this plan to the aera in which he concludes it primed originally ; as the waier-gate, at the palace of Westminster, called the Queen's -bridge; Noithumber- land-house wan'ii-g, wliich was not erected in i^6o» but was before 1618. Paget-place, so called in 1563, &c. Vertue had t^ken much pains to ascertain the an- cient extent of London, and the scite of it's several Jaiger edifices, at various periods. Among his papers I find many traces relating to this matter. Such a sub- ject, extended by historic illustrations, would be very amusing. Les Anecdotes des rUes de Paris, is a pattern for a work of that kind ; but not the last edition ; for the 16 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. the author, conducted by the clue of his materials into the ancient histories of France and England, grew so interested in those obsolete quarrels, that he tacked, to an antiquarian discussion, a ridiculous invective, against the English, and their historians. Alter authenticating whatever has passed of memorable, in each street oi Paris, he labours to overturn all that happened at Poicters and Cressy. Historian of gnats, he quarrels with camels* HUiMPHRY COLE, 7 A Goldsmith, and probably brother of Pe. ' 3 ter Cole, a painter mentioned by Meres, in his Wit's Commonwealth, and in the first volume of these anecdotes;* I conclude so, as Humphry engraved a map to a folio bible, which he set forth in 1572 ; and a frontispiece, v.'ith queen Elizabeth, the carl of Leicester as Joshua, and lord Burleigh as David. Llumphry Cole, as he says himself, + was born in the North of England, and pertayned to the Mint, in the Tower\ IJ72. I sup- pose he was one of the engravers that pertayned to arch- • P. 270. ♦ Ames, 255. bishop CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 17 bishop Parker, for this edition was called Matthew Par- ker's Bible. I hope the flattery to the favourites was the incense of the engraver ! JOHN BETIES. Brother of Thomas Bettes, the painier,* was him- self both painter and engraver. Meres, in the passage above quoted, is my authority for the first ; Fox, in his Ecclesiastical History, tells us the second ; naming John Bettes, as the performer of a pedigree, and some vi- neats (vignettes) for Hall's Chronicle; and speaking of Bettes, in 1576, as then dead, tin the same place is mentioned one Tyrral, of whom I find no other ac- count ; nor of Cure, recorded by Meies ; nor of Chi is- topher Switzer,! but that he used to execute wooden cuts, for books, about the time of archbishop Parker,' C WiLLlAM * See Anecdotes of Painting. + Ames, p. 179. in the note. t In the Harleian Library was a set of wooden cuts^ reprriaiting the broad seals of England, from the conquest to James L inclusive, neatly executed. Vertue says this was the sole impression he had seen, and believed that they were cut by Chr. Switzer, and that these plates wcr? po^td }3y Hollar, for Sandford. Switzer also cut the coins and seals 18 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. WILLIAM ROGERS Is another engraver in Meres's- recapitulation of English artists, he engraved a title page to Linschoten's Vpyages to the East Indies ; and probably the cuts to Hugh Broug'i'on's Consent of Scriptures, which have this mark \^R, and which Vertue says have been reckoned the first graved plates done in England. But this is a mistake; for Broughton's book was not printed till 1600.* He also did heads of queen Elizabeth, of the Earls of Essex and Cumberland, of Sir John Harring- ton, in the title-plate of his Orlando Furioso; o£ John Gerrard, surgeon ; and a frontispiece, with four small heads. One Cure is also mentioned by Meres, as an excellent engraver ; but I find no other account of him, nor ever met with any of his works. Laurence John- son enslaved several heads, in the Turkish history, in folio, 1603. seals in Speed's Hi.slory of Great Britain, 1614, from the originals in the Cottoiiian collection. Speed calls him, the viost exquisite and curious hand of that age. He probably engraved the botanic figures for Lobel's Observations, and the plates for Parkinson's Paradisus Terrestris, 1629, Chr. Switzcr's works have been sometimes confounded with his son's, ■who was of both his names. * V. Ames, 429, CHRIS^ CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 19 CHRISTOPHER SAXTON, ^ To whom we are obri^ed for the first maps of counties, Uved at Tingley near Leeds in York- shire, and was servant to Thomas * Sekeford, esq. master of Requests, and master ot the Court of Wards By the encouragement, and at the expence of this gentleman, Saxton undertook and pubhshcd a compleat set ot the counties of England and Wales ; many of which he en- graved himself, and was assisted in others bv Remigius Hogenbergh, whom I have mentioned, by Nicholas Rey- nold, some foreigner^, and by Augustine R\ ther, t who made some maps of the Spanish invasion, and who kept a shop near Leaden-hall, and procured a translation of Petruccio Ubaldini's Discourse, which he dedicated to the lord admiral Howard, in 1590. The county-maps, dedicated to the queen, and adorned with the ro}al arms, and those of the promoter, Master Sekeford, were published by Saxton, in 1579 ; the d^tes on dif- ferent plates :|: showing, that the labour of six years, that is from 1574, to 1579, included, had been bestowed on them. Saxton is commended by Camden and Thoresby, the latter of whom jj calls his map of * His portrait may be seen in Vertue's print of the Court of Wards. + Ames, p. 541, note. t See the particulars in Ames. Pp. 541, 542. He has also given at length, the patent obtained by Mr. Sekeford. II Dpcat. Leod. p. i65, 195. C 2 Yorkshire 20 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Yorkshire the best that ever was made of that county. This rare map was three feet wide ; at one corner was a view of York, at another of Hull. Augustine Ry~ ther had the chief hand in engraving it. GEORCxE HOEFNAGLE Of Antwerp, was probably in England, mention being made * of a mnp of Bristol by him, and he certainly engraver! a large plate of Nonsuch. He was one (;f the engravers employed by Ortelius. Vertue says ihat Mr, Green showed to the Society of Antiquaries a quarto, containing about fifry copper plates, engraved in 1592, by James Hoefnagle of Frankfort, aged then seventeen, from drawings by his father George, of beasts, birds, flowers, insects, &c.t * Ames, p. 538. + One Cock, a Dutchman, graved an dval portrait of the queen of Scots, in 1559, and from a genuine picture; but it is not clear tliat he pver -yvas in England. THEO. f "catalogue of engravers. THEODORE DE BRIE, !Was, as he informs us in his plates to Boissard's Roman Antiquities, a native of Liege, and a ci- tizen of Francfort. He engraved the plates for the first four volumes of that work, the last of which was completed in 1601 and 1602, after his death, by his sons Theodore and Israel, whom he brought up to his own business. His own head, and Boissard's, he has prefixed to some of the volumes. The first English work that I find with his name was the funeral proces- sion of Sir phllip Sidney, of which I have given an account before,* and which was expressedly engraved in London. The next wast a title-page, with the arms of the lord-keeper Hatton at large, to Wagenar's Mariner's Min our, the second part, published by An- tony Ashley, in 1588. The last does great honour to De Brie ; he cut the curious plates, describing the man- ners and fashions of the Virginians, in the brief and true rf'poit of the Newfoundland of Virginia, published by Thomas Hariot, servant of Sir Walter Raleigh, and employed by him in the discovery. This work * Anecdotes of Painting, •f I FIND this in Veitue's MSS. ^ Hariot was afterwards a dependent of the Earl of Northum- berland, and one of the supposed magi, who kept him company in the Tower. was 22 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. was printed at Francforf, by J. Wecbelius in 1590. The cuts were done at De Erie's own expence, from drawings ot J. White, who was sent thither for that purpose. Picart has copied them in his Rehgious Ce- remonies oi ail Ndtions ; as Speed from drawings of the same person borrowed the frontispiece of his folio edition in 1611.* Theodore, the father^ engraved the plates to the Latin Narrative of the Cruelties ot the Spaniards in America, published in 1598. About the same time appeared De Erie's great work, intituled, Descriptio Indiac Orientalis & Occidentalis, 19 parts, 5 vol. folio. This is done much in the same manner with Hariot's Account of Virginia. Theodore the younger engraved the heads for Boissard!s Collection of eminent persons. ROEERT ADAMS, Besides the plates which I have mentioned in the first volume of this work, drew and engraved represen- tations of the several actions while the Spanish Armada was on the British coasts. These charts were pub- lished by Augustine Ryther 1589. Ames, p. 563. I HAVE CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, 23 I HAVE how cleared my way to the asra from whence Vertue Intended to date his account of our engravers ; that is, from the last years ot Elizabeth. Yet so unable had he been to amass materials sufficient to be moulded into history, that I find only brief notes, till we approach to modern times. The satisfaction therefore that I cannot give to the antiquary, must be a little compensated by assisting collectors. In default of anecdotes, I shall form some, however imperfect, lists of the works performed by the elder masters. These will be chiefly supplied from my own collection, and from * Ames's printed catalogue of English heads, and may be increased hereafter by curious persons, who will be assisted by this sketch, to compile a more ex- tensive and compleat history of the art in England. + REGINALD ELSTRACKE, Whose works are more scarce than valuable flourished under Elizabeth and her successor, in whose reign he probably died. Hisfirst print, according to the date, is the portrait of *As they are fully described there and may be found alphabetically, I shall refer the reader thither for many of those prints of which I give no account, that I may not swell this list unnecessarily. + He generally wrote his name, Renold; , Sir 24 CATALOGUE OF ENCRAVERS; Sir Philip Sidney, done probably soon after his death. Queen Elizabeth, done after her death. The Black Prince in an oval, as are most of the following. Richard Whittington, lord mayor^ and his cat. Gervase Babbington, bishop of Worcester, astat. suas 59, with four Latin verses, and this motto, " Viitus Dei in infirmitate." Sir Julius Caesar, knight, master of the rolls. Henry V. titles in Latin. Sir Thomas More; over his head, Disce mori mundo, vivere disce Deo. Thomas Sutton, founder of the Cliarter-house ; done after his death, 1611, which shows that Elsiracke was then living. Edmund lord Sheffield, president of the North. Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, lord Treasurer of England. Robert earl of Essex. Anne Boleyn. John Harrington, baron of Exton. William Perkins. Lord Darnley and queen Mary, whole lengths on one plate. Padesha Shassallem, the Great Mogul, Philip in. Christian IV. Sigismond Battori. The archdukes Albert and Isabella, two plates. William CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 2S William Knollis, viscount Wallingford. Cardinal Wolsey. . Henry prince of Wales. Antonio de Dominis. Ladislaus king of Poland ; in Fowler's Troubles of Sweden. John Oden Barnevelt, lord of Barkley. Title plate to Basiliologia. Another to Milles's Catalogue of Honour. Time's Storehouse, 1619. Edward IV. king of England, with devices, &c. and are to be sold by Thomas Geele, at the dagger, in Lombard-street. As there is no date to this print, it is uncertain in what year it was done. Vertue, in one of his MSS. says, that Thomas Hinde, in 1337, was the first printseiler in London ; in another place he assigns that rank to George Humble; he no where mentions Geele. It is certain that the name of Georcre Humble is frequently found, on prints of the time of Elizabeth, in conjunction with John Sudbury ; they lived in Pope's-head-alley ; but Hinde and Geele were most probably their predecessors. Toby Matthews, archbishop of York, eight Latin verses, R. E. sculps. He. Holland excudit. arc to be sold by George Humble, in Pope's-head-alley. Mary queen of Scots, Jacobi magnae Britann. regis mater. She is abundantly dressed, and has the crown, sceptre, globe and arms. Sold by Compton Holland, who is sometimes the vender of prints; sometimes D takes 25 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, takes them off, excudlt.* And once, at least, engraved himself. I have a laboured print by him, of Robert earl of Essex, with his arms, crest and titles. The print of Mary is much superior to many of the pre- ceding. Henry Holland, who published the tHeroologia Anglicana, was the eldest son of Philemon Holland, and, I suppose, brother of this Compton Holland. In 1613 he travelled into the Palatinate, with John lord Harrington. Besides the Hcroologia, he pub- lished Monumenta sepulcralia Eccelsias Sti Pauli Lond. quarto ; and a volume containing the lives of the kings of England, from the conquest to the year i6j8. These plates, says Vertue, are the same with those in Martin's Chronicle, except the title page, and the print of William I. * G; HuMBtK W5S also a painter. Among Ames's heads, p, 145. is one of Speed, D. Georgius Humble, p. G. Savery. + The engraver of those prints has not set his name to them. As they are in a more masterly and free stile than cuts done in England, at that time, it is probable that Holland carried over the drawings with him, and had them executed abroad ; and this will be confirmed by 3 circumstance I shall mention in the article of Crispin Pass, FRANCIS CAtAtOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. FRANCIS DELAR AM Worked at the same time with fllstracke, and in the same manner, but better and neater • and seems to have survived him* His plates are^ William SoMERSj king Heneryes jester, (8th.) from Holbein, are to be sold by Thomas Jenner,* at the Whitbeare, in Cornewell. A whole length. Long, tunic, H. K. on his breast a chain, and a horn in his hand. Behind him buildings and boys playing* Eight English verses. * jENNtR attempted the art himself with no bad success. I have a small print, by him, of Sir William Wadd, [or WaadJ lieutenant of the Tower. Sir William was son of Sir Armigel Wadd, of Yorkshircj clerk, of the council to Henry VIIL and Edward VI. and author of a book of Travels. The son was clerk of the council to Elizabeth, wha> dispatched him to Spain, to excuse her sending away their minister Mendoza, who had been dealing in treasons against her. Sir WilliamL behaved with great spirit there, and with as much cleverness afterwards, in piecing together a treasonable paper, torn, and thrown into the sea, by one Chreicton. Wadd v/as successively embassador to the emperor Rodolph, to Henry IV. and to Mary queen of Scots ; inspector of the ♦ Irish forces, of the privy council to king James^ and lieutenant of the Tower, from which post (to his honour) he was removed, in 1613, by Robert Carr, carl of Somerset ; Sir Williani being a man of too much integrity, to be employed in the dark purposes then in agitation. He died at his manor of Battiles Waade, [where he built the mansion still standing] in 1623, aged 77. He married Anne, daughter of Sir John Hyron, His father, Sir Armigel, who lies buried at Hampstead, was the first Englishman that made discoveries in America. See Camden, The English Worthies, Ant, Wood, and Hist, and Antiq. of Essex. D 2 Henry 59 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, Henry VIII. Queen Mary I. in an oval frame. Sir Thomas Gresham, diito, with gloves in his hand, large purse to his girdle. Francisco Delaram sulpsit, are to be sold by Jo. Sudbu. and G. Humble. Queen Elizabeth, after her death, with a long in- scription. Vide Ames, p. 62. James I. Henry prince of Wales, son of James I. in the robes of the garter, with a truncheon. James Montague, bishop of Winchester, 1617, are to be sold by P. Stent. Arthurus Severus O'Toole Nonesuch, aetatis 80, 1618. An old man with a large beard, a sceptre in his hand with eleven crowns upon it. Eight English burlesque verses. Seems to be the efBgies of some adventurer. ' Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland ; almost bald, and with very thick beard. Eight English verses, 1619, are to be sold by G. Humble, in Pope's-head-alley. Another younger, but with a long beard and hat on. Small neat half-length of W. Burton, of Falde, in an oval, with devices, 1622. Sir Hemy Montague, chief justice of the King's- bencb, with six Latin verses, &c. Sir William Segar, garter principal king at arms. John Abbot, bishop of Salisbury, with six Latin verses, Abra. Car. compos. John CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 29 John bishop ot Lincoln, with purse-bearer, mace- bearer, six boy- angels, playing on musical instruments, and sixl Latin verses. A very neat and curious print. Frederick Elector palatine. Elizabeth, his wife. 'Frederick Henry, their eldest son. Charles prince of Wales. John King, bishop of London. Maihias de Lobei, Physician. Sir Horatio Vere ; on either side a soldier compleatly armed at bottom ; trophies, &c. at top. George Withers, the poet, with eight English verses, and this motio, Nec habeo, nec carco, nec euro, 1622, Frances, Duchess of Richmond and Lenox, covered with jewels, a large veil behind. Coustantia coronat. 1623. Frontispiece to Nero Caesar, folio. 1624. This is the latest date to which I find Delaram's name. The four next were a family of artists, and the best per- formers in the laboured finical manner of that age. CRISPIN PASS, .Of Utrecht, was a man of letters, and not only indus^ trious to perfect himself in his art, but fond of pro- moting 30 CATALOGUE Ot ENGRAVERS. moting and encouraging it. This appears particularly* by his being at the expence of setting forth Holland's Heroologia, which is expressly said to be published Irapensis Crispin! Pass, and his not mentioning himself as having any share in engraving the plates, makes me conclude that he recommended the best sculptors among the Flemish. Indeed the prints have merit in themselves^ besides being memorials of so many re- markable personages. Crispin frequented and studied the best masters, and was sent by prince Maurice to teach drawing in an academy at Paris. At what time he came to England is not slear ; none of his works done here are dated, says Vertue, later than 1635, yet he certainly lived some years longer, as in 1643, being probably very old, he published his book at Amster- dam, Delia Luce del dipingere & disegnare, in Italiin, French, high and low Dutch, folio. In the preface he relates these circumstances of his life, " Des ma jeune age je me suis adonne a plusieurs & divers exercises • mais je me suis particulierement attache a estudier avec les plus fameux maistres, le sieur Freminent, peintre de sa majeste tres Chretienne le renomme pientre & architecte sieur Petro Paul Rubens, Abr. Bloemart, Paulo Morelson, pientre et architecte de Utrecht — mais plus particulierement le tres noble seigneur Vander Burg, avec lequel je visitay I'academie, ou etoient ]e$ plus celebres hommes du siecle. L'illustre prince Maurice de heureuse memoire m'envoya a Paris pouf enseigner le deseign a I'academie du sienr Pluvinel, pre- mier CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 31 mler ecuyer du roy." He begins with a little geo- metry, gives directicps tor the proportions of the hu- man body, for figures in perspective, for drawing in the academy by lamp-light, describes the use of the manekin, or layman, for disposing draperies, and goes through the proportions of horses, lions, bears, leopards, elephants, sheep, cats, and other quadrupeds, birds and fishes. His human figures are chiefly taken from Ru- mens, as is but too evident in the corpulency of his women. Some plates are after Lanfranc, and most of the animals from Roland Savery. The first division contains thirty plates ; the second, seven ; and the third, eleven of perspective. Among these are three cuts by his son, Wiliiani, cum privileg. du roy tres Chretien. Bleau published a second edition of this work ; and, to swell the volume, added a great number of old plates, that belonged to other books. Some of the plates have these designations. Robert de Vorst inv. R. de Vorst incidit. R. Vandervorst. Excent the list of his works, I have nothing more to add to Crispin's article, but that Peacham, in his Compleat Gentleman, styles him, " My most honest loving friend." His next work is indeed very beautiful, beino- g large set of plates for a folio, intituled. Instruction du Roy en I'Exercise de mbnter a Cheval, par Mes- sire Antoine de Pluvinel, the person mentioned in the preface to his drawing-book. The work, which is in dialogues^ and foolish enough, is in French and Dutcb^' 32 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Dutch, adorned with many cuts, admirably designed and executed. The young king, Louis XIII. Plu- vinel, the due de Bellegrade, grand ecuyer, and others of the court, appear in every print ; and towards the conclusion are some plates exhibiting tilts at the barriers; in which are given portraits of all the great persons of the court at that time, delivered, though very small, whh great exactitude. This valu- able book is little known, though not very scaixe. Queen Elizabeth, a most sumptuous whole length, with crow^n, sceptre, globe, farthingale, royal arms,' bible and sword on a table, carpet and curtain, and twelve Latin verses. Isaac Olivier effigiebat, Crispin vande Passe incidebat, procurante Joanne VValdnelto. This last circumstance, and the paucity of English Leads, engraved by Crispin, make me doubt whether be ever was in England himself; perhaps drawings were sent to him, as ihey have been of late to Hou- braken, for the illustrious heads. A head of the same queen, oval. Among her titles is that of Yirspinia, o James I. in hat and ruff, oval within a square frame ; lion and grlfon supporting it. Six Latin lines. Crispin de Pass excudit Coloniae. Joannes Meyssens excudit Antwcrpis. As Pass executed this abroad, it is not extraordinary that he should have continued queen Elizabeth's grlfon ; not knowing that James, on his accession, had assumed the Scottish supporter. This print CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. print is well done, though inferior to the preceding whole length. Anne ot Denmark, a curious print ; she is drawn in her hair, young, and with a very broad square sprigged rhfF. Six Latin verses. Crispin de Pass & excudit ColonicB. Henry Prince of Wales. Charles Prince of Wales, in an oval like the two last. Four Latin verses. Ludolca Juliana Comes Nassovise, &c. in a round. Sir Philip Sidney. The earl of Essex on horseback; Thomas Percius, nobilis Anglus, coilspirationis A. MDCV. inita? princeps. C. Van de Pass exc. See a description of this rare plate in Ames, p. 134. There is also a print, in quarto, of the seven conspirators. A collection of 200 emblems for George Wither. A set of cuts for Ovid's Metamorphoses, the title of which is, Pub. Ovidii Nasonis xv. Metamorphoseon librorum figurae elegantissimse a Crispino Passseo laminis acneis incisse, iGoy. Four large and handsome prints of Dives and Lazarus. The first only is executed by the father; the rest are by a younger son, called Crispin likewise, as is the fol- lowinsj, Frederic, elector Palatine, young, oval, size of a large octavo, with martial trophies. Crispin Passseus jun. figu. & sculps. The other children of Crispin Pass were E WILLIAM 34 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. WILLIAM PASS, Who engraved a very rare print, which the earl of Oxford bought with the collection of Sir Simonds Dewes, and of which Vertue gives this account: It was a printed sheet, containing the tamily of James I. and intituled, Triumphus Jacobi regi^ aiigustaeque ipsius prolis. The king sitting on his tlirone with his regalia ; on his right the queen and prince Henry leaning on skulls, to intimate they were dead ; on his left prince Charles with his hand on a book, that laid on a table ; an angel above holding two cro^v'ns. Near prince Charles stand the king and queen of Bohemia, and before them their seven children. At the bottom of the sheet several Latin and English verses. W. G. scripsit. Will. Pass sculpsit. illustris, Jaco. R. Principique Carolo D. D. eorumque licentia & favore excu. Joan. Bill.* In another place Vertue describes a similar print, but does not say where he saw it. The latter is intituled, The Progenie of the renowned prince James king of * This beautiful and curious print (probably the very proof that was lord Oxford's) is now in niy possession : I bought it at the sale of Sir Charles Cotterel's library in 1764, in the London edition of Thuanus, which is also adorned by general Dormer, and Sir Clement Cottere), with several other fine and scarce prints ; particularly one of Henry IV. Mart de' Medici ; their children and nurses ; and the print of the three Colignis, which I have mentioned in the life of Isaac Oliver, Great CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 35 Great Britalne, France and Ireland. The verses in both languages are different from those in the pre- ceding ; to the latter it is said, haec composult Johannes Webster; and the engraver is George* Mountain, To be sold at the Globe over the Exchange. I suppose this plate was copied from that of Pass+. Another print, recorded by Vertue contains in a half sheet the king and queen of Bohemia, and four of their children. Will. Pass fecit ad vivum figurator 1621. About twenty English verses in two columns at bottom. I HAVE a very valuable print of the palatine family on a large sheet, broadways, but without any name of engraver. By the manner I should take it for Sadeler. The king of Bohemia, aged, fat, and melancholy, is sitting with Elizabeth under some trees. One of their sons, in appearance between twenty and thirty, stands by the queen. On the other side are three young children, the least playing with a rabbit. Two grey- hounds, a pigeon, a toad, and several animals are dis- posed about the landscape ; which is rich, and graved with much freedom. The inscription is in French. Of William Pass I find these other works; * I FIND but one other print with his name, and that a poor one; it is of Francis White, dean of Carlisle. + This print, exceedingly inferior to the former, is now in the collection of Sir William Musgrave ; who bought it, with many other »caice portraits, from Thoresby's Museum, in 1764. E 2 Robert CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Robert Earl of Leiceisier, head in oval, good, two Latin verses ^ fe. Frances duchess of Richmond and Lenox, half- length, extremely neat, her arms in a shield ; on a table lies a book with these words, Conftaniia coronat. Over her a flate. Anno 1625 insculpturri a Guilh. Passeo Londinum. This print, which is in my posses- sion, resembles very much a whole length (I believe by Mytens) of the same great lady, which I bought from the collection of the late earl of Pomfret. There is another of her in her*^ weeds with the duke's picture at her + breast at Longleate. But the beft portrait of her is in Wilson's Life of James L The reader would find it well worth his while to turn to it. Sir John Haywood, L. L. D. died 1627, with em<. blems. W. Pass, f". Robert earl of Essex on horseback. George duke of Buckingham, ditto. Christian IV. king of Denmark, and Frederick duke of Holstein, both standing in one print. * Mr; Masters, author of the History of C. C. C. Cambridge, has another of these. + This v;as a fashion at that time. There are three or four ladies drawn so by Cornelius Jansen, at Sherburn-castle, the lord Digby's; of which Elizabeth, countess of Southampton, a half-length richly attired, is one of Jansen's best works. The ruins of the bishop'-s castle, Sir Walter Raleigh's grove, the house built by him and the first earl of Bristol, the siege the castle sustained in the civil war, a grove planted by Mr. Pope, and the noble lake made by the last lord, concur to make that seat one of the most venerable, and beautiful in England, Darcy CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. «7 Darcy Wentworth, astat. 32, 1624. James I. crowned, and sitting with a sword in his right hand, on which, Fidei Defensor, a death's head on his left, on his knee ; before him prince Henry with his left hand on a skull on a table. W. Passgsus f. & sc. anno domini 1621. Another with the same date, hut the king's left hand is on the globe, not on a skull ; and instead of prince Henry, there is prince Charles. This fine print is in my possession. Sir Henry Rich, captain of the guards, ova! frame, W. Pass, sc. MAGDALEN PASS. I FIND little of her work, but a very scarce little head in my own collection, representing the lady Katherine, at that time marchioness, afterwards duchess of Buck- ingham, with a feather fan. It is slightly finished, but very free. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, 1623; Ce- phalus and Procris ; and Laiona changing the Lyciaa peasants into frogs; both afier Elsheimer. SIMON 33 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. SIMON PASS Engravf.d counters of the English royal fami/\-, as I have already mentioned in the life of Hilliard. Vertue says, he staid here about ten years, and then passed into the service of the king of Denmark ; his earliest works in England being dated 1613. Evelyn, in his Sculptura, p. 88, adds, that Libcrum Belgium, by Simon de Pass, dedicated to prince Mau- rice, oi Nassau, is a very rare cut. Other prints by him are, James I, crowned, sitting in a chair ; prefixed .to his works. Ditto, with a hat. Queen Anne, 1617. Ditto, on horseback, with a view of Windsor-castle behind. ' Prince Henry with a lance, whole length. Philip III. king of Spain. Maria of Austria, his daughter, the intended bride of Charles I. Another of her, as sister of Philip IV. much neater. Four Latin verses. Sim. Pass, sc. Crispin de Pass, (I suppose the younger brother) exc. 1622. George Villiers, earl of Buckingham, 1617. Another of him when Marquis, 1620, to the knees, standing by a column in a chamber. Angels and fes- toons of fruit, Charles CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 39 Charles I. young (when prince} in the robes of the garter. Henrv earl of Northampton. I never saw this print. Francis Manners, earl of Rutland. Sir Waller Raleigh, in an oval, arms and devices; Sim. Pass sculps. Comp. Holland exc. Archbishop Abbot, ditto, with a view of Lambeth. Pass and Compton. Another, 1616, Lond. but without Lambeth, and Holland's name. Thomas carl of Arundel (the great collector) oval, arms, Michael Janss. Mirevelt pinx. and Sim. Passzeus sculps. L. Compt. Holl. excu. William earl of Pembroke, ditto, white staff, arms. Pa. V. Somer pinx. 1617. To be sold by Jo. Sudbury and G. Humble. And Philip earl of Monigomery, do. Richard earl of Dorset, ditto, sold in Pope's-head- alley. Frances Howard, countess of Somerset, a curious print oi a curious person. It is a *small oval, the hair very round and curled, like a wig, ruff. S. Pa. sculp. Lon. Comp. Holl. exc. I have a print like\vise of her husband, by the same, and a miniature of him in his latter age by Hoskins. In both, his face is a sharp oval, and his hair fair. Proofs that the prints given of * Ames, p. 162, mentions another very like this, but wiih some few vaiiatiors. him 40 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. him among the illustrious heads, which is a very ro- bust black man, is not genuiiie. William Knollis, viscount Wallingford, in an oval, with a hat li^ke lord Bacon. 1 am not certain by Avhich Pass, I believe by Simon. James Hay, baron of Saley, afterAvards earl of Carlisle; graved by Pass, and sold by Sudbury and Humble. John King, bishop of London, oval, twelve Latin Verses. Nicola Lockey pinx. fieri curavit, and Simon Passacus sculpsit. Lancelot Andrews, bishop of Ely, 1618. Qu. by which Pass ? I have a small neat head, in an oval, of Christina Popping, in a Flemish dress, dedicated to her, in a Latin inscription, and with a French motto, and a verse fiorn Ovid, executed in 1615. By this one should conclude he was not yet arrived. Sir Edward Coke, with six Latin verses. Another of Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Thomas Overbury, Veneno cbiit 1613. Con>p. Holl. exc. Another, smaller. William Butler, physician, good. * Count Gondomar; dedicated to him, and strongly touched. These five last are ovals. * There is another in folio, 1662. aixother CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 41 Another larger, with arms, Cupids, Trophies, &c, very fine. Some of the following I take from Ames. The pages refer to his book. A monumental plate, inscribed by John Bill to his wife Anne, p. 23. Lucy Harrington countess of Bedford, the patroness of Donne, and other wits of that age, p. 28. Edward VI. p. 63. and James I. p. 89. Two more of the latter. Queen Elizabeth, whole length. Lord Chancellor Egerton. Ant. Pluvinel Eques, 1623. James Montagu bishop of Winchester; John Arnd, a German divine. Matoaca, alias Rebecca, filia potentiss. princ. Powka- tavi imp. Virginias, aet. 21, 1616. A woman's head, 1616. Sir Henry Hobart. Sir Edward Cecil, afterwards lord Wimbledon. Digby earl of Bristol. Large head of Christian IV, Captain John Smith, 1617. Title to loid Bacon's works. Andreas Rivetus. Antonius Walaeus. Robert Sidney viscount Lisle, afterwards earl of Leicester, p. 103. Charles earl of Nottingham, lord high admiral, p. 122. Aaron Rathborne, p. 142. F Sir 42 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Sir Thomas Smith, emhassador to Russia, p. 155. Mary Siciney countess of Pembroke, sister of Sir Philip Sidney, for whom he wrote the Arcadia, p. 16 1. She was old when this print was done. Henry Wriothesly earl of Southampton ; the friend of lord Essex, p. 177. Edward Somerset earl of Worcester, p. 181. WilHam Burton physician, 1620. In the French king's library at Paris is a large col- lection of the works of Crispin Pass, and his family, in two or three large volumes. One Emanuel Passe is mentioned in this work (vol. ii.p. 10.) as included in a licence to Cornelius Jansen to go abroad. JOHN PAYNE, Was scholar of Simon Pass, and the first EngHsman that distinguished himself by the graver. Had his ap- plicatio-n been equal to his genius, there is no doubt but he would h^ve shined among the first of his pro- fession ; but he was idle, and though recommended to king Charles, neglected his fortune and fame, and died in indigence before he was forty. There is a thin vo- lume in octavo, called Good-Friday, containing^ medi- tations on that day, and printed in 1648, to which are annexed some poems, under the tiiit of Calanthe, by T. Rawlins. Among them is an epitaph on John Payne, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 4S Payne, then lately deceased. Mr. Evelyn* mentions him with applause; " Yet had we a Payne for his ship, some heads to the life, especially that of Dr. Alabaster, + Sir Benjamin RudyarH, and several other things." [^The ship was"a print of the Royal Sovereign built in 1637 by Phineas Pett. It was engraved on two plates joined, three feet long, two feet two inches high. The head of Dr. Alabaster I have, and it truly deserves en- comium, being executed with great force, and in a more manly style than the works of his master. It was taken from a painting by Cornelius Jansen. He did besides a siorm, some plates for books, and these heads ; Hugh Broughton, oval, 1620, with six Latin verses ; very inferior to the preceding. Alderman Leate, oval, with verses. Roger Bolton, ditto, with four Latin verses, 1632. Sir Edward Coke, chief justice, 1629. Mr. Kobson, the Carrier, with eight English verses. Christian duke of Brunswick, &c. trophies ; four English verses. Robert Devereux (2dJ earl of Essex ; hat and fea- ther; J. P. neat little square print, Henry Vere earl of Oxford, still better. It is a square in the middle of a larger print by W. Pass, in * SCUIPTURA p. 98, i This is one of his best* F 2 which 44 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. which, at top, bottom and sides, are soldiers exercising, or holding banners with mottoes. Carolus Liidovicus Princeps elector ; a mere head, without even the neck. Algernon Percy earl of Northumberland, in the same manner. Elizabeth countess of Huntingdon. Dr. Smith, of St. Clements Danes, M. D. Henry VII, Henry VIII. count Mansfeld ; bishop Hall ; bishop Lake ; bishop Andrews ; Sir James Ley, chief justice ; George Withers, the poet ; Richard Sibbs ; Ferdinand of Austria ; Shakespear ; John Pres- ton; Mr. Arthur Hildersham ; William Whitaker; Francis Hawkins, a boy ; and these particular title- pages : to the Guide to Godliness ; to the works oi John Boys ; to Christian Warfare; to God's Revenge against Murder ; and to La Muse Christienne, du Sieur Adrian de Rocquigny, 1634. JOANNES BARRA, Of what country I know not, appears to have engraved these pieces, Lodowick duke of Richmond and Lenox, 1624. A title-plate, 1624. Another. 163a. a man's CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 4S A man's head, something like a bust, oval ornament; two figures representing painting and literature, 1622. There were many other engravers in the reign ot James I. with whose private story we are so little ac- quainted, that it is impossible to ascertain their several ages and precedence, I shall giv e them promiscuously as they occur. ■ JOHN NORDEN. ^ ) In Mr. Bagford's collection was a view of ' London pubhshed by Norden ni 1603,* at bottom a representation of the lord-mayor's shew, with variety of habits. In the same person's possession Vertue saw another plan of London by T. Porter, in which he observed these particulars: at the upper end of the Hay-market, was a square building called Peccadilla-hall ; at the end of Coventry-street, a gaming- house, afterwards the mansion and garden of the lord keeper Coventry; and where Gerard-street is, was an artillery-ground or military garden made by prince Henry. Norden seems to have been only a topo- graphical engraver ; he is known by his Speculum Bri- tannizE, or Historical and Chorographical Description * In that year 1603 one Lawrence Johnson graved several heads for the Turkish History. 45 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. of Micldlcsex and Hartfordshire, with a neat frontis- piece and maps. Antony Wood conjectures with great probability, that is the same person with the author of several tracts which he enumerates, and thinks he was born in Wihshire; and adds, that he was a com- moner of Hart-hal), Oxford, in 1564, and took the degree of master of arts in J573, that he lived at Hen- don near Arron in Middlesex, was patronized, by, or servant to lord Burleigh and his son Robert earl of Sa- lisbury, and that he wds a surveyor of the king's lands in 1614. Vertue subjoins that one Charles Whitwell made a map of Surrey for Norden, which was neater, than his other maps. He mentions also a large title- plate for the English B ble, inscribed C. Boel fecit in Richmonr, 1611. In Rymer's Faedera, vol. xvii. is a patent granted in 1618 to Aaron Rathbuine and Roger Bruges, for making a survey for a true and perfect de- scription of the citie of London and Westminster, in a map; and also several other cities. WILLIAM HOLE or HOLLE ") Engraved an oval head of Michael Dray- ton in 1613, a poor performance ; and ahead of Joannes Florius, Italian master to Anne of Den- mark. See Ames, p. 68. And those of George Wi- thers, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. thers^ Michael Drayton, Tom Coryat, John Hayward, and a very neat whole length oi prince Henry, for Drayton's Polyolbion. He also published a copy- book, called The Pen's Excellencie by Martin Billing- sley. The second edition with the picture of the latter has 28 plates, 1618. JODOCUS HONDIUS. Of whom I have given some account in the third vo- lume, under the article of his grandson Abraham, was son of Oliver de Hondt, an ingenious artist of Ghent, where probably Jodocus was born in 1563, and where he studied the mathematics, and the Latin and Greek tongues. The city of Ghent being delivered up when Jodocus was twenty years old, he came to Eng- land, and exercised various arts, as making mathema- tical instruments, types for printing, and engraving charts and maps. Among these were Sir Francis Drake's voyages, the Holy-land, the Roman Empire and divers otheis. His Celestial and Terrestial globes, the largest that had then been published, were much commended. Several of Speed's * maps were ex- ecuted by his hand ; and he had great share in the Other ( were done by Abraham Goos. + Atlas 48 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. *Atlas Major of f Gerard Mercator, which was finished by his son Henry, and published at Amsterdam in 1636. A translation of it by Henry Hexham quarter-master to Col. Goring was dedicated to Charles I. Besides these and some things which I have mentioned in the life of his grandson, Jodocus engraved a small print of Thomas Cavendish, the famous sailor, another of queen Elizabeth, a large sheet print of Sir Francis Drake, another smaller, and a head of Henry IV. of France. He married in London in 1586, and had se- veral children ; but removing to Amsterdam, he died there i6ii, being then but 48 years of age. His son HENRY HONDIUS Finished many works begun by his father, and in 1641 engraved a print of William prince of Orange from a painting by Alexander Cooper; a large head of queen Elizabeth, done at tlie Hague 1632; James I. aet. 42, 1608, (very poor) and in a set of heads pub- lished in 1608, those of Sir Richard Spenser and Sir Ralph Winwood. * Thire is a print of Jodocus prefixed to it. + Mbkcatox. afterwards published a curious map of the British islet. A. BLOOM, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 49 A. BLOOM, A NAME to a print of James I. which is inscribed in Italian, Giacomo Re della Gran Bretagna. The same person, I suppose, is meaned by his Initials A. B. which I find to some prints of that age. THOMAS COCKSON Is unknown to us but by his works here following, Mathias I. emperor. Demetrius emperor of Russia. Mary de' Medici. Lewis XI U. Concini marquis d'Ancre, 1617. Francis White dean of Carhsle, 1624. These six are in folio. Henry Bourbon Prince of Conde. Princess Elizabeth. Samuel Daniel, 1609. T. Coryat. The revels of Chrlstiandom. King James I. sitting in parliament. G King AO CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. King Charles I. in liive manner. Each on a whole sheet. Charles earl of Nottingham on horseback. Sea and ships. Cockson generally used this mark '^. PETER STENT Was, I believe, an engraver, certainly a print-seller. On a portrait of the king of Bohemia is said, Sold by Peter Stent. To one of the above-memioned Francis White, but engraved by G, Mountain, is P. Stent excud. as is to a cut oi Sir James Campbell lord-mayor in 1629, but to one of Andrew Willet with six Latin verses, are the letters P. S. who probably cut the plate, (is no other .artist is mentioned.' Stent certainly lived so late as 1662, for in that year, as he had done in 1650, he ■published a list of the prints that he vended, which list .was re-printed by Overton, (who bought his stock) in 1672, In the first catalogue were mentioned plates of London, St James's, Nonsuch, Whitehall, Wanstead, Oatlands, Hampton-court, Theobalds, Westminster, Windsor, Greenwich, Eitham, Richmond. Woodstock, Basinghouse ; battle of Naseby, two sheets, with ge- neral Ludlow on horseback ; two more of the battle of Dunbar; CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 51 Dunhar; all now extremely scarce, and the more va- luable as many of ihe edifices themselves no .longer exist. Nonsuch, that object of curiosity, is commonly known only by the imperfect and confused sketch in one of Speed's maps, but there is a large and fine print of it, by G. Hoefnagle, in the first volume of Biaun's Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Of *01d Rich- mond and Greenwich I have drawings; and of the former is a small view by Hollar. In Overton's list is mentioned a map of the Royal Exchange by Thomas Cartwright, the builder. * At the lord viscount Fitzwilliams's, on Richmond-gre«n, arc tv/o very large pictures, which came oat of the old neighbouring palace : tliey are views of that palace, and were painted by Vinckenboom, who I never knew was in England. The landscape in both is good, and touched in the style of Rubens ; the figures are indifFereat, the horses l)ad. In the view to the green is a stag-hunting : in the other raorrice- dancers, and a fool collecting money from the spectators. By the dresses they appear to have been painted about the latter end of James I. or beginning of Charles, for some of the ruffs are horizontal, some falling on the breast, which latter fashion was introduced at that pe- riod. There appears to have been a pretty detached chapel, which is not in Hollar's view, and a boarded gallery to the ferry. WIL- S2 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. WILLIAM DOLLE, A NAME that occurs to*a neat little print of Sir Henry Wootton, with the word, philosophemur ; and to those of Mar. Franke master of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge ; of John Cosin bishop of Durham ; of Samuel Boteley ; of the duke of Buckingham ; of Sanderson bishop of Lincoln ; of Milton, Hooker, and the earl of Essex. DEODATE, A NAME to a print of Sir Theodore Mayeme. An Italian, called Deodate, was physician to prince Henry, and probably this engraver. * * There is another similar by Lombart, prefixed to the first edition of Sir Henry's remains. R. MEIGHAN CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. R. MEIGHAN ^ -7 Certainly M'orked in the year 1628, as 1620 > 3 he then pubhshed a head of John Clas'el, and lived in St. Dunstan's church-yard. Ames 46.* THOMAS CECILL, ■7 Commended by Mr. Evelyn, did a print ^^^^ 3 o{ Sir John Burgh who was killed at the isle ot Rhee ; of John Weaver,+ which is dated 1631 ; of Walter Curie bishop of Winchester ; a small whole length of Archee, the king's jester; an oval head of John Talbot earl of Shrewsbury ; queen Elizabeth on * 1 AM told, since the former edition, that Meighan was not an en-i graver, but a bookseller and editor; that be published an edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor in 1630, and that his name often occurs on the records of the Stationers Company. + It is ptcfixed to his funeral monuments : the frontispiece is by the- same hand. horseback i ^4 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, horseback; Gustavus Adolphus;* Edw. .leynoldsf bishop of Norwich ; Sir W. Cecil ; Thomas Kidder- minster of Langley, 1628; and the frontispiece to lord Bacon's Sylva S) Ivarum. ROBERT VAUGHAN, His works, though not numerous nor good, are more common than those of the ten preceding. Sucli are, James I. Lancelot Andrews bishop of Winchester. Sir John Wynn of Gwedur, in Carntrvonshire, Jcniglit. and baronet, obiit 1626, aet. 73, a very large head, coarsely done. George CliflTord earl of Cumberland, in an oval. John Fisher bishop of Rochester. Sir Francis Drake, with four English verses. Mr. Aitliur Hildesham, preacher at As'iby de la Zouch. • In Scu(Jery's Curia Politiae. + This head of bishop Reynolds was probably engraven while he •*»as only rector of Braunton in Northamptonshire, of which he was possessed in 1631 ; see the title to his Treatise of the Passions. He was not consecrated bi hop till j66o, and none of Cecill's works bear date sifter the reign of Charles I. Sir CATALOGUE OF EXGRAVERS. 55 ^ Sir Walter Raleigh. Judge Littleton kneeling before a desk. Tliomas Wilsford, aet. 40, with a line from Boetius, and four English verses. He engraved a monument in Dugdalc's Warwick- shire, and som.e of the maps; the cuts in Norton's Ordinal, and finished those for Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum in 1651, at the lattcr's house in Black- friars. Vertue says, from Ashmole's MSS. that during the Interregnum Vaughan engraved a print of Charles II. to which he added so offensive an inscription, that an accusation was preferred against him for it after the restoration. I have a very curious little book, intituled, " The true Effigies of our most Illustrious Sovereign Lord King Charles, Queen Mary, with the rest of the Royal Progenie ; also a Compendium or Abstract of their most famous Genealogies and Pedigrees, ex- pressed in prose and veise, with the times and places of their birth, 1641." It contains heads of the king, queen and prince Charles, and whi)le lengths, of Marv, James, Elizabeth, Anne, Henry in his cradle, and au elder Charles who died. Some are by Hollar, one bv Robert Vaughan. * The duke of York is playing at tennis. Edward Terry, rector of Grcenford, Middlesex, This is the latest I find of Vaughan's works, being * He also engraved Bccket's shiine, from a MSS. in ihc Cotton U- ^rajy ; v. Goujti's Topogr. jd, edit, vol. 1. p. 455. dated 56 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. dated 16^5. There is a print of Robert Devereux earl of Essex, general of the parliament, which Ames gives ys engraved by J. Vaughan. If this is not an error of the press for R. it might be a brother. There is ano« ther of this lord by J. Hulett,* of whom I find no other \v'ork,+ except a print of Sir T. Fairfax. Vaughan engraved some, if not ail the heads ia Bentivoglio's Wars of Flanders, Englished by the earl of Monmouth, WILLIAM MARSHAL,+ ^ A MORE voluminous workman, who by the persons represented I should conclude prac- tised early in the reign of James. In the year 1634, and six or seven years afterwards, he was employed by * Another engraver of this name, who executed the cuts for Field- ing's Joseph Andrews, died in Red-lioii-strcet Clerkenwellj in Ja- nuary 1771, + I AM informed that the heads of lord Essex and Fairfax were done for Peck's life of Cromwell ; and that 'Hulett executed many plates for Coetlogon's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, and for the Life of queen Anne, both published in weekly numbers, by Robert Walker. The plates for the latter were copied by Dubosc. f He might be brother of Alexander Marshal the painter, whom I have mentioned in a former volume. Another William Marshal was a jrintscUer in the year 1690. Moseley CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 17 Moseley the bookseller to grave heads for books of poetry, ai;id from *thelr great similarity, in drawing and orna- ments, Vertue supposed that he drew from the life, though he has not expressed ad vivuni, as was the custom after- wards ; and he was confirmed in this conjecture by a print of Milton at the age of 2,1, with which Milton, who was handsome, and Marshal but a coarse engraver, seems to have been discontented by some Greek lines, that are added to the bottom of the plate, which was prefixed to his Juvenile Poems. Vertue adds, that from this to the year 1670 he knows no engraving of Milton, when Faiihorne executed one, with ad vivum delineavit et sculpsit ; and this Vertue held for the most authentic likeness of that great poet, and thought Marshal's and Fairthorne's bore as much resemblance as could be expected between features of 21 and 62. Marshal had the felicity too of engraving Shakespear for an edition of his poems in duodecimo 1640, repre- senting him with a square stiff band and a laurel in his hand. This is very hard, but not so bad as three others I have by his hand, of bishop Ridley, of Dr. Whit- acre, and of Robert Dudley earl of Leicester. There is besides a larger oval of Dr. T. Taylor. But the best of his works that I have seen, and that too probably one of his earliest, before employed in the drudgery of booksellers, is the head of a young author, without * He instances in the prints of Stapleton, Milton and Hodges. The last I find ijo where else. H a name, 58 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, *a name, set. 18, anno 1591, but with arms, a Spamsh raioito, and some verses by Isaak Walton, This is much laboured. Ames has recorded about twenty more, of lord Bacon, lord Burleigh, Charles I. doc- tor Colet, R. Carpenter, earl oi Essex, queen Eiiza- .beth, John Hall,, mjrquis of Hamilton, Philemon tHoliand, Robert Jenkins, Henry earl of Monmouth, John SvHi, R. Sibbes, J. Sherley, William earl of Sterling, Josiah Shute, and archbishop Usher. :|: Mar- shal also engraved, but very poorly, the frontispiece to Ta\u)r's Libeity of prophecying; and Fairfax on horseback, for a title-page to Spragg's England's Re- covery, folio. G. GLOVER y Was cotemporary with Marshal, and en- ^^^'^j t^r^ved the portraits of Lewis Roberts in 1637, of J. Goodwin, William BarrifT, Sir Edward De- * It is Dr, Donne, equipped for the expedition to Cales ; and is prefixed f o an '-arly edition of his poems. 4 Tins is at the bottom, of the frontispiece to his translation of Xe- nophon's CyropKdia. X I H^vE four more, Robert, Herrick, Daniel Featlcy, Will.Hodson, and Sir T. Fairfax, on horseback, hdw. Bowers pinxi ring. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 53 line^, John Lilburn, John Pym, Henry Burton, and Nrft. Witt, all specified by Ames. And a small whole length of Sir Tliomas Urquhart.* Joannes Amos Co- menius, Mrs. Mary Griffith, and some others whom he lialh omitted. Sir Edward Bering's is finely finished. HENRY PEACHAM, Author of the Compieat Gentleman, was certainly a judge ot those arts which are the subjects of these vo- lumes ; and having contributed to their illustration, de- serves a larger article in such a work, than I am able to give of him.f Sanderson, an inielligent writer on the same topics, is equally unknown to us ; his Graphice, though in tortured phrase, contains both sense and in- struction. The writers of that age, though now neg- lected for their uncouth stile, their witticisms, and want of shining abilities, are worth being consulted for many * He made the first English translation of Rabelais. + He was of Trinity College, Cambndge, -where he took the dek : but his works, says Vertue, are not numerous. His head is in the collection of Vandyck's painters. LUKE VOSTERMAN Was, I think, superior to his rival Voerst, at least his his prints are more highly finished. Vertue savs, he stayed here about five or six years, but in different places has mentioned woiks that take in the space of fight yeais. He was employed by the king and the carl CATALOGUE OF EXGRAVERS. 69 of Arundel,* and his and Voerst's plates, seem to be the first that were, done here from historic subjects. Vosterman, from the king's colleciion, engraved Ra- phael's St. George, Christ praying in the garden by Annibal Caracci, and his burial by Parmegiano, and Lot and his daughters by the same. For the earl of Aiundel, as early as 1623, he made some diawings wiih the pen, particularly a woman's head from Lion- ardo da Vinci, and a portrait of prince Henry. And ior the same lord he performed a good print from Vrfn- dyck's fine picture of the earl t and his countess Ala- ttea Talbot, sitting together, the earl pointing to a globe. To the sanie lady Vosterman dedicated a large print on six sheets, from Rubens's battle of the Ama- zons. And he drew the old countess Anne Dacre, the earl's nioiher, from whence Hollar engraved a very- neat and rare print. Vv' hat portraits I find of his hand are, Charles I. with ruff, ribband, and slashed habit ; large octayo, good. Vandyck looking over his shoulder, and holding up his cloak, chain about his neck. Thomas duke of Norfolk, with the staves of lord treasurer and earl marshal, from Holbein. A very fine print. * He worked for the eail in 1631. + Thsre 18 another of the earl alone; Six 64 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Sir Thomas More, from ditto, unhke all other pic- tures of wSir Thomas. This has a Jlatter face, and a very small bonnet. His right hand is held iip to his beard, a letter or paper in his left, a llitlc v;hite dog lies on a table before him. Erasmus, alter the same painter. Holbein hhr.self, with the pencil in his left hand, I suppose copied fram another print. Alo\S!us Contarini, embassador from Venice to James I. 1628. The of], old, very old man, Thomas Parr. Claudius Maugis, 1630. William earl of Pembroke. "William Cavendish, marquis of Newcastle. Abraham Aurelius, Lond. ast. 43, 1618. Charles Duke of Bourbon. St. George, 1627. St. Helena. What heads he engraved from Vandyck, I suppose were executed after he left England. In that period too probably was done a small oval head of Jean Coiite de Tilly, with tour emblematical figures and six French verses. As I do not know the time of Vcsteiman's death, a priiit of Sir Hugh Cartwrlght, from Diepen- beck, engraved in 1656, might be the work of Vos- ferman junior, who made a plate from Holbein's Tri- umph of Riches. The father, while in England, painted a small piece or two for a Mr. Skinner of Rochesier. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 65 In this place should appear the inHefatigahle and ad- mired Hollar, but the very enumeration of his works having furnished his no less laborious successor Mr. Venue, with matter for an entire volume, it would be impertinent to dwell on his article. Though employed by booksellers, few of his prints but were useiul or curious. His largest are indifferent ; the nearer his works approach to wanting a magnifying glass, the nearer they advance to perfection. About the same period were many other artists, several of whom at present support their claim by a single print or two. I will name them, because when once ranged, it is easy for collectors to allot to them as many more of tlieir works as shall be discovered ; and I hope the former will thank me for my pains ; for if the drudgery of collecting is^^ull, what is it to be a collector's collector ? MARTIN DROESHOUT, His heads are Shakespeare ; John Fox, Marty rolo- gist ; Richard Elton; John Howson, bishop of Dur- ham ; to this print is the name of William Peake, printseller, probably the father of Sir Robert Peake, who engraved some things himself, and whom I have mentioned in my second volume. Droeshout was also , I employed €6 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. employed for Haywood's Hierarchy of Angels, and ex- ecuted a print of Dido stabbing herself, for Stapylton's Virgil, octavo, and a head of lord Mountjoy Blount. H. STOCK, To a print of William earl of Salisbury, ovaL H. VANDERBORCHT 1 The painter, whom 1 have mentioned be- fore, gnved several things from the Arun- delian collection. At Paris was a coli^ection of plates frora that cabinet, containing 567 pieces pasted into a book. Vanderborcht's are dated from 1631 to 1638. T. SLATER Lived, I suppose, about this time, having graved a head of George Webbe, bishop of Limerick, whose drc^S is of that age. See Ames, p. 180. Some English heads were done by an engraver that I do not find was ever here, though he stiled himself tnc king's CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 67 king's engraver : They are very large and handsome prints, particularly those of Charles I. his queen, and the duke of Buckinsrham. There is a smaller ot Sir Dud- ley Carleton, and one still less of Antonio di Domitiis, archbishop of Spalatro. This artist was William Delft', who worked chiefly after MIrevelt. George Gifford did a head of John Rate, poor enough ; and another of Hugh Latimer, bishop of Worcester, Edmund Marmion, and a head of George Tooke of Pope's, oval. THOMAS CROSS J) Occurs oftener; by him I find plates of Jeremiah Burrough'?, 1646. j^^Jonas Mo;e, matheifi. with a scroll of paper in his hand, 1649 H. Stone p'.nx. Thomas Doolittle, minister of the gospel. Robert Dingley, master of arts, John Gadbu-y. Chrisiopher Love. E'^ward Leigh. ]vhn Richardson, bishop of Ardagh, 1634. Philip MassiniTcr. Francis Roberts, I 2 Thomas 6s CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVER^. Thomas Wilson. Thomas Fidell, of Furnivarji-inn. Richard Brome, six English verses. Samuel Clarke, pastor of St. Benet Finck. Vincent Wing. Frontispiece to White's Rich Cahinet. 1684. S. SAVERY Was probably in England, though of three prints with this signature, there is but one which has not some fo- reign marks to it. This last is of Speed, who, with his hat on, is sitting in his chair. It is dedicated by- George Humble. The other two are, Charles I. with a high-crowned hat, as he is repre- sented in the mezzotinto of him at his trial, which, by the way, is said to be painted by Vandyk, who was dead some years before that event. The face probably Was taken from one of his pictures, and the hat added. In this print, by Savery, is a view of Westminster, in the manner of Hollar, A. V. Dyck. pinx. S. Savery fecit, Joost Hartgers excud. The inscription in Dutch, There is another of these without the name of Savery. Thomas lord Fairfax, profile ; bat on. A strong dark print, something like the manner of Rembrandt. JDutch Verses. J, GOD, <5atalogue,of engravers. 69 J. GODDARD, ) Known by only one print, of Martin Bil- ^ lingsley, aetat. suae 27, 1651, oval irame, moito, four English verses. This Billingsley appears to have been a writing-master, a profession who have been very apt to think their portraits of consequence enough to be preserved. J. DICKSON Did a head of Edward Parry, Episcopi La- onensis, anno 1660, Oxon. A. HERTOCKS ) Engraved A. Brome, 1661, oval frame. 1 66 If ) *Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state, oval frame laurelled. * The picture from whence this was taken, was done abroad in 1654. Veituc did a print of Sir Edward from a better picture, by Sir Peter Lely, in 1665, Lord 70 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Lord chief justice Rolle, a celebrated writer on die law. Edward Waterhouse, Arm. and a few other head-. W. Chamberlayne's head, prefixed to his Pharon- nida, 1659. A frontispiece to the Icon Basiiike, in folio. V. Ames, p. 34. Anoiher to the compleat colleciion of that king's works; that to Mr. Evelyn's Sculpiura,* and several others. J. CHANTRY, ) Another obscure artist, enaraved the heads 1662 > . . ) of Edward Leign, esq. M. A. of Magdalen- hall, Oxford, 1660, of Thomas Whitaker, physician to Charles II. of Selden, and Geihing, a writing-master. F. H. VAN HOVE, Another Dutch engraver, and moret prolific, seems to have worked here from the end of Charles I. * V. SCULPTURA, p. 46. + AMf 5 mentions two dozen of his prints, to ^CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 71 to near the conclusion of the reign of king William: his cuts are dated in the years 1648^, 1653, 1654, 1692, &c.* but I have seen nothing of his hand thai makes a particular enumeration of his works necessary. ROTTERMANSt Did a print of Sir William Waller, dated 1643, bul I do not know that he was in England, having found nothing more of his hand, unless a print of Nathaniel Richards, gent, mentioned by Ames, p. 141, with the initial letters T. R. be his. Rawlins the medallist sel- dom put more than tho?e capitals either to his coins or writings. They may therefore belong to him. FRANCIS BARLOW, Who has ± already appeared in this work, is peculiarly intitled to a place here ; though having given what * There is a small print of king William on horseback, by Van Hove, prefixed to the epitome of trhc Art of War, 169a. He did a considerable number of prints for John Diinton, the bookseller, in that king's reign. See Dunton's Life and Error*, p. 346. + He spelled his name Rodttermondt. + Anecdote* of rainting, vol. ii. particu- 72 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. particulars Verj'«x. '^ould discover relative to his life, I shall here only specify his etchings. For Edward Benlow's divine poems, called Theo- phila, fol. 1652, he drew and etched several designs, as he did for Ogleby's Virgil and ^sop. His share in Monke's Funeral, and in the book of birds* I have mentioned. A PRINT of an eagle soaring In the air with a cat in its talons. This event Barlow saw in Scotland, as he was drawing views there. The cat's resistance brought both animals to the ground, where Barlow took them up. R. +GAYWOOD, Who is mentioned both by Mr. Evelyn and Sander- son, was scholar, and close imitator of Hollar, and though I do not knov/ that he attempted views, may in his heads be mistaken for that master. Indeed that is ♦ Griffiere etched some plates of birds and beasts after Barlow. Sailmakcr, Boon, Danckcrs and Streatcr, the painters, etched some things. + Gay wood has not set his Christian name at length to one of hl» prints. Vertue says that to soiuc qI them be put quondam Qiscipulus WsB. Hollar. not CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 73 not saying that he arrived at any great excellence ; yet he far outshone many I have mentioned. He engraved the cpuchant Venus of" Ti^^o with a Spaniard playing on an organ-, a fine picture of king Charles's collection, and since of Cholmondeley's. The oiher works of Gaywood are portraits, of Mary queen of Scots with a cross in her hand ; W. Drummond of Hawthornden, the Scottish historian, a small oval, with his arms: Ed- ward Cocker, who seems to have been an * engraver too ; there are two different prints of this man, one of them very neat. Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke; Sir George Cook; William Fairfax, with six English verses ; Holbein ; James Hq|der, writing-master ; William Leybourne Marguerite Lemon, Vandyck's mistress, with French verses ; Countess of Portland ; John Playford ; there are three different prints of this man, by Gaywood, Loggan, and Van Hove ; Matthew Stephenson, an humble author ; to this print are these gingling rhimes. The printer's profit not my pride, Hath this idea fignify'd, For he push'd out the merry play» And Mr. Gaywood made it gay.+ Cuthbert Sidenham, 1654 ; Lady Eleanor Temple, wuth four quibbling verses, 16,58 ; Vandyck ; Charles * Cocker published fourteen or fifteen copy-books, and engraved his own writing, some of it on silver plates. Sec Biogr. Brit, artic. Bales. f A BETTER pun on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which it was ;aid made Gay rich, and Rich gav. K (M.) 74 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. (II.) king pt" Scots ; Lipsius; Mahomet; Monsieur cle Balzac i Doctor Faustus; a heatl of Christina (pro- bably imaginary) for Fowler's troubles of Sweden and Poland ; and a few more. DUDLEY AND CARTER Were disciples of Hollar; the former, like Gaywood^ wrote himself quond^n discipulus. His most consi- derable work was the set of etchings for the Life of JEsop, prefixed to the latter editions of Barlow's ^Esop. Robert Pricke was another of his scholars, and pub- lished Pierre le Muet's Architecture in 1675. Mr. FRANCIS PLACE, A GENTLEMAN of Yorkshire, had a turn to most of the beautiful arts. He painted,* designed and etched ; * Mr. Scott, of Crown-court, Westminster, had a picture of goose- berries painted in oil on a back ground, a common method with him, as Mr. Scott was told by Mrs. Windham, Place's daughter, who was livyig in 1764, and a jug of his eartkca wsuc, Vertue CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, 75 V-ertue had heard that he learned the latter of Hollar, and has preserved a letter that he received from Mr. Place, in answer to his inquiries into that fact and about Hollar liimself, of whom he relates, on his own know- ledge, many particulars which Vertue has inserted in his life of tirat artist, but denies his having been In- structed by him. Mr. Place was a younger son of Mr. Rowland Place, of Dinsdale, in the county of Dur- ham, and was placed as cletk to an attorney in London, where he continued till 1665, in which year going into a shop, the officers came to shut up the house, on its having the plague in it. This* occasioned his leaving London; and gave him an opportunity of quitting a pjofession that was contrary to his inclination, and of following the roving life he loved, and the arts for which be had talents.* Ralph Thoresby, in his Ducatus Leo- diensis.t often mentions Mr. Place with great enco- K 2 niiums, * The additions to tlils article were communicated by a near relation of Mr. Place. + Pp. 196, 466, 477, 492, 497. At the end of this account of Leeds is a catalogue of Thoresby's own Museum, now dispersed, in which were some valuable, and many foolisrt curiosities. Of the latter sort, was a knife taken from one of the Mowhawks 1710, so seriously was that vision believed at that time by the people. Another of his rarities w,as a leaf of an Ananas ; that fru't, now so common here, was scarce cDou^'h in the year 1715 to have a leaf of it preserved in » repository. The book itself is very divcrtmg. Thoresby, like other soleuin and re- tired triflers, tJ)ou?ht the world interested in knowing whatcva related to them. Ashmoles Diary is ridiculously curious. Thoresby informs 76 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. r miums, and specifies various presents that he made to his Museum. He tells us too that Mr. Place disco- vered an earth for, and a method of making porcelain,* which he put in practice at the manor-house of York, of which manulacture he gave Thoresby a fine mug. + ' From the same account we learn that Mr. Place disco- vered porphyry at Mount Sorril in Leicestershire, of which he had a piece to grind colours on. This author specifies views of Tinmouih-castle and light-house ; the cathedral of York, churcRes and prospects of Leeds, drawn and etched; and a mezzotinio oi Henry Gyles the glass-painter, executed by Mr. Place. He also scraped three plates of John Moyser, esq. ot Be- verley, his particular friend ; ot Thomas Comber dean of Durham, and of bishop Crew; the laft is finely executed. Many sketches of caftles, and views which he took in Wales, and of- various other places in Eng- land, Scotland, and Ireland, several of them well finished, are extant, and have beeii engraved. A view of Scarborough-calUe was drawn as late as the year ui that in his youth he was uneasy when he first observed that he had not the usual quantity of spittle that others have, p. 615. What a brave discovery was printing for men who wished to record how often they sneezed ! - * His pottery cost him much money : he attempted it solely from a turn to experiment ; but one Clifton of Pontefract took the hint from him, and made a fortune by it. + I HAVE a coffee-cup of his ware; it is of grey earth with streaks of black, and not (upetior to common earthen-ware. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 77 1715. His prints are very scarce; he seldom resided in London, and drew only for his amusement, seldom compleating what he undertook, and in his rambles painiing, drawing,^ and engraving, occasionally. In the reign of Charles II. he was offered a pension of £. 500 a year to draw the royal navy ; but declined ac- cepting it, as he could not endure confinement or de- pendence. In Thoresby's Topography of Leeds are some churches drawn by Place. Ames mentions a print by him, which I have, of Richard Thompson, from a painting of Zouft : It is boldly done. Another is of Sierne, archbishop of York. He also did some plates of birds, v. vol. iii. of Anecdotes of Painiing, ar- ticle Griffiere; and the figures for Godartlus's book of insects. Mr. Place died in 1728, and his widow, by whom he had a daughter married to Wadham Wynd- ham, esq. quitting the manor-bouse in YorJc, disposed oi his paintings, among which were an admired piece of lowls, others of flowers and fish, unfinished. There are two heads of Mr. Place extant, one by himself, the face only finished, and another by Murray. J. SAVAGE Mav be fliled an engraver to a set of heroes, whom Prior calls Tht unfortunate brave. No country preserves the images and anecdotes of such worthies with suchi care 78 CATALOGUE OF E N'GRAVERS, care as England. The rigour of the law is here a pass- port to fame. From the infringers of Magna Charfa to ihe collectors on the road, from charles I. to Maclean, every sufferer becomes the idol ol the mob. Some of the resemblances, preserved by Savage, arc of men who fell in a better cause; bishop Latimer, Algernon Sidney, Alderman Cornish, the earl of Argyle, Sir Edmondbury * Godfrey, Sir Thomas Armstrong, and the duke of Monmouth. He has also done heads of ]oliri Gadbury, Sir Henry Chauncy, Sir Henry Pol- Jexfen, tjoha a Lasco, Arthur earl of Torrington, + Ch, Leigh, M. D. some coins in Evelyn's Numismata, and two plates for Guidon's Thermae Britannica?. * V ThorcsbyV, Miiscuit), mentioned above, w?s a blood-colouredt aribband with death's head, swords, Sic. inscribed, " in memory of Sir Kdmondbury Godfrey, murtbered the isth of October, 1678." A' stvont; nicture of the hcigiit to which the rage of party was carried ! + For this plate Savage received three pounds, and the same for Latimer. :}: This doctor ought not to be forgotten for his translation of a Latin epitaph, which he has given in his history of Lancashire : the latter part of the inscriplion runs thus, L. Julius maximus Alae Sar Conjux Coningi incomparabili Et Filio patris pientis simo et Socerae teua cissimas Memorial, p." Thus pnglished by Dr. Leigh, book iii. p. 5. " Julius Maximus and Alas a Samaritan, wife to her incomparable husband, erects this to perpetuate the memory of Simo, the son of 2 pious fatlier and his fathcr-iii-law. Mr. I I I I - m CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 75 Mr. WILLIAM LODGE Was son of Mr. WiHiam Lodge of Leeds, mercliant^ by Elizabeih, daughter of Mr. John Sykes, eldest son of Richard Sykes, esq. one of the first aldermen of that town [then* newly made a corporation by Charles I.^ here our artist was born July 4, 1649, inhe- rited an estate of 300/. a year. From school he was sent to Jesus College Cambridge, znd thence to Lin- coln's-inn; but more pleasurable studies suiting his ge- nius, he attended Thomas Lord Bellassis, afterwards Viscount Falconberg, in his embassy to Venice^ where meeting with Giacomo Barri's Pittoresco, wherein are particularized the chief pictures in Laly, and an ac- count of Canon Settala's famous cabinet at Milan ; Mr. Lodge transl,ited it into English, and added of liis own graving heads of the most eminent painters, and a map oi Italy, printed in octavo, 1679. W' hile on his travels he drew various views, which he afterwards etclied. Returned to England he assisted Dr. Lister of York in drawing rare shells and fossils, which the doc- tor transmitted to the Royal Society, and are inserted in their Transactions, particularly the Table of Snails, No. 85 ; the Trochitas and Enirochi, No. 100 ; the Astroites, No. 112; the drawings of which were in * Anno 1.626. Thorcsby's, to CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Thorcsby's Museum, from whom Virtue rcceivcfl these niemoires. He also drew for Dr. Lister thirty-four dif- ferent sorts of spiders. There was then at York a club of virtuosi, com|)osed of Dr. Martui Lister, John Lam- bert, esq. Thomas Kirke, esq. Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Francis Place. Between the two last congenial artists was a strict friendship. Once on their rambles, on which thej^ ohen staid three or four months, as they were taking views in Wales, they were suspected for Jesuits, [it was at the time of the Popish plot] seized, imprisoned, and not released but on the appearance of some friends from Chester. Thdresby, who amidst his puerile or anile ideas, could not avoid the superstition of dreams, related to my author, that Lodge being on a fishing party at Mr. Boulter's, at Stank near Harwood, dreamed [it seems he had never dreamed before, and Thoresby quotes Mr. Locke* for another mononeirist} that he should be buried in Harwood church. This vexed him, as he had destined his sepulture at Gisburne, near Craven, by his mother. A dream is nothing without the completion : Lodge died at Leeds ; but as the hearse passed by Harwood, the carriage broke, the coffin was damaged, and the dream happily fulfilled ; the corpse being interred in the choir there Aug. 27, 1689. One captain Fisher wrote upon Mr. Lodge's picture, " Parisiis, Burdegalas Romse, ac postremo, * Essay, vol. i. p. 74. Venctiis * CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Jl Venetlis humaniofibus studiis juxta biennium versatus, jam tandem honestis litteris et aitibus excultus, natale solum petiit 1671, cCtatis 23, jam pridem hospitii Lin- Golniensis admisso socio." Mr. Lodge's works, besides those I have mentioned, are, View of Gaeta, the Mole and Plancus's tomb. Pozzuolo, Caracalla's mole, Baiaj, &c. Ruins of the amphitheatre and aqueduct at Mintur- num. Promontory of Circe, temple of the sun, &c. Lambeih- house from the Thames. Westminster-hall and the Abbey. SherifF-hutton castle. Clifford's tower. View of York, from the water-'house to the ruins of the manor-house. Besides these, which were small, he did some large plates of The Pont du Guard in Languedoc. To this he signs WL. The monument. This is reckoned the best draught of it. Leeds, witli the ruins of Kirkstall and Fo'untain- abbies, with a map of the Wapentakes of Shireach and Morley, and a prospect of Wakefield. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with lesser views of Tin- mouih-castle, Alnwick, Holy-island, Berwick-upon- Tweed, Carlisle and Barnard-castle; all which were L finished, £2 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. finished, and a specimen printed off, before the plate was spoiled by an accident. In the middle was designed a map of Northumberland, and at the bottom a prospect of Durham, of the same dimensions with that of New- castle. Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dysart ; different plates. Oliver Cromwell and his page ; dedicated to the- Protector, Samuel Malines, after a picture by Claret. He painted some few things, from the life, in oil. WILLIAM SHERWIN, ^ Son of a divine of the same names, is the ) only person whom I find to have been royal engraver by patent ; which himself, on a print of his father, prefixed to the lattcr's clavis, tells* us he was. By what interest he obtained this distinction, does not appear ; certainly by no great excellence in his pro- fession. Nor are his works numerous, though he ex- ercised his art for many years, Ames mentions about sixteen heads by him ; and there is another, which he has omitted, of John Gadbury, the almanac-maker, * V. Amss, p. 157. who CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 83 who has been represented by no less than four artists. Sherwln perhaps engraved other plates besides portraits, He had done two of Charles II. one, whole length, prefixed to Ashmole's Order of the Garter. The first works I find by him are, William Bridge and William Salmon, both in 1670; the latest, judge Povvel, in 1711. The regular Architect of the Rule of the five Orders, by Vignola, with additions by Michael An- gelo, done into English by J. Leake, was printed for W. Sherwin, engraver, 1669. JOSEPH NUTTING Probably commenced engraver about the time of the restoration, as not long after he did a plate of Mary Duchess of Beaufort, from a picture of Walker, and therefore it is likely that he was of some eminence, A head of Matthew Mead, father of Dr. Mead the physician, is the best thing I have seen of him; his works are few, as Sir John Cheke, from an old picture ; James Bonnel, Mr. Lucke, George Parker, almanac- maker : and three of the family of Rawlinson ; the last dated 1709. He also engraved a frontispiece to Greenhill's Art of Embalming, and a head ot the au- thor, from a picture by Murray. L 2 W ,E S4 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. We now come to one of the most capital engravers that has appeared in this country. The number of those, whose works deserve intrinsic regard, abstracted from their scarcity, or tl^ curiosity of the persons and objects represented, is very smtill, and soon enumerated. The family ot Pass were singularly neat ; Hollar fetill surpassed them, and in branches to which their art ne- ver extended. Vorst and V^osterman shone in a higher stile. Lombart added roundness to delicacy, and was even a great performer, if compared with most of his Successors, of whom Robert White seems to have de- clined the least. John Smith carried the new disco- vered art of mezzotinto to the greatest perfection we have seen it attain. The last John Faber in some hings was, though far inferior, a good workman. Ku kail, commonly a wretched labourer, had singulai merit in one branch that will be mentioned. Mr. Strange, ashamed of the creeping and venal stile to which the art was sunk in Britain, has given us the works of Ita- lian masters, with a tool worthy of Italian engravers. But yet there had been one Englishman, who without the timid perfection of French masters, had shown that softness and force, freedom and finishing, were com- patible, and that the effect of chiaro scuro did not de, pend upon unblended masses of white and black : this was WILLIAM ^ ill 'am y J'a i t/i ante CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 85 WILLIAM FAITHORNE. *He was born in London, in what year is f uncertain, and bred under Peak, :}: painter and priniseller, after- wards knighted, with whom he worked for three or four years before the eruption of the civil vvar, and whom he accompanied into the king's service. Being made prisoner at Basinghouse, Faithorne was brought to London, and confined in Aldersgate, where he reverted to his profession, and among other heads did a small one of the first Viiliers duke of Buckingham, in the man- ner of Mellan. After much sohcitation by his friends, he was permitted to ^retire to France, wliere he found protection and encouragement from the Abbe de Ma- roiles, a singular man, who, with slender competence of parts, drummed and trumpeted for learning and the- arts, till he w^as admitted into the profession. His me- * This account is taken from a MSS. of Vcrtue, who received the particulars from Mr. Bagford, librarian to lord Oxford, and intiinate •with Faithorne; and from another of his friends, Mr. W. Hill Charke. + V. Second volume of this work. J Graham says he v.-as about seventy-five when he died. Eng. School, p. 417. ^ Graham says he was banished for refusing to take the oaths to Oliver; but by the account of his tv.'o friends, whom I transcribe, he returned to England before the protectorate, which better agrees with a head I shall mention presently, and with a shepherdess which he did at Paris in 1645. Graham adds, that he studied several years under Champagne, which is also doubtful. moires 86 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. moires are their memoires, and one reads them, though they iijform one of httle n^iore than that he was a good man, and acquainted with several tliat were great.* tAbout the year 1650, Faithorne returned to England; and soon after married the sister of one whom my au- thors call the famous captain Ground, By her he had two sons and a daughter ; Henry bred a bookseller, and Will iam to his taiher's profession. Faithorne now set J up in a new shop, at the sign of the ship, next to the drake, opposite to the Palsgrave's-head-tavern, without Tempie-bar ; where he not only followed his art, but sold Italian, Dutch and :|; English prints, and worked for booksellers, particularly Mr. Royston, the king's bookseller, Mr. Martin his brother-in-law, in St. Paul'-s church-yard, and Mr. William Peake, a stationer and printsellcr on Sirow-hill, the younger brother of his old master. Some time after the year 1680, Faithorne quitted his shop, and retired to a more private life in Printing-house-yard, Blackfiiars; still engraving, but chiefly painting from the life in crayons, in which branch he had formerly received instructions at Paris from Nanteuil. To these portraits 1 suppose we must refer such of his prints as have W. Faithorne pinxit ; * H» published a list of all that had made him presents of their ' uorks. ' Baviild's hpad is da'tcd 1654. ;f Tn^Ri are some to which is specified, Spldby William Faithorne, though CATALOGUE OF ENXRAVERS. though he also drew in * black and white, as John Au- brey in the Museum at Oxford. His crayon heads, mentioned by his biographers, were Mr. Lepiper the painter, col. J. Ayres, Mr. Allen, Mr.. Smith, tMr. Sturt, and Mr. Seddon, and most of the noted writing- masters. The last he undertook was of Mr. Jo. Oliver, surveyor of the works at St. Paul's. The misfortunes of his son William broke ^his spirits, though he was a robust and vigorous man; a lingering consumptioa put an end to his life. He was buried near bis wife, in St. Anne's Blacktriars, May 13, 1691. Besides his pictures and plates, he published his Art of Graving jjin 1662, dedicating it to his master Sir Robert peake. His friend Fbtman^ consecrated a poem to his me- mory, concluding, A Faithorne sculpsit is a charm can save From dull oblivion. and a gapnig grave. * Graham says also in miniature, of v^fhich there are many instances. + Sturt's I.:ad v/as also in lord Oxford's collection. X He was once currd by Ashmole of an Iliaca passio. See Diary of the Utter, p-St, w ho tells us tliat he paid Faithorne seven pounds for- engraving his portrait, p. 33. [| The whole litic is The Art of Gravcing and Etching, vifherein is exprcst the true way of graveing on copper. Also the manner and me- thod of that famous Callot and Mr. Boss, in their several ways of etching. § FLATMANhas two copies of commendatory verses prefixed to San- derson's Graphice. The first, on the fine head to the work, declares, He outsays ail, who lets you understand, The hca4 is Sanderson's, FaithQrne'i U>c hand. I SHALL S8 CATALOGUE OF p:NGR AVERS. I SHALL distinguish the works of Faitliorne into five classes ; first, his prints ; second, his middling, of which several approach to the first sort; some to three, his bad ; four, his historic; five, such as I have not seen, but many no doubt belong to the first list. Class i. His own head, looking over his shoulder, long Iiair. Sir William Paston, baronet, 1659. A plump gen- tleman, very long hair, silk mantle over one shoulder. Every part of this print , which I think the best of his works, is finished in the highest perfection. Lady Paston, same year ; probably after a picture of Vandyck. Margaret Smith, widow of Thomas Smith, and wife of Sir Edward Herbert ; from Vandyck. A whole length of her by the same master was in the Wharton collection, afterwards in my father's, and now mine. Montague Bertie second earJ of Lindsey, from Vandyck. William Sanderson, astat. suae 68, 1658. Soust pinxit. This head is prefixed to his^graphice, and does honour both to painter and engraver. There are two of these heads somewhat different. Carew Reynell, armiger.- Young man; long hair, short band tied. Samuel Collins, doctor of physic, aet. 67. W. J'alihorne ad vivuoi delin. et sculp. Anne CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 89 Anne Bridges countess of Exeter, from Vandyck. John Kersey, born at Bodicot, &c. 1616: mathe- matical books. Soust plnx. 1672. John La Motte, esq. citizen of London. Born 1577, deceased 1655. John Viscount Mordaunt. Head In armour, oval frame surrounded with arms, in the manner of prints of the Scottish nobility. Titles in Italian. _^ Thomas earl of Elgin, ast. 62, 1662. Old man with long hair, holding his mantle with his right hand. Mary daughter of Sir Edward Alston, wife of Sir James Langham. Henry Gary earl of Monmouth. John Pordage, philosopher, physician, divine. Thomas Killigrew, in a fur cap, sitting at a table on which lie several of his works. Head of Charles L hung up, a dog by the table. W. Sheppard pinx. George Rodolphus W eckkerlin, set. 50. Mytins pinx. Thomas Stanley, octagon frame. P. Lilly pinx, Robert Bayfield, aet, 25, 1654,^ in a large hat, four English verses. Another of the same person without a hat, aet, 27. Francis Rous, provost of Eton, large hat, aet. 77, 16^6, four English verses. •Small head of a man with long hair and little band, in an oval, with six verses, inscribed J. S. Wright, which shew the person represented to have been an author. Another small head of a man looking ofF, long hair curled, four English verses, inscribed G. W. It is the portrait of Noah Bridges, clerk of the parliament. M Sir 50 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Sir Henry Spelman, ruff and point night-cap. Thomas Hobbes, »Et. 76. En quam modice hab^fr^^t philosophia. One Loveday, in an octagon frame, with six English verses, devices, and French mottoes. A young clergyman, ditto, no name. Arms, five crescents on a cross ; ast. 28, 1662.* Samuel Leigh, young man's head. Arms, 3et. suae 15, 1661. Incipe & perfice, Domine. Henrietta Maria, with a veil. Royal arm?, Scot- land in the first quarter. Done at Paris in the man- ner of Mellan. A fine head of Smith, writing-master, drawn by Faithorne, but engraved by Vanderbank. Thomas Mace, prefixed to his book of music : Faithorne subscribed for three copies. Henry More, sitting under a tree in a landscape, half-length. Sir Orlando Bridgman, with the purse, half-length. Sir John Fortescue.t Robert Boyle, in an oval, with an air-pump. Elias Ashmole, bust in a niche. He paid Faithorne seven pounds for the plate. William Oughtred, ast. 83, in the manner of HoU lar, and as good. * Ames, p. 62, mentions a fine head by Faithorne, of Edward Ellis of Balioi College, to which this print and arms answer. + This and the preceding are in Dugdalc's Origincs Judiciales. John CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 91 JohnWallis, S. T. D. prefixed to his mechanlca. Head of a young man, in his own hair^ cravat tied with a ribband before ; mantle. Arms, a lion rampant crowned, with a bordure. Half theet. A large emblematical sheet print of Oliver Crom- well, whole length, in armour, with variety of devices and mottoes. This very scarce print is in my posses- eion : I never saw another proof of it, C L A s S 2. Henry Somerset marquis of Worcester, in armour, with a truncheon,* I have a proof of this, on which the titles are finely written by Faithorne himself, otherwise the plate had no inscription. Queen Catherine in the remarkable habit in which she arrived, long dark hair curled in rows like a perri- wig, and spreading wider to her shoulders ; strait point handkerchief, black gown laced, the sleeves slashed, * Thi s print has the garter, though it was never given to the marquis- Probably it was promised ; and the plate wanting the titles, looks as if lord Somerset died befoi-e it was finished, and before the prornise could, be compleatcd ; through the mts'o-tuncs of both the king and ihe innr- quis.- I once took this for a prin' of his sou Edward, and so did Virtue; but it is evidently copied from an older print, done when Henry was only earl, and which has his name, and was sold by St''nt,. In ditit print there is much less appearance of a ribband ; sq.smalla bit, that it might not be inten'led for the garter, and Faithorne, by mistakci jsiight supply the rest, and the George, as he has don«^ M 2 and 92 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAV ERS. and coming down to the middle of her arm, over which are turned up broad round niffles, white tabby petticoat laced, over a farthingale, gloves in her left hand. Barbara countess of Castlemaine, half-length, lean- ing on her left hand, in an oval frame. Christopher Simpson (a. master of music) J. Car- warden pinx. a name I have seen no where else. There is a smaller print of the same person, but much inferior. Prince Rupert, dishevelled hair, ribband with a large knot round his neck, broad sash laced ; a remarkable print, G. Dobson pinx. Small head of some author, in a Roman habit ; six English lines, Charles I, small head in an oval frame, with cornu- copiass and stone-work ; seems a head-piece to some book. John Bulwer, long Latin inscription. Edward Boys, S. T. B. cBt. 66, Mrs. Sarah Gilly, head in oval. This plate is some- times inscribed, Hannah Wooley, but the best impres- sions have the name of Gilly. A woman whole length, small, in short vest, long petticoat, a cloak with loops hanging behind. Under the figure Mariana, 1655. Mrs. Katherlne Philips, a bust; on the pedestal, [ Orinda. Mr. Abraham Cowley, W. Faithorne sculp. 1687. Another smaller, en buste ; a third to his Latin poems, Richard CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 93 Richard Carpenter, in the same frame, a profile; out of the mouth of which proceeds an animal's head breath- ing fire. Four Latin lines. Francis Glisson, doctor of physic, aet. 75. William Gouge, aet. 79, 1653. Valentine Greatrakes, the stroker ; streaking a boy's head. See an account of him in St. Evremont. John Mayow, in the habit of a doctor of physic. Sir Richard Fanshaw. Died at Madrid, 1666. Bust of Lucian in a niche, Greek motto, (en English verses. .Dr. Harvey, bust on a pedestal. Charles II, round the frame, Honi soit qui mal y pense. Two others larger ; one in armour, with six English verses ; the other in robes of the garter, the royal arms disposed at the four corners. Sir Thomas Fairfax. Rob. Walker pinx. in the manner of Mel Ian. John Milton, aet. 62, 1670. Guil. Faithorne ad vivum delin. et sculpsit. Francis More, serjeant-at-law. John Hacket, bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. Four English verses. Cardinal Richelieu, prefixed to the English transla- tion of his life, by John Doddington. Monsieur de Thevenot, whole length, in an Asiatic habit. Henry Terne, with an account of him in Latin. W. Shcppard pinx. Lord 34 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Lord chief-justice Anderson, ast. 76, Sir Henry Coker, aet. 48, 1669. Account of him in EngUsh.- Sir Buistrode Whitelocke in armour.* Charles earl of Carlisle in armour, oclagon frame. John Ogilby, P. Lilly pinx. Horace lord Vere, Sir Francis Vere, and Sir John Ogle, one eye. Qlivarius Britannicus heros, in armour on horseback. Olivarius primus. + Don John de Castro, the fourth viceroy of India. Samuel Bolton, S. S. Theol. D. in oval, four Latin verses. C L A S S 3. These do not deserve to be particularized. I shall barely name them : Richard Hooker ; Edmund Castelli ; Ricraft a merchant; the emperor Marcus Aurelius ; Henry Lawes ; bishop Brownrig ; Robert, second earl of Essex ; Charles 1. in armour ; John Ray ; Donii- nicus Contareno, dux Venctiarum. * The reason of Whitelocke being drawn in armour, though a lawyer, was his being , deputy-lieutenant of the militia, in which capacity he acted in the rivil war. + This and the preceding belong to a little book, called Parallclum Oliva: ; the frontispiece to which was also executed by Faithorne. Class CATALOGUE OF E?:GRAVERS, 95 Class 4. and 5. I JOIN these, as I have seen very few of his historic prints or title-pages ; but will separate them by placing the heads I have not, last, Parallelum Olivae. Gods in council at top ; Pallas and Neptune on the sides An emblematic print ; a pilgrim sitting and writing ; a pyramid before him with figures and inscriptions; Venice at a distance. This is a frontispiece to Pordage's book, whom I have mentioned before. -^neas killing Turnus, for Ogilby's Virgil. Hero and Leander, two prints for David White- ford's translation of Muszeus. Thomas Killigrew and the lord Coleraine, the princely shepards. I suppose this was for a mask, Mercurius Christianus. Mercurius Rusticus. Our Saviour on the cross, and St Benedict. The assembly-man. Lucasta, for Lovelace's poems, A plan of London and Westminster in six sheets and two half sheets. Published and surveyed by New- court, 1658.* * V. Couch's Brit. Topogr, in London, Christ, 95 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVL.RS. Christ, after Raphael. I believe this was finished by Pillian. r A Madonna, and Joseph, with a lamb, after La Hire : done while Faithorne was at Paris. Title-plates; to Taylbr's Life of Christ, extremely fine ; to the Compleat Embassador ; to Collins's Ana- tomy ; to Jerye's Copy-book ; to Hooke's Micographia ; and to the Philosophical Transactions. Some ot these may be only heads already mentioned ; the list 1 trans- cribe is imperfectly taken. The Story of Mr. Cross and Wahorne. I do not know what this means ; I suppose it is the duel of Mr. Crofts and JefFery Hudson.] Charles II. on his throne ; archbishop Sheldon, lord Clarendon, and Monke duke of Albemarle, standing ; some birds in Barlow's book. Frontispiece to the English translation of Mezerai's History of France ; poorly executed. In Taylor's Life of Christ, the four Evangallsts, and several historic prints in the book ; some in the stile of Goltzius, others of Hollar: the Annunciation, in his own manner, very good. Frontispiece to Horneck's Crucified Jesus. Ditto, to an old edition of Glanville on Witches. Six cuts to Sleiden's History of the Reformation in Germany, the English edition. Charles IJ. sitting between Sheldon and Sir Orlando Bridgman ; for the Present State of England. Frontispiece to Legrand's Philosophia. Some plate? for the Philosophical Transactions. HEADS; CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. S7 HEADS. Henry VUI. Richard Lovelace; Charles II. no name of engraver, one of his first works ; Charles II. inscribed, this is Charles the first's heir; *Endymion Porter; James earl of Perth, drawn by Faithorne, graved by Vanderbank ; Sir Bevil Granville ; an oc- tavo tprint, ex dono Rich. Racket Litchf. and Gov. episc. 1670, inservi Deo & lastare. Vertue mentions a head of the protector dedicated to him by Lud. Lam- bermontius a physician, with medals at the four corners of David, Solomon, Alexander, and Julius Caesar, which though without any name of. engraver, he be- lieved was Faithorne's work. Villiers duke of Buck- ingham, ip the manner of Mellan ; Sir John Hoskins ; Archbishop Usher, and a smaller ; Roger earl of Cas- tlemain ; Robert Henley, this is doubtful ; A man's head, no name, Latin inscription beginning, Quod- cunque manus tua facere potest ; Sir James Harring- ton ; Tobias Venner; James duke of York; John Prideaux bishop of Worcester; Mr. Richard Zebe- lina, teacher of short-hand ; Thomas Osborne earl of Danby ; William Bates ; Edward Stillingfleet bishop * This portrait ■which was doubted is now established as genuine, from a medal in profile, that corresponds in the likcnessi 4 It is the bishop's own head. N of CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. of Worcester; Quarles; Tafiletta; count Serena; a bisl'.op of Durham ; general Moncke ; Sir William Davenant ; Dr. * Charles Leigh; Penelope Herbert, doubtful; Dr. Colef, Glanvill, and J. Murcott. These three last are prefixed to their works. Sir William Davenant's was for the folio edition of his works. Ames gives some other heads with the name of Faithorne; but as he has always omitted to specify whether engravings or mezzotintos, I should suppose them the latter, and the works of our artist's son. WILLIAM FAITHORNE, junior, Who worked only in that kind, and arrived to a good degree of excellence. He was negligent ; and, I be- lieve fell into distresses which my authors say afflicted his father, and obliged him to work for booksellers. He died about thirty years old, and was buried in the church-yard of St. Martin's. His prints are, Thomas Flatman, probably his first work. Mary princess of Orange. Sir William Reade, t occulist to queen Mary. * This I am informed was engraved by Savage after Faithorne. + He was a mountebank, knighted by queen Anne, and appointed her occulist. Sec the Life of Mr. Nash. Mr. •CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 93 Mr. Dryden, in. a long wig. Queen Anne, with loose hair, garter-robes. I prince George of Denmark, Mr. Jeremiah Collier. John More bishop of Ely. Frederic count of Schomberg. Another when duke. John Cooper, a boy with a dog. Lady Katherine Hyde. Mrs. Mariamne Herbert, The princess of Hanover. Charles XH. king of Sweden. A lady, half-length, with a basket of flowers, no name. Lord Henry Scott. Mr. James Thynne, a boy. Mr. Richard Goraeldon. Queen Mary. Shadwell, the poet. Sir Richard Haddock, fine. Mrs. PlowJen, with a garland, gown lined with striped silk, no name. Another, but instead of the garland she has a neck- lace in her hand. Sancta Maria Magdalena. A Cupid, after Parmentier. A death's head between a watch and a rose in a glass bottle, A Black, giving fruit to a girl, inscribed Beauty's Tribute. N 2 Others 100 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Others mentioned by Ames, are, The princess Sophia. W. Bagwell. W. Boys. J. Seddon. Mrs. Smith. Madam Nichols. This I believe is the same with Mrs, Plowden. JOHN FILLIAN Was scholar of the elder Faithorne, whose heads he copied, and was living in 1676 ; but probably died young, as only two more plates appear of his hand ; the heads of Thomas Cromwell earl of Essex, and of Paracelsus. Mr. Hill the painter was a disciple of Faithorne, but never applied to engraving. PETER LOMBART. 66 X Vertue had been able to trace no circum- 3 stances of his life, but that he came from Paris, and returned thither, the first certainly before the Re- volution. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. lOl volution, as he graved a plate oF the protector; a frontis- piece to Ogllby's Virgil, published in 16^4 ; a title to a small octavo in 16^8 ; and Sir Robert Stapleton's head for his Juvenal before 1660. In fact, he does not seem to have staid long here in the reign of Charles II. a cut ol Antoine * Grammont being dated at Paris in J663. In 1660 he made a large title-plate with many figures for Field's Bible, printed at Cambridge. His best works are the twelve half-lengths from Vandyck, too well known to be particularized. His other plates I will repeat briefly, as X shall those of subsequent en- gravers. As they grow nearer to our own times and are common, to describe them is unnecessary. Head of Walker, the painter; something different from that at Oxford. Charles I. on horseback, from Vandyck. Lombart afterwards erased the face, and inserted that of Crora- vvcll, and then with the vicar of Bray's graver restored the king's. Cromwell, half-length in armour, page tying his scarf,. Sir Samuel Morcland. * So Vcrtue, I suppose this was Anthony first duke of Grammont.- Of his brother Philibert, the famous count Grammont, I have given a* print to bis Mcmoircs from his portrait among the knights of the St, Esprit, in the Sales des grands Augustins, at Paris — a collection it is- surprising the Frctich have never engraved, as it contains so Many oi their great men. Every nev/ knight sends bis portrait to that reposi- tory. , It is pity the same practice is not observ ed by our knights of the garter. John 102 CATALOGUE .OF ENGRAVERS. John Ogilby. Charles V. emperor. Dr. Charhon. AVilliam Davison, physician, Ann Hyde duchess of York. Dr. Donne.* ; Dr. Christopher Ternc. Samuel Malines. Sir Henry Wootton. Father Paul. John Dethick. Dr. Taylor. Cartwright, author. Alexander Ross. Thomas Taylor. Brian Walton. De la Fond, gazetter of Amsterdam, 1667. Johannes Dallaeus. Charles Emanuel, prince of Savoy, 1671. This seems the late?.t of his works. In Overton's catalogue of prints, dated 1672, is mentioned a book of the Seven Sciences, eight plates by Lombart, but probably executed wher^ he was in England. * There is a frontispiece to his eighty sermons, with his head and eflibleniatical figures, engraved by M. Merian, junioi', but I suppose not done in England. To Howel's Dodoaa's Grove the plates were ex* ccuted by C. Mcr;an, junior. Vertue CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 103 Vertue also names an emblematical print which he calls Theophila, or Love-sacrifice, witii the devices oi: the Trinity, It is the title to BencIIowe's Divine Poms, folio 1652. JAMES gammon' *' Can hardly," says Vertue, " be called an engraver, ' so poor were his performances ; yet one ot them has preserved a memorable person, Richard Cromwell, and authenticated a picture which I have of him by Cooper. Gammon's few other heads are, Sir Toby Matthews; Catherine of Braganza, and Mascall the painter, from a picture done by himself. ROBERT THACKER Calling himself designer to the king, engraved a large print on a plate of four sheets of the cathedral at Salisbury. Morgan, of whom I find as little, may be mentioned with him, having done a plate of London for Ogilby. WILLIAM 104 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. WILLIAM SKILLMAN, Living between 1660 and 1670, engraved the facadle of" Albemarle house, and a view of the banquetting- hou5e. 1662 JOHN DUNSALL, > Lived in the Strand, and taught to draw. ^ In 1662 he designed and etched a book of flowers. His portraits are, VViHiam Gouge ; Samuel Clarke, martyrologist; and king William and queen Mary. J, BROWN, ^ ") A NAME that might well escape Vertue, * ^ ^ since it is only found to a single print in Ames's catalogue of a supervisor of excise at Bristol ; the plate done at Tedbury, V. p. 48, PRINCE CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. / ICS PRINCE RUPERT. It is a trite observation, that gunpowder was discovered by a monk, and printing by a soldier. It is an addi- tional honour to the latter profession to have invented mezzotinto, Few royal names appear at the head of discoveries ; nor is it surprizing. Though accident is the most common mother of invention, yet genius be- ing a necessary midwife to aid the casual production, and usher it to existence, one cannot expect that many of the least common rank should be blest with- uncom- mon talents. Quickness to seize, and sagacity to apply, are requisite to fortuitous discoveries. Gunpowder, or printing, might have fallen in many a prince's way, and the world have been still happy or unhappy enough not to posses those arts. Born with the taste of an uncle, whom his sword was not fortunate in de- fending, prince Rupert was fond of those sciences which soften and adorn a hero's private hours, and knew how to mix them with his minutes of amusement, without dedicating his life to their pursuit, like us, who wanting capacity for momentous views, make serious study of what is only the transitory occupation ot i genius. Had the court of the first Charles been peace- ful, how agreeably had the prince's congenial propen- sity flattered and confirmed the inclination oF his uncle ! How the muse of arts would have repaid the patronage O of 106 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. of tl}e monarch, when for his first artist she would have presented him with his nepliew ! How different a figure did the same prince make in a reign of dissimilar com- plexion ! The philosophic warrior, who could relax himself into the ornament of a refined court, was thought a savage mechanic, when courtiers were only voluptuous wits. Let me transcribe a picture of prince Rupert, drawn by a *man who was far from having the least portion of wit in that age ; who was superior to its indelicacy, and who yet was so ovei borne by its prejudices, that he had the complaisance to ridicule virtue, merit, talents. — But prince Rupert, alas ! was an awkward lover 1 " II etoit brave 8c vaillant jusqu' a la temeritc. Son esprit etoit sujet a quelques travers, dont il eut ete bien fache de se corriger. II avoit le genie fecond en experiences de mathematiques, & quelqes talens pour lachimie. Poli jusqu' a I'exces, quand I'occasion ne le demandoit pas, fier, & meme brutal, quand il etoit question de s'humaniser. 11 etoit grand, & n'avoit que trop mauvais air. Son visage etoit sec & dur, lots meme qu'il vouloit le radoucir ; mais dans ses mauvaises humeurs, c'etoit une vraie physionomie de rcprouve." What pity that we who wish to transmit this prince's resemblance to posterity on a fairer canvas, have none of these inimitable colours to efface the harsher like- * Count HAMiLXONt ness ! CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 107 ness ! We can but oppose facts to wit, truth (o satire ; How unequal t'le pencils! Yet what these lines cannot do, tliey may suggest : they miy induce the reader to reflect, that if the prince was defective in the transient varnish of a court, he at least was adorned by the arts widi tliat poHsh, which alone can make a court attract the attention of subsequent ages. We must talvc up the prince in his laboratory, be- grimed, uncombed, perhaps in a dirty shirt; on the day I am going to mention he certainly had not sliaved and powdered to charm Miss Hughes ; for it happened in his retirement at Brussels, after the catastrophe of his uncle. * Going out early one morning, he observed the centinci at some distance from his post, very busy doing something to his piece. The prince asked what he was about ? He repHed, the dew had fallen in the mght, had made his fusil rusty, and that he was scraping and cleaning it. The prince, looking at it, was struck with something like a figure eaten into the barrel, with * This account Vcrtue received from Mr. Killigrev^r of Somerset- house, who had it from Evelyn. In the General Dictionary a MS. said to be drawn up by Mr. Evelyn himself, ascribes the invention to the soldier. Yet in Mr. Evelyn's printed account of the discovery he ex- pressly calls it, Invented by the prince. It is possible that the soldier might have observed the effect of scraping the rust from his piece, and yet have little thought of applying it, which probably was his higli- ness's idea. In the Parentalia the invention is ascribed to Sir Christo- pher Wren, who is there said to have communicated the discovery to t\K prince, p. 214. O 2 innii- 108 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. innumerable little holes closed together, like iriezed work on gold or silver, pan of which the fellow had scraped away. One knows what a mere good officer would have said on such an accident; if a fashionable officer, he might have damned the poor fellow, and given him a shilling ; butthe dnie feconden experiences from so trifling an accident conceived mezzotinto. The prince con- cluded that some contrivance might be found to cover a brass plate with such a grained ground of fine pressed holes, which would undoubtedly give an impression all black; and that by scraping away proper parts, the smooth superficies would leave the rest of the paper white. Communicating his idea to Wallerant Valliant, Ja^painter whom he maintained^they made several ex- periments ; and at last invented a steel roller, cut with tools to make teeth like a file or rasp, with projecting points, which effectually produced the black grounds ; those being scraped away and diminished at pleasure, left the gradations of light. The surprize occasioned by the novelty of the in- vention, by its softness, and union of parts, cannot better be expressed than in the words of Mr. Evelyn, whose abilities deserved the compliment paid to him by the prince, of being one of the first to whom this se- cret, or mystery, as they held it, was imparted; and who was so dazzled with the honour of the confidence, or with the curiosity of the new art, that after encou- raging the world to expect the communication, he checked CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 109 checked his bounty, and determined not to prostitute the arcanum, but to disclose it only to the elect. — Here *is his oracular description ; " It would appear a paradox to discourse to you of a graving without a graver, burin, point or aqua fortis ; and yet this is performed without the assistance of either : That what gives our most perlte and dextrous artists the grieatest trouble, and is longest finishing [for such are the hatches and deepest shadows in plates] should be here ths least considerable, and the most ex- peditious ; that, on the contrary, the lights should in this be the most laborious, and yet performed with the greatest facility : That what appears to be effected with so little curiosity, should yet so accurately resemble what is generally esteemed the very greatest ; viz. that a print should emulate even the best of drawings, chiaro e scuro, or, as the Italians term it, pieces of the mezzotinto, so as nothing either of Hugo da Carpi, or any of those other masters who pursued his attempt, and whose works we have already celebrated,^ have exceeded, or indeed approached ; especially, for that of portraits, figures, tender landscapes, and his- tory, &c. to which it seems most appropriate, and- applicable." Thus, as he owns, he leaves it enigmatical ; yet thinks he has said enough to give a hint to ingenious * SCWIPTURA, p. 146. persons no CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. persons how it is performed. — In truth, they must have been more ingenious even than the inventor hiniselt to have discovered any thing from such an indefinite riddle. One knows that ancient sages used to wrap up their doctrines, discoveries, or nonsense, in such unintelli- gible jargon ; and the baby world, who perferred being imposed upon to being taught, thought themselves ex- tremely obliged for being told any secret which they could not comprehend. They would be reckoned mountebanks in this age, who should pretend to in- struct without Informing : and one cannot help won- dering that so beneficent a nature as Mr. Evelyn's should juggle with mankind, when the inven(or himself had consented that the new art should be made public. Indeed, curious as the discovery was, it did not produce all it seemed to promise ; it has diversified prints, rather tiian improved tliem ; and though Smith, who carried tlie art to it's greatest height yet known, liad considerable merit, mezzotintos still fali short of fine engravings. But before the secret passed into his hands, it was improved by Blootcling, who found out the application of the chisel for laying grounds, which much exceeded the roller. George White afterwards made use of the graver for forming the black spots in eyes, and sharpening the light, which in preceding mezzotintos he observed had never been sufficiently distinct, Some have thought that the prince only improved on Rembrandt's manner in his prints, but there is no account CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. HI account of the latter making; use of a method at all like that practiced for mezzoiintos. pREFiXKD to Evelyn's account is a kind of Saracen's head performed by tluU prince, with his highness's mark thus, There is another of the same in large;' a man with a spear; and a woman's head looking down in an oval, no name to it. These are all his works in mezzotinto. Landscapes I think I have seen s6me etched by him; and in Jervaise's sale were some small figures drawn loosely with the pen on white paper; under them was written, Desslnati per il principe Ro- berio a Londra 23 Septembre. The earliest date of a mezzotinto that Virtue had seen was an oval head of Leopold William archduke of Austria, with this in- scription, Theodorus Casparus a Furstenburgh, cano- nicus, ad vivum pinxit & fecit 1656. This person had undoubtedly received the secret before his high- ness returned to. England. WALLERANT VAILLANT, Though a painter of some reputation, belongs to this work in the light only of engraver. He was born at Lisle, in 1623, but studied under Erasmus Ouellin at Antwerp, on leaving whose school he applied himself to portrait-painting ; and being advised to go to Franck- fort 1!2 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. fort against the coronation of the emperor Leopold, drew his picture with such success, that Vaillant soon found himself overwhelmed with business, till the Marechal de Grammont carried him to Paris, where in four years he found business enough to enrich him. He returned to Amsterdam and died there in 1677. At what period of his life he came to England does not appear, yet here he certainly was, and came with prince Rupert, who taught him the secret of mezzbtinto, Descamps says that this mystery, as it was then held, was stolen from Vaillant by the son of an old man who scraped the grounds of his plates for him. This might be one of the means of divulging the new art ; yet, as I shew in th*e life of Becket, he and Lutterel both learned the secret by other means. Vaillant also drew from the life in black and white. There is a mezzo- tinto, as I am informed, by him, of queen Henrietta Maria, sitting in a fringed chair, with a little girl rest- ing against her knees, and a young man leaning on the the back of the chair ; he has a ribband cross his shoul- der, the edges of which are a little fringed: The lady is at work. I have never seen this print, but it cor- responds so much with part of the picture of Sir Bal- thazar Gerbier's family by Vandyck, mentioned in the second volume of these Anecdotes, that I suspect the lady is not the queen, but Gerbier's wife. Mr, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 113 Mr, JOHN EVELYN. If Mr. Evelyn had not been an artist himself, as I think I can prove, I should yet have found it difficult to deny myself the pleasure of allotting him a place among the arts he loved, promoted, patronized; and it would be but justice to inscribe his name with due panegyric in these records, as I have once or twice taken upon me to criticize him : But they are trifling blemishes compared with his amiable virtues and bene- ficence; and it may be remarked that the worst I have said of him is, that he knew more than he always communicated. It is no unwelcome satire, to say that a man's intelligence and philosophy is inexhaustible. I mean not to write his life, which may be found de- tailed in the new edition of his Sculptura, in Collins's Baronetage, in the General Dictionary, and in the New Biographical Dictionary ; but I must observe that his life, which was extended to .86 years, was a course of inquiry, study, curiosity, instruction, and benevolence. The works of tbe Creator, and the mimic labours of the creature, were all objects of his pursuit. He unfolded the perfection of the one, and assisted the imperfections of the other. He adored from examination ; was a courtier that flattered only by in- forming his prince, and by pointing out what was worthy for him to countenance, and was really the neighbour P ' of 114 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. of the gospel, tor there was no man that might not have been the better for him. Whoever peruses a hst of his works, will subscribe to my assertion. He was one of the first promoters of the Royal Society, a patron of the ingenious and indigent, and peculia.rly serviceable to the lettered world ; for, besides his writings and disco- veries, he obtained the Arundclian marbles for the Uni- versity of Oxford, and the Arundelian Library for the Royal Society : Nor is it the least part of his praise, that he who proposed to Mr. Boyle the erection of a philosophic college, for retired and speculative persons, had the honesty to write in defence of active life, against Sir George Mackenzie's Essay on Solitude. * He knew that retirement in his own hands was industry and benefit to mankind ; but in those of others laziness and inutility. Vertue discovered that long before the apjiearance of Mr. Evelyn, his family had been engaged in what then were curious arts. In an ancient MS. in the Of- fice of Ordnance he found these entries, A patent for making salt-petre granted to George Evelyn and others, 1587. Powder-makers; Qeorge Evelyn, esq. of Wooton, in Surrey, 1587. Mr. John Evelyn ; Mr. Robert Eve- lyn ; Mr. George Evelyn, till the beginning of 1637. This was the more remarkable, as Evelyn lived in the shade of pl'ii- losophy ; Mackenzie was continually engaged in the bustle of business and fiercest violence of party. The. CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 115 The lady of our Mr. Evelyn had correspondent ta- lents ; fhe designed the froniispiece to his Essay on the first book of Lucretius.* But to come to the point which peculiarly intltles Mr. Evelyn to a place in these sheets. There are five small prints of his journey from Rome to Naples, which are generally supposed t to be etched by one Hoare, from Mr. Evelyn's drawings ; but a very ingenious and inquisitive :j:gentleman has convinced me that they are performed by his own hand. I cannot give the reader better satisfaction than by transcribing part of a letter which that gentleman was so obliging as to send me, and his modesty 1 hope will forgive the liberty I take with him. *' Copy of the title to Mr. John Evelyn's five prints lor his journey from Rome to Naples ; The inscription is engraved on the superficies of a large broken stone table, sustained by a little genius with wings, standing about the middle of the plate : On each side are views of the Roman antiquities, particu- larly on the left is seen the arch of Septimius Severus. Locorum aliquot insignium & celeberrimorum inter Romam & Neapolin jacentium vmh^sts et exemplaria * Hollar inscribed a head of Vandyck to Mr. Evelyn. + So the author of his life says, transcribed in the Biogr. Diet. The General Dictionary indeed calls them Mr. Evelyn's own engravings, which the following account will make clear. ^ Ml-. Nathaniel Hillier. P 2 Domino 116 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. ^ Domino Dom°. Thomae Hensheaw Anglo omnium €x- imiarum & praeclarissimarum artium cultori & p/opug- natori maximo et suvozj-^x[/.svu xuru fnon propter operis pretium, sed ut singulare amoris sui iestimonium ex- hibeat) primas has a^oK/^xay/W aqua iorti excusas 8c in- sculptas. Jo. Evelynus delineator ''^e, D. C. Q, The above is an exact copy of the tiiular Dedica- tion to Mr. Evelyn's five prints oi' his journey from Rome to Naples; and it is imagined that upon the face of the inscription there is a manifest appearance of Mr. Evelyn's being not only the designer, but also the en- graver, as well as the dedicator of the prints; notwith- standing the author of his life, prefixed to the new edi- tion of his Sculptura, says that they were engraved from his sketches by Hoare an artist of character at that time : for when we come to examine the prints, and find the title exactly conformable to the above copy, and that the five views themselves are all of them subscribed JE f. at the right hand corner, and no other notation CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 117 rotation at all concerning any designer, engraver, or publisher whatever (except the little R. Hoare excu. at the bottom of the title just as above described) one can hardly think otherwise than the author of Mr. Evelyn's life must have been misinformed ; and never have seen or carefully considered the inscription on the title de- dicatory, and the prints themselves. Beside* I should be glad to be informed how the author of Mr. Evel} n's life came to know that Hoare was an artist, or en- graver at all, and more especially one character at that time, since Mr. Evelyn himself has not inserted him among the eighteen English engravers whose praise he has celebrated, and whose names he has given us p. 91, of his Sculptura ; and though he tells us in p. 92, that there were some other English artists, who had merited with their graver, but were unknown to hini: by name; yet surely, of all others, the artist who had engraved his own designs, could not have been among that number, mofe especially if he had been an at list of character. Not to mention a particular circum- stance attending my set of prints in question, (which i have great reason to believe were one of the sets which Mr. Evelyn kept for himself] being superscribed with a pen and ink, my journey from Rome to Naples, and with a black lead pencil, sculpsit Johannes Evelynus Parisiis 1649. However it ought to be mentioned that the pen and ink, and the black lead do not appear to be of the same hand writing." The lis CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. The General Dictionary corroborates the great pro- bability of Mr. Evelyn engraving these views, by (Quoting more etchings by him, a view of his own seat at Wooton, and another of Putney ; and Thoresby in his Museum says expressly, p. 496, that the prints of the journey from Rome to Naples were done by Mr. Evelyn, who presented them to him, with his own head by Nanteuil. DAVID LOGGAN Was born at Dantziclc, and is said to have received some * Instructions from Simon Pass in Denmark. Passing through Holland he studied under Hondius, and came to England before the Restoration. Being at Oxford, and making a drawing for himself of AlU souls-college, he was taken notice of and desired to undertake plates of the public buildings in that Univer- sity ; which he executed, and by which he first distin- guished himself. He afterwards performed the same for Cambridge, but is said to have hurt his eye-sight in * Micn. Burghers told Vertue that he had Loggan's own head, done by himself, in black, lead, st. 20, 1655; [if so, he was boi'n in 2635] and knew of no other portrait of him ; but he certainly sat to Soest delineatirig CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 119 delineating the chapel of King's- College. He also en- graved on eleven folio copper plates Habitus Academi- corum Oxoniae a Doctore ad servientem. In the Re- gistry of Matriculation there is this entry, David Log- gan Gedanensis Universitatis Oxon. Clialcographus, July 9, 1672. He had a licence for fifteen years for vending his Oxonia lllustrata. He frequently drew heads in black lead, as Mr. *Ashmole's in 1677, and the lord-keeper North's at Wroxton ; and was one of the most considerable engravers of heads at that time. Dryden, satyrizing vain bards, says, And in the front of all his senseless plays Makes David Loggan crown his head wi^h bays, t He married Mrs. Jordan, of a good family near Witney in Oxfordshire, and left at least one son, who was fellow of Magdalen-college Oxford. David lived latterly in Leicester-fields, where he died 1693. ^ His portraits, as enumerated by Venue, are ; John Sparrow, 16^3. William Hickes, 1658. Charles II. without his name, and only with Fidei Defensor ; therefore probably done before the Restora- tion. Another in armour. * V. Ashmole's Diary, p. 58. ' + Art of Poetry, Canto 2d. j In another place Venue says in 1700. Another, 120 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Another,"^ leaning his hand on archbishop Sheldon ; at bottom, a small head Moncke. Another of the King. Queen Catherine. James jl^kc oF York, at length, garter robes. George duke of Albemarle, half-length in armour, done from the life by Loggan, and is one of his best works. Sir Edward Coke, iA Dugdale's Origines Judiciales. Edward carl of Clarendon, from the life, a fine head in the same book. Head of a divine; no name. English verses. Bishop Mew, from the life. Thomas Isham, from the life, but, as Vertue thought, engraved by Valck, + Robert Stafford, with the same circumstances. Archibald earl of Argyle, ditto. Isaac Barrow, ditto. Mother Louse of Louse-hall. This partly gained him his reputation at Oxford. Sprat bishop of Rochester. Reynolds bishop of Norwich. Ou. if not by T. Cecil? Archbishop Usher. * This is the frontispiece to Richard Atkins's Growth of Printing. + VERxbs says that Vandergutch, Loggan's disciple, told him that Loggan used long strokes' in expressing flesh; and that where faces appear dotted in his prints, ihey were executed by the persons he employed. Edward CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, )2l Edward Reynolds. A man's head, no name, 1660. A physician, do. aetat. 45. Supposed to be Dr. WilHs. Sir Henry Pope Blount, with only his initials and arms. Dr. Charleton, from the life. Ralph Bathurst, do. William Holder, do. Vertue thought the face by Vanderbank. Boyle archbishop of Armagh. Sir John Chardin, from the life. John Mayow. A youth in an oval, no name, but supposed an an- cestor of judge Holt. Arthur Jackson. James duke of Ormond, from the life. Sir Grevil Verney. Sir Edward Coke. John Bulfinch, printseller, from the life. Bishop Seth Ward, do. Lake bishop of Chichester. Crew bishop of Durham. Compton bishop of London. Meggot dean of Winchester. There is another of him by White. Lord-keeper Guildford, from the life, one of his best prints. Thomas Barlow, from the life. Q Thomas 122 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Thomas Fuller, 1661. A. Brorne, 1664. John Waliis. Pearson bishop of Chester, from the life. John Cockshut. The seven bishops, copied from White's plate for Loggan, by Vanderbank, who worked for him towards the end of his life. Duke of Ormond, in an oval. » James duke of Monmouth, young, in the robes of the garter. The handsomest print of him. James earl of Derby. Thomas Sanders. Flesshiere pinx. Richard Allestry, from the life. Gunning bishop of Ely. Mr. Waterhouse. Mr. Joshua Moone. Dr. Henry More, George Walker of Londonderry, Leonard Pluckenet, 1690. Archbishop Sancroft, from the life. Loyd bishop of St. Asaph. Queen Henrietta Maria. Frontispiece to a Common-prayer-book in folio, 1687, designed by John Bapt. Caspars, Titus Oates. Sir George Wharton, but no name, ast. 46. Another, 1657. George prince of Denmark, from the life. Pope CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 123 Pope Innocent XI. An emblematic print of Cromwell, at length, in armour. A. M. esq. fe. The Academy of Pleasure, 1665. Head of a man with a high-crowned hat. Frontispiece to Rea's Florist, something in the man- ner of Cornel. Galle. Frontispiece to Guidott's Thermae Britannicae. Loggan brought over with him Blooteling and Valck, whom I am going to mention. Vanderbank worked for him, and one Peter Williamson, of whom I find no account, but that Vertue thought the emblematic print of Cromwell, in the above list, might be done by him. ABRAHAM BLOOTELING Came from Holland in 1672 or 73, when the French invaded it, but staid not long, nor graved much here ; but did some plates and some mezzotintos that were ad- mired. Vertue says he received 30 guineas for etching a portrait of the duke of Norfolk. At Amsterdam, after he left England, he published Leonardo Augustino's Gems in i68«;, and etched all the plates. His por- traits are, Q 2 Prince 124 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. ^ i Prince Rupert, atter Lely, 1673. \ Edward earl of Sandwich, ditto, a head. ^ , Another, half length. Edward Stillingfleet, canon of St, ?mVs» : The same, with the inscription altered after he was j bishop of Worcester. 1 Anthony earl of Shaftesbury, sitting; one of his ; most scarce works. ■ Thomas earl of Danby, after Lely. { James duke o{ Monmouth. i Thomas Sydenham, after Mrs. Beale. i Henry duke of Norfolk, 1678, large. \ Jane duchess of Norfolk, ditto, Bruxelles, 1681. J. Wilkins, bishop of Chester, after Mrs. Beale. | Henry marquis of Worcester. An old man's head, profile ; etched. - i A boy's head with feathers in his cap, ditto, John Tillotson dean of Canterbury, fine. ■ Cecil Calvert lord Baltimore. Charles Howard earl of Carlisle. Admiral Tromp, 1676. Van Haren, done in Holland, 1680. GERARD VALCK Was Blooteling's servant, and then married his sister;' came with him from Holland, and returned with him,,; though; CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 125 though he sometimes worked for Loggan. Valck en- graved one of the finest prints we have : It is the fa- mous duchess of Mazarin, sitting in very loose attire, with one hand on an urn. There is a beautiful portrait of the same duchess in a turban, painted in Italy, at the duke of St. Alban's at Windsor. Vertue knew but three more of Valck's entire works ; Robert lord Brooke, done in 1678 ; John duke of Lauderdale, in ' robes of the garter, and an indifferent mezzotinto of Mrs. * Davis, after Lely. EDWARD LE DAVIS, Of Welsh extraction, was apprentice to Loggan, whose wife obliging him to follow her in livery, he ran away to France, and became a dealer in pictures; by which, on his return, he made a good fortune. He engraved, James duke of York ; a large head, with flowers round the oval. Bertram de Ashburnham, for Guillim's Heraldry. Duchess of Portsmouth, sitting. * There is another of her in small quarto, after Cooper. Valck assisted 'Schenk in publishing the large Dutch Atlas in s vols, folio, St. 126 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. St. Cecilia playing on a bass-viol, with boy-angels flying; probably done at Paris, after Vandyck. Mary princess of Orange, 1678. William prince of Orange. Both after Leiy. General Moncke. Stephen Monteage, 1675. Charles II. sitting; the face expunged afterwards, and re-placed with king William's. A Merry Andrew, after Francis Halls, graved in an odd manner. An Ecce Homo after Caracci, scarce. Charles duke of Richmond, a boy, after WIssing, 1672. LIGHTFOOT, Says Evelyn,* " hath a very curious graver, and spe- cial talent for the neatness of his stroke, little inferior to Wieriiix; and has published two or three Madonnas with some applause." I suppose he is the same person with William Lightfoot, a painter, mentioned in the third volume of this work. ^ * ScO LPTORA, p, 99. MICHAEL CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 127 MICHAEL BURGHERS Came to England soon after Louis XIV. took Utrecht, and settled at Oxford, where, besides several other things, he engraved the almanacs ; his first appeared in 1676, without his name. He made many small views of the new buildings at Queen's College, and drew an exact plan of the old chapel before it was pulled down. His other works were, Sir Thomas Bodley ; at the corners, heads of W. earl of Pembroke, archbishop Laud, Sir Kenelm Digby, and John Selden. Willianh Somner, the antiquary. Franciscus Junius, from Vandyck. A medal and reverse of William earl of Pembroke (who lived) in 1572. John Barefoot, letter-doctor to the University, i68x. Head of James II. in an almanac, 1686. Small Head of T. V. Sir Thomas Wyat. Antony Wood in a niche. King Alfred, from a MS. in the Bodleian-library. Archbishop Chichele, John Baliol. Devorguilla, his wife. William earl of Pembroke. Timothy Halton, provoft of Queen's-college, from the life. Dr. 123 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Dr. Wallis, 1699. Two of Dr. Ratcllffe. Sir Kenelm Digby. Archbishop Laud. John Selden.* A large face of Christ, done with one stroke, in the manner of Mellan. Many frontispieces for the Classics published at Oxford. Several views of houses for Dr. Plot's works, and for other books. Ditto for the English translation of Plutarch's Lives ; and probably the vignettes to the Catalogue Libr. MSS. in Anglia. PETER + VANDERBANK 7 Was born at Paris, and came to England ^3 with Gascar, the painter, about the year 1674. He married the sister of Mr. Forester, a gentleman who had an estate at Bradfield in Hertfordshire, Vander- * The heads of Digby, Pembroke, Laud and Sclden are the same I have mentioned at the corners of Sir T. Bodlcy's print. + He sametimes wrote his name Vandrebanc. banJc CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 12a bank was soon admired for the softness of his prints, and still more for the size of them, some of his heads being the largest that had then appeared in England, But this very merit undid him ; the time employed on such considerable works was by no means compensated in the price. He was reduced to want, and retiring to his brother-in-law, died at Bradfield, and was buried in the church- there in 1697. A^ier his death, his wi- dow disposed of his plates to one Brow'n, a printseller, who made great advantage of them, and left an easy- fortune. Vanderbank had three sons, the eldest had some share in the theatre at Dublin. The youngest, William, a poor labourer, gave this account to Vertue. In the family of Forester was a portrait of the father* by Knellerj and of the eldest son. Vanderbank's prints, Charles II. in garter robes, Gascar pinx. 1675. Do. 1677, two feet four inches high, by two feet wide. James II. large sheet, Kneller p. Mary his queen, ditto. Another, after Wissing. Kino- William, after Kneller. Another, after Wsssing. Queen Mary, after the same. Prince George of Denmark. Princess Anne. Louis Quatorze, large head. Statue of Charles II. in the Royal Exchange. Archbishop Tillotson, after Mrs. Beale ; the face was rubbed out and re-engraved by R, White. R Arch- 130 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Archbishop Tenison, after Mrs. Beale, 1695. Prince George of Denmark, folio sheet. Princess Anne, at length. Princess Mary, ditto. Thomas earl of Ossory, large head. Alexander earl of Moray, 1686. George Viscount Tarbatt, 1692. Sir William Temple, after Leiy, 1679. John Smith, writing-master, Faithorne delin. V er- tue says a great contest happened about the payment for this fine head. James earl of Perth, 1683. Thomas Lamplugh archbishop of York ; one of the finest of his works. George Walker, who defended Londonderry. Thomas Dalziel, a Scotch General, scarce. John Locke, in a perriwig. Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. Another, smaller. Edmund Waller aeu 23. Another, aet. 76. Sir Thomas Allen, very large. James duke of Monmouth, ditto. Richard lord Maitland, 1683, William lord Russel, aiter Kneiler, Lady Litchfield. Verelst pinx. Sir George Mackensie. Henry More, Loggan delin. It has not Vander- bank's name. Archibald CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Archibald earl of Argyle. Frederick duke ot Schomberg. Young man's head, Fide & fiducla, Riley pinx. John Cotton Bruce, very large, Robert earl of Yarmouth, ditto. Sir Thomas Brown, M. D. Head of a Scotch gentleman, altered to the earl of Marr. Hassel pinx, John earl of Strathnaver ; i. e. J. earl of Sutherland, who died about 1734. William duke of Queensberry. William duke of Hamilton. . George lord Dartmouth. His own head. Samuel Wood.* Vanderbank engraved a set of heads for Kennet's History of England, they were designed by Luiterel. Vanderbank executed from the conqueror to queen Elizabeth; the rest were finished by M. Vander- gutch. He also graved after Verrio's paintings at Windsor, and some other histories, and did some plates which have his name, in Tijon's Book of Iron-works. He appears too to have had some concern in a manufacture * I AM Informed that this head of Wood could not be done by P. Vanderbank the elder, Wood's arm being torn off in r^if. See Phil. Trans, for 1 738. As I find no account of his second son, hi» name was probably Peter, and he might be an engraver, R 2 of CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 152 of tapestry ; in the duke of Ancaster's sale was a suite of tapestry with Vanderbank's name to it. NICHOLAS YEATES and JOHN COLLINS, 1 Two obscure engravers, whom Vertue men, * ^3 tlons together for these plates, Sir William Waller, ob. 1669. Embassadors from Bantam, H. Peart, pictor, printed 1682, large folio. Leonard Plukenet, M. D. Collin sculp. 1681- Oliver Plunkenet, archbishop, ob. i68i. Collins Bruxell. sculp. I find the name of R. Collins, jun. to a print, done by him from the life, of Francis Peck, the anticjuary, born 1692. V. Ames, p. 13^. WILLIAM CLARKE PiD a head of George duke of Albemarle, froiri a painting of Barlow, and another of John Shower, from a picture of his own ; the latter is a small mezzo- tinto. JOHN CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 135 JOHN CLARKE J) Was an 'engraver at Edinburgh, where he ^ did mo profile heads in medal of William and Mar)-, prince ^nd princess of Orange, yet dated 1690; and prints of Sir Matthew Hale, of George Baron de Goeriz (this was in concert with Pine} of Dr. Humphrey Prideaux, and a plate with seven little heads of ChailrsII. and his queen, prince Rupert, prince of Orange, duke of York, duke of Monmouth, and general Moncke. There was another John Clarke, who lived in Gray's Inn ; he engraved a quarto print of Rubens, and, probably, the plates for Bundy's trans- lation of Catrou, and Rouille's Roman History, and the vignettes for lord Lansdowne's works. Gerard and Robert Vandergutch were also employed for the latter book. R. TOMPSON, A N AME to a print of Nel Gwynne and her two sons, and to a few others. Though he only puts excudit on his plates, and on those sold by Alexarider Brown, hc.^ probably scraped them. Brown, besides his mezzo- tintos, 134 CATALOGUE OF EXGRAVERS. tintos, engi-aved the plates to his Art of Painting, i66g. See Payne Fisher's verses prefixed fo that work. Brown's plates, in that piece, are chiefly copied from Bloemart's drawing-book. Trevethan is mentioned by Sanderson, but I know none of his works. To a print of bishop Russel is said, Thomas Dudley Angkis fecit 1679. PAUL VANSOMER, r ' ) Another artist of no great fame, whom 1 1070 > ) give to compleat the list, and as I find them ; not confining myself strictly to dates, which would be difficult to adjust, when there were so many of the pro- fession about the same period. Vansomer at first ex- ecuted many plates, both graved and in mezzotlnto, after the works ot Lely ; his drawings were commonly made in two * colours by Caspar Baptist, and sometimes by Lemens ; and he was so expeditious as to finish a half-length plate in a summer's day — sufficient reason for me not to specify all his works. Before he arrived * Mr. Scott, in Crown Court, Westminster, has a copy In two colours in oil by Vansomer himselfj the last supper after Poussin; very freely done. here, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. here, he had performed a print of Charles duke of Bavaria, and his secretary, in 1670. His mark was thus* Another print was of a countess of Meath, after Mignard ; and a third of the duke of Florence and his secretary. Towards the end of his time the art was sunk very low : Vertue says that about the year 1690 Verrio, Cooke and Laguerre, could find no better persons to engrave their designs than" S. Gri- belin and Paul Vansomer — he might in justice have added that the engravers were good enough tor the painters ; and in J 702 that J. Smith was forced to ex- ecute, in mezzotinto, the frontispiece to signor Nicolo Cosimo's book of music. But before we come to that period we have one or two more to mention, and one a good artist : ROBERT WHITE Was born in London 1645, and had a natural inclina- tion to drawing and etching, which he attempted before he had any instructions from Loggan, of whom he learned, and for whom he drew and engraved many ♦ A« Vertuc sometimes calls him Paul, and sometimes John Van- komer, I conclude they were different persons, and that this maik belonged to the latter. buildings. 13G CATALOGUE OF ENGH AVERS. buildinnrs. What distinguished him was his admirable success in Hkenesses, a merit that would give value to his prints, though they were not so well performed. Many of his heads were taken by himself wiih a bl ick lead pencil on velom : Mr. West has several, pa- ticu- cularly his own head at the age of sixteen : Vertue thouglit them superior to his prints. The heads of Sir Godfrey Kneller and his brother in Sandrart were en- graved from drawings by White, whose portrait Sir Godfrey drew in return. Many of the portraits in Sandford's curious coronation of James II. were done from the life, as Vertue thought, by White. In 1674 he graved the first Oxford Almanac, as he did the title* plate designed by Adr. Hennin to the History and An- tiquities of that University. He also engraved Moncke's funeral. For a plate of the king of Sweden he re- ceived 30/. from one Mr. Sowters of Eseter. Of his own works he made no regular collection ; but, when he had done a plate, lie rolled up two or three proofs, and flung them into a closet, where they laid in heaps. Thus employed, for forty years together, he saved about four or five thousand pounds ; and yet, by some mis- fortune or waste at last, he died* in indigent circum- stances ; and his plates, being sold to a piintseller in the Poultry, + enriched the purchaser in a few years. * He died suddenly at his hou'ie iii Eloomsbury, in 1704. + Vertue says the same success attended Cooper and Bowles, print- tellers: a profession which Vertue thought, very justly, did notdescrvi; to thrive beyond the laborious artists whom they employed. As CAtALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 197 As no man perhaps has exceeded Robert White in the multiplicity of English' heads, it maybe difficult to give a compleat catalogue of them ; yet, as my author had formed a long list, it would be defrauding curious col- lectors if I refused to transcribe it ; one would not grudge a few hours more, after the many that have been thrown iiway on these idle volumes. I seem to myself a door-keeper at the Temple of Fame, taking a catalogue of those who have only attempted to enter. Edward the Black Prince, in an oval. Ditto in armour, at length. Edward IV. without a name, arms, or inscription. It was done for the Faedera, and placed at the reign of Henry V. but Rymer doubting if it was that king, the name was omitted; Rapin finding it there, had it co- pied for his first French edition. It is a profile from the whole length at St. James's, which has since ap* peared by Vanderdort's catalogue to be Edward IV. by Belcamp : There is also a wooden cut done temp. Eliz. which agrees with Vanderdort's account. Charles I. after Van Vorst. Charles II. large head, 1679. Ditto, whole length, in robes of the garter. Queen Anne, 1703, poorly done. Queen Elizabeth sitting under a canopy. The three first Edwards, and Richard II. for Brady's History of England, James II. under a canopy, with Sancroft and Jef- Feries. S Another 138 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Another when duke of York, garter-robes. Another, large head, 1682. The same, altered when king. Mary of Este, duchess of York. Another, whole length. Henry duke of Gloucester, whole length. King William and queen Mary, prefixed to Cox's History of Ireland. Two dukes of Hamilton, in Burnet's Memoirs of that family. George earl of Cumberland, dressed as for a tour- nament, a beautiful print. Lady Mary Joliflfe. Nine small heads of the family of Rawdon. Thoresby says they were done for a MS. account of that family. I have eight of these cuts. Robert Morrison, M, D. Richard Meggot, dean of Winchester. ^ Thomas duke of Leeds, ad vivum. Heneage, earl of Nottingham. Seven lords justices in 1695. One plate. Sir Edward Ward, chief baron, 1702. Sir George Treby, ad vivum, 1694. Patrick, earl of Strathmore, 1686. Sir John Somers, lord keeper, 1693. William Salmon, M. D. 1700. Five bishops, martyrs. One plate. Nathaniel Vincent, 1694. Everard Maynwaringe, M. D. Ezekiah CATALOGUE OF ENGRAViERS. 139 Ezekiah Burton, after Mrs. Beale. , Two of John Partridge. Sir George Ent, M. D. Two of Samuel Pepys, of his best graving. «Rf^ Two of Sir WilHam Temple. Joseph Perkins, A. B. Cole, a physician. His name is only mentioned in two Latin verses under the head. Robert South, S. T. P. Dr. Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester. John Bunyan. Two of Sir Roger Lestrange. Henry Purcel, after Closterman. Count Konismark. Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely. Two of Antony, earl of Shaftsbury. George, carl of Melvil. Sir John Medina p. James, earl of Perth, after Kneller. Another, after Riley, titles in French. This is reckoned one of White's best. Of this lord there are prints by Faithorne, Vanderbank and White. The seven bishops, in one plate. A gentleman, full-bottomed wig, arms, no name. Archbishop Tenison, from the life. William Camden, ast. 58. * FoPv this plate he received four pounds, which feems to have been his most common price, as appeared by the receipt-book of Chiswcll, bookseller in St. Paul's church-yard. For the print of Queen Mary, done in 16g|) White had four pounds ten ihillings. S 8 John 140 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, John Owen, D, D. Mary countess dowager of Warwick. Sir Alexander Temple ) f In habits of the time of Jjrnci I, Susanna lady Temple ) Lord chancellor Clarendon, after Lely, John, earl of Rochester. John, duke of Newcastle. Robert Leighton, S. T. P, aelat. 46. James Cooke, M. D. George Hickes, S. T. P. from the life, 1703, one of his last works. There is another earlier. Bishop Burnet, after Mrs. Beale. Another, from the life. Queen Mary of Este, Thomas Street, judge, from the Ufe. John Ashton, gent, after Riley. Mr. Fleetwood, from the life. Benjamin Whitchot, S. T. P. A clergyman, in his own dark hair, A young gentleman, in full-bottomed wig, laced cra- vat ; said to be Mr. Benj. Hewling. Sir Edward Lutwyche, serjeant at law. Sir Thornas Pilkingion, lord mayor. Sir Peyton Ventris, judge, 1691, Sir Creswell Levinz, judge, John Overall, bishop of Norwich. Thomas Creech, M. Sunman pinx. Thomas Gouge, after Riley. James ^onnql, escj. Roberi CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 141 Robert, earl of Ailesbury. John How, V. D. M. Dr. Antony Korneck, after Mrs. Beale, Vera effigies Veniuri Mandey, aetat. 37, 1682. Thomas Fiatman, Kay Is pinx. Sir John Cotton, 1699. Mr. Parker of Lees, Hebrew motto and arms, but Ko name, Mr. Joseph Moone. Four different plates of archbishop Tillotson, John Wilkins, bishop of Chester, Three of William Bates, S. T. P, William Walwyn, aetat. 80. Archbishop Sancroft, Dr. Busby, ob. 1695. John Fryer, M. D. from the life. Samuel Craddock, B. D. William Eluck, esq. George Buchanan, The lady Anne Clifford, countess dowager of Dor. jpet and Pembroke. William Petyt, from the life, Sir James Turner. Sir Robert Howard, Dr. John Blow, from the life. Thomas Manton, D. D. John Boccace, from Titian. Thomas Thynne, Esq. ]H[enry Wharton, A. M. after Tiispn. Cardii?a^ 142 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Cardinal Pole. Sir Thomas Went worth, earl of Strafford. Sir George JefFeries, lord chief justice. The same, altered all but the face. Sir John Holt, lord chief justice. Thomas Tryon, gent. 1703. Effigies Authoris [Burnet of the Charter-house.J Edmund King, M. D. There is another print of him, in mezzotinto, by R, Williams ; both are fine. Sir Henry Spelman. Sir George Mackensie, well engraved. Denzill lord Holies, of Ifield, The honourable Robert Boyle. Sir John Hoskins, a bust on a pedestal, no name of engraver. Anthony Tuckney, D. D. John Scott, S. T. P. John Aylmer, bishop of London, Edmund Ludlow, lieutenant general. John Flavel, 1680. Samuel Hawonh, M. D. Philomusus, S. G. in cypher. It is Samuel Gilbert, author of the Florist's Vade Mecum. William Sherlock, dean of St. Paul's. Catherine oi Airagon, for Burnett's History of the Jleformation. Robert Johnson, astat. 44. William Cockburn, M. D, John Shower, 1700. William CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 143 William Hunt, astat. 28. Mr. Georsre Herbert, author of Poems. A writing-master looking over his right shoulder, in his hair, laced cravat, no name. Mary queen of Scots. Prince Lewis of Baden. Neophylus archbishop of Philippopolis, 1702. Baron de Ginckle, afterwards earl of Athlone. Sir John Marsham, aet. 80. Sir Richard Levett, lord-mayor. Archbishop Usher, White's name not to it, done by Tyrril. 1683. Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, president of the court of session, poorly done from a good drawing, in India ink, by David Paton, in the possession of Sir David Dalrymple. Henry Coley, Philomath. Joseph Caryl. Thomas Creech, Sunman p. Sir Philip Warwick, after Lely. John Edwards, S. T. B. from the life. Monsieur de St. Evremont. Mordecai Abbot, esq. Richardson p. Dr. John Owen, some impressions have not his name. Daniel Colwall, 1681. Samuel Slater, 1692. Sir Thomas Brown, M. D. Five Kentish gentlemen, petitioners, one plate. Dr. 144 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Dr. Joseph Beaumont, master of Peter-house> Lord chief justice Coke. John Sharp, archbishop of York. Timothy Cruso, V. D. M. John Sowtcr, merchant of Exeter; he had beeh in Sweden, and bespoke the plate of the king of Sweden mentioned above. Sir John Nisbet, of Dirleton, one of the senators of the college of justice in Scotland. Archibald first duke of Argyle, titles in Latin. Queen Mary II. done after her death. John Selden. Countess of Arundel, in mezzotlnto, the only print he did in that way.* Sir Tomas Nott, from the life. Prince Rupert, after Kneller. Walter Chetwynd, esq. from the life. Sir John Fenwick, after Wissing. Thomas Deane of Freefolk. James II. star and garter crowned. James Cooke, M. D. aetat. 64. Another, astat. 71. William Leybourn, from the life. Fol. 2. Another, quarto. Edward Hatton, M. D. John Rawlett, B. D. • So Vcrtue thought, but there it another of Dr. BriggS- Sir CATALOGtlE OF ENGRAVERS. Sir GeofFry Palmer, attorne)'-general. Sir Herbert Perrot, Jeremy Collier, 1701. William fiurkit, A. M. 1703. Archbishop Sharpe. Charles III. king oi Spain, begun by R. White, just before his death, finished by his son G. White, whose name is to it. Sir Edward Dering, 1687. Patrick earl of Marchmont. John Harris, D. D. begun by the father, and finished by the son, Thomas Weston, writing-master. A man's head, 1677, with the iigns of tlie zodiac round him. Frederic Augustus king of Poland, 1696. Charles XI. king of Sweden, 1683. Alexander Carencross, bisliop af Glasgow. Reverend Matthew Pole. Crescentius Mather, S. T. P. A man's head, in a laced cap, long beard ; said to bt Sir Alexander Gibson, of JDurle, one af the ^senators of the college of justice in Scotland; Sir Patrick Lyon, from the life. Bibye Lake and Mary Lake, o«al heads, inonepbte. Robert Sparke, B. D. John Vaughan, chief justice of tthe xommon pleas. 'John Brown, surgeon. A bishop's head, [doctor Taylor.j T Captain CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Joshua Barnes, Greek inscription. Captain William Bedloe. Mrs. Aphra Behn. Richard Baxter, aetat. ^5. Sir Robert Cotton. David Clarkson, minister, after Mrs. Beal Samuel Clarke, from the life. John Cleveland, without White's name. Stephen Charnock, B. D. William Cookson. John Collins, S. T. P. Prance and Dugdale, two plates. Elias Keach. Captain Robert Knox. Daniel Kendrick, physician. George Moncke, duke of Albemarlc» Richard Morton, M. D. Milton, after Faithorne'^s print. Sir John Pettus. Sir Paul Ricaut. John Rushworth, esq. George Stradling, S. T. P. James II. with his dying expressions. John Lightfoot, S. T. P. Thomas Willis, M. D. Rev. Philip Henry. Sir William Ashurst, lord-mayor. Mr. Edmund Trench, Sir Robert Wright,, lord chief justice. CATALOGtJE OF ENGRAVERS. 14/ Sir Nathan Wright, lord-keeper. Thomas Wadsworth, M. A. Archbishop Whitgift. James Janeway, without White's name. Thomas Barlow, bishop of Lincohi. The seven counsellors for the seven bishops. Princess Anne of Denmark. Two of John Ayres, A gentleman, haii-length, laced ruff, black habit, white gloves in his right hand ; in his left, cloak and sword. > Another in a long wig, with a death's head. A man's head, the other part a skeleton. Another in a long wig and laced cravat, place left for arms ; without White's name. Another, in his hair, broad band, cloak, in his right hand a book, other books behind. GEORGE WHITE, Son of Robert, finished some of his father's plates, and engraved others himself ; but chiefly practised in mezzotinto, in which be succeeded, and had sometimes twenty guineas for a plate. His best, I think, are of Sir Richard Blackmore, and Sylvester Petyt ; the latter remarkably fine. He also painted in oil, and more fre- quently in miniature. One of his first large heads, in his father's manner, was of James Gardiner, bishop of T 2 Lincoln, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Lincoln. He was alive so late as the year 1731, when a print by him of bishop Weston is dated. ARTHUR SOLY J683? Was much employed by Robert White, ) who drew his head in black lead, which was engraved in 1683. Himself did prints of Richard Baxter and Tobias Crsip. HAMLET WINSTANLEY. Learned to draw under the Knellers, being designed for a painter, and from thence went to Italy; but, on his return seems to have addicted himself to engraving. He etched and published the earl of Derby's collection of pictures, as his father Henry had done, several views of Audley.inn, which he dedicated to James H. that building building being then a *royal palace : he added • It had been purchased by the crown, but much of the money not being paid, king William returned it to the family i but bought as ^ much CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 149 added too an inscription in honour of .Sir Chnstopher Wren. This set of prints is veiy scarce ; the pJat , . -o ) chymist, 1001. ISAAC OLIVER, A NAME that can never be omitted, when it occurs in any branch of the arts, was, I suppose, the same person with the glass-painter, whom I have mentioned in my second volume, and is found to two prints; the first, of James II. the other of lord chancellor JefFeries, who is there stiled earl of Flint; a title which none of our his- torians mention to have been given to, or designed for him. • This article is not in its proper period of time, as relating to the son. but rightly placed with regard to the father. In a former edition ! . ^ad confounded them together. JOHN CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS, 131 1691 I JOHN DRAPENTIERE Etched prints of Benjamin Keach, Daniel Burgess, 1691, Sir Ja;iies Dyer, and J. Todd. WILLIAM ELDER Was cotemporary witli Robert White ; and a Scotch- man. Venue had seen some writing graved by him in a book in 1681. He made a print oi" himself in a fur cap, and another in a wig. His best work was a print of Ben Johnson. His other things are, heads of Pytha- goras ; Dr. Mayern ; John Ray ; Dr. Morton ; arch- bishop Sancroft ; George Parker ; Charles Snell, writ" ing-master ; admiral Russel ; and judge Pollexfen, JOHN STURT Was born April 6, 16,58, and at the age of seventeen was put apprentice to Robert White, and did several prints, but of no great merit. However he was ex- ceedingly 152 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. ceedingly admired by Mr. Thoresby,* who in his mu- seum had the Lord's prayer engraved by Sturt, in the compass of a silver penny ; the ten commandments, &c. in the size of a medal ; and the gospel of St. Matthew engraved in octavo. Sturt's capital work was his Com- rhon-prayer-book, published by subscription in 1717 ' it is all engraven very neatly, on silver plates, in two columns, with borders round each plate ; small histories at top, and initial letters. It is a large octavo, and con- tains one hundred and sixty-six plates, besides twenty- two at the beginning ; which consist oi the dedication, table, preface, calendar, names of subscribers, &c. Pre- fixed is a bust of George I. in a round ; and facing it those of the prince and princess of Wales. On the king's bust are engraven the Lord's prayer, creed, com- mandments, pTayers for the royal family, and the 21st •psalm, but so small as not to be legible without a mag- nifying glass. He also engraved a Companion to the Altar, on plates of the same size, and a set of fifty-five historic cuts, for the Common- pray^er-book, in small octavo. He copied faithfully, as may be seen by the . English translation of Pozzo's Perspective, published by James, in folio. Sturt, grown old and poor, had a place offered him in the charter-house, which he re- fused; and died Shout the age of seventy-two. He had • Ducat. Leod. 498, 513. Mr. Thoresby mentions two other engravers, Mr. Robert Jackson, ami Mr. Francit firagge. received CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 13S received near 500/. of Mr, James Anderson, of Edin- burgh, to grave plates for his fine book of Scottish Re- cords, &c. but did not live to compleat them. Mr. LUTTERELL Was bred at New-inn, but having a disposition to draw- ing, took to crayons and abandoned the law. Having a mechanic head, and observing the applause given to the new art of roezzotinto, he set himself to discover the secret, for so it v/as still kept. His first invention for laying the grounds was by a roller, which succeded pretty well, but not to his content ; that method being neither so sharp nor calling as the true way. Upon this he persuaded his friend Lloyd, who kept a print-shop in Salisbury- ftrect, in the Strand, to bribe one Blois, who used to lay grounds for Blooteling, and was then going to Holland, to discover the mystery. The pro- fits were to be divided ; Lutterel scraping, and Lloyd selling the prints. Forty shillings purchased the secret ; but, when purchased, Lloyd would not communicate it to Lutterel, on which they quarrelled. In the Interim U ISAAC I5i CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. ISAAC BECKET* Then apprentice to a callico-prlnter, visiting Lutterel, caught the passion of learning mezzotinto ; and hearing that Lloyd was possessed of the secret, and being forced to absent himself from his business, upon an intrigue, had recourse to Llovd ; who, though master of the ar- canum, was not capable of putting it in execution. Becket offered his service, was instructed in the use of the chisel, and entered into articles of working for Lloyd, Lutterel, in the mean time, pursued his old method ; and published a print of a woman blowing out a candle backwards, which sold mightily. Soon after he got acquainted with Vansomer, and from him learned the whole process. Becket fell again into the same trouble, and, Lutterel assisting him, they became in- timate; but Becket, marrying a woman of fortune, set up for himself, and Lutterel did many heads for him, being more expeditious and drawing better than Becket ; but they were often finished by the latter. Lutterel's best print was a portrait of Le Piper, the painter ; few of his works have his name to them. He was the first that laid grounds on copper t for crayons, a method af- * Born m Kent, 1653. + Some of Liutercl's works, ia this manner, are in queen Cairollne's closet, at Kensington. ter-wards CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 155 terwards practised by Faithorne. ~ One of Becket's best is a print of a lady Williams, whole length. I have run these lives into one another, finding them blended by Yertuc, and naturally connected. I HAVE now carried this work down to the year 1700. If the art did not make great Improvements af- ter that period, at least it was enlarged, and not so re- stri£ied 10 portraits. Historic subjects came into vogue too. If no great matter was performed, that age did not deserve so much reproach as we do. Few good pictures were then imported. How many noble col- lections have been formed since, and yet how few prints appear of intrinsic merit! I have mentioned those of Mr. Strange, which are worthy of any country, and of the masters he has imitated. Mac Ardell has done a few in mezzotinto, that show what that branch is capable of; but our collections are still far from being exhausted: and yet I do not forget how many beautiful landscapes of Claud Lorrain, and Gaspar Poussin, we owe to the late Mr. Pond. Nor is this wholly the fault of artists; if the public would neglect whatever is not worthv of their country, and of its riches ; nor pay great prices for hasty performances, it is not credible that we can want either the genius or industry of the French, though hitherto their prints, in general, are as much better than ours, as their prices are more rea- sonable. Xhe end of king William's reign was illustrated by 3. genius of singular merit in his way. T 2 Mr. IS€ CATALOGUE OF EMGRAVERS. Mr. JOHN SMLTH. iTHE best mezzotinter that lias appeared, who united softness with strength, and finishing with freedom. To posterity, perhaps, his prints will carry an idea of something burlesque ; perukes ot out- rageous length, flowing over suits of armour, compose wonderful habits. It is equally strange, ihat fashion could introduce the one, and establish the practice ot representing the other, when it was out of fashion. Smith excelled in exhibiting both as he found them in the portraits of Kneller, who was less happy in what he substituted to armour. In the kit-cat-club, he has poured full-bottoms chiefly over night-gowns: if those streams of hair were incommode in a battle, I know nothing they were adapted to, that can be done in a night-gown. I find little account of Smith's life, except that he served his time with one Tillet, a painter in Moorfields, and that as soon as he became his own master, he ap- plied to Becket, and learned from him the secret of mezzotinto; and, being farther instructed by *Vander V'aart, was taken to work in Sir Godfrey's house ; and, as he was to be the publisher of that master's works, no doubt received considerable hints from him, which ♦ SxE an account of Vandcr Vaart in the third volume of this work. he CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 157 ft he amply re-'paid. Vertue, who was less diligent In his inquiries after the works of mezzoiiiuers, has left no regular catalogue of Smith's works ; lior, as they are so common, shall I attempt one. This list is already swelled to too large a size; and I shall foibear parti- cularizing the prints ol those that are to follow, which being of so fresh a date cannot be scarce. Smith had composed two large volumes, with proofs of his own plates, which I have seeTi in his hands ; he asked ,50/. for them: what became of them 1 know not.* His finest works are, duke Schomberg on horseback ; that duke's son and successor, Maynhard ; the carls of Pem- broke, Dorset, and Albemarle ; three plates, with two figures in each, of young persons or children, in which he shone ; William Austruther ; Thomas Gill ; Wil- liam Cowper; Gibbons and his wife; queen Anne; duke of Gloucester, whole length, with a flower-pot; duke of Ormond ; a very curious one of queen Mary in a high head, fan and gloves ; earl of Godolphin ; the duchess ol Ormond, whole length, with a black; and Sir George Rooke. There is a piint by him of James II. with an anchor, but no inscription^; which, not beihg finished when the king went away, is so scarce, that I have known it sold fur above a guinea. Besides poitraits, Smith performed many historic pieces, $is the Loves of the Gods, from Titian, at Blenheim, 1 AM told they were in the possession of Mr. Spencer, miniatute- ^intcr, and are now iu his widow's. 10 158 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. in ten plates ; Venus standing in a shell, from a picture by Coriegio, that was at Buckingham-house ; Venus and Cupid on a couch, a Satyr and woman, after Lucca Jordano ; and many more, of which perhaps the most delicate is a Holy Family, with angels, after Carlo M-a- ratti. There is a print of himself, after Sir Godtiey Kneiler. SIMON GRIBELIN P Was born at Blois in 1661, and came to 1707 r ' ' ' ) England about 1680; but it was above twenty years before he was noticed. The first work that raised bis reputation was the tent of Darius, published in 1707. This was followed by a set of Cartoons ; their success was very gieat, having never been completely engraved before ; but they were in too small a volume, nor had Gribelin any thing of greatness in his manner or capa- city: His works have no more merit than finicalness, and that not in perfection, can give them. He aher- terwards published' six historic pieces, from pictures in tbe royal collection at Kensington, and the cieling of the banqueting-house ; but none of his plates give any idea of the style of the masters they copied. His prints, at best, are neat memorandums He executed a great CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 159 a great number of small plates on gold, silver and cop- per; chiefly for books, but was fittest to engrave pat- terns for goldsmith's work. I have a thick quarto col- lected by himself, of all his small plates, which was sold by his son after his decease ; which happened, without any previous sickness, in Long acre. He caught cold by going to see the king in the house of lords ; fell ill that night, continued so next day, and died the third, aged 72. He left a son and daughter : The son graved in his father's manner, and went to Turkey in the re* linue of the earl of Kinnoul, to draw prospects, but returned in about two years. Gribelin, the father, en- graved soine portraits ; as duke Schomberg, Sir Wil- liam Ddwes, and a small whole length of the earl of Shaftsbury for the characteristics. Sir NICHOLAS DORIGNY. Born in France, was son of Michael Dorigny, by a daughter of Vouet, the painter. His father dying while he was very young, he was brought up to the study of the law, which he pursued till about thirty years of age; when being examined, in order to be ad- mitted to plead, the judge finding him very difficult of healing, advised him to relinquish a profession, to which UO CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. which one of his senses was so ill adapted, He took I the advice, and having a brother a painter at Rome, j determine^ to embrace the same occupation; and shuf! himself up for a year to practise drawing, for which he i probably had better talents than for the law ; since he \ could sufficiently ground himself in the latter in a ■ twelvemonth. Repairing to Rome, and receiving in- i stnictions from his brother, he followed painting for i some years ; when, having acquired great freedom of ; hand, he was advised to try etching. Being of a flexile 1 disposition, or uncommonly observant of advice, he \ turned to etching, and practised that for some more ^ years ; when, looking into the works of Audran, he ] found he had been in a wrong method, and took up the i manner of the latter, which he pursued for ten years — i we are at least got to the fiftieth year of his age, if j Vertue's memory or his own did not fail him, for | Vertue received this account from himself. He had '. now done many plates, and lastly the gallery of Cupid \ and Psyche after Raphael — when a new difficulty struck | him. Not having learned the handling and right use of : the graver, he despaired of attaining the harmony and | perfection at which he aimed — and at once abandoning | engraving he returned to his pencils — a word from a | friend would have thrown him back to the law — how- | ever, after two months, he was persuaded to apply to j the graver ; and, receiving some hints from one that j jjsed to engrave the writing under his plates, he con- i quered that difficulty too, and began with a set of planets. | Mercury* : CATALOGUE OF KN0RAVER9. 191 "Mercury, his first, succeeded so well, that he engraved four large pictures with oval tops, and from thence pro- ceeded to Raphael's transfiguration, which raised his xepulation above all the masters of thai time. ) At Rome he became known to several * ^ Englishmen of rank, who persuaded him to come to England and engrave the Cartoons. He arrived in June, i/n, but did not begin his drawings till the Easter following, the intervening time being spent in raising a fund for his work. At first it was proposed that the plates should be engraven at the queen's ex- pence ; and to be given as presents to the nobility, fo- reign princes, and ministers. Lord-treasurer Oxford was much his frieftd ; but Dorigny demanding four or five thousand pounds, put a stop to that plan ; yet the queen gave him an apartment at Hamptcm- court, with necessary perquisites. The work however was undertaken by subscription at four guineas a set. Yet the labour seeming too heavy for one hand, Dorigny sent to Paris for assist- ance, who wer« Charles Dupuis and*jdubosc, who dif- fered with him in two or three years, before the plates were more than half done. What relates farther to those engravers will follow hereafter. April i, 1719' Sir Nicholas presentecf to king Georg* I. two compleat sets, of the Cartoons, and a set each to the prince and princess. The king gave him a purse of loO guineas^ and the prince a gold metlAl. Tfa« duk« oi Devonchire^ of whom he had X borrowed 1C2 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. borrowed 400/. remitted to him the interest of four years ; and in the following year procured him to be knighted by the king. He painted some portraits here,, not with much success in likeness, and his eyes begin- ning to fail, he retired to France in 1724. His collection of drawings had been sold before in 1723. Among them were some after- Dominichino and Guer- cino, and one after Daniel de Volterra, which Vcrcue preferred to all his works. There were an * hundred and four heads, hands and feet, traced off from the Cartoons. While he was making drawings of the Car- toons, a person in London offered him 200/. for them; but he would not conclude any agreement till the plates were finished. They were sold at his auction for 52 guineas. The total amount of his drawings came to 320/. His whole number of plates large and small was 1^3. CHARLES DUPUIS, Besides part of the Cartoons,engraved someplatesof the story of Charles h but differing with Dorigny, and the climate not agreeing with him, he returned to Paris, where he died suddenly in 1743. A younger brother This I were sold in one lot for 74/, separately afterwards for lo*/. of ' ATALOGUK OF ENGRAVERS. 163 of his came over, and did some plates, but returned soon, finding gFcater Encouragement at home. CLAUDE DUBOSC Quitted Dorigny at the same time with Dupuis, but settled here, and undertook to engrave the Cartoons* for printsellers. His next engagement was a set of the duke of Marlborough's battles, to be performed in two years, for fourscore pounds a plate; having no aid but Du Guernier, who had been in England for some years, and who was chiefly employed in etching frontis- pieces for books and plays; but that help not being suf- ficient, Dubosc sent to Paris for tBeauvais and Baron, who assisted him to compleat the work, in 1717. He afterwards took a shop and sold prints. Picart having published his religious ceremonies in 1733, Dubosc un- dertook to give that work in English, and brought over Gravelot and Scotin to carry it on ; it came out weekly by subscription. Himself did a plate from the fine picture of Scipio's Continence by Nicolo Poussin at Houghton. His Portrait was drawn by Smybertt * Onc Epiciere, and Baron assisted hitn. t Or this man I find no other Account. LEWIS LEWIS DU GUERNIER -> Studied under Chatlllon at Paris, and ) came to England in 1708, but with very mo- derate talents, though be was reckoned to improve much here by drawing in the academy, which was then frequented, though established only by private contri- butions among the artists, Du Guernier was chosen director of it, and continued so to his death, which was occasioned by the small-pox, Sept, 19, 1716, when he was but thirty-nine years old. His chief business was engraving frontispieces for plays, and such small his- tories. His share in the plates of the duke of Marl, borough's batiles has been mentioned. At the instance df lord Halifax he did a large print of Lot and his two daughters, from Michael Angelo di Caravaggio, and two ample heads of the duke and duchess of Queens- berry. GEORGE BICKHAM, ) CoTEMPORARY with the last, engraved a '7^9 ^ few heads, as Sir Isaac Newton's, and bishop Blarkrill's ; a folio sheet with six writing-masters, one oi wUom, George Shelly, he engraved also from the life, CATALOGUE OI ENGRAVERS. life, a 709, ^ad marry other works. He retired to Richmond, and in May tySy^ being then living, sold part of his plates and stock in trade by auction* S. COIGNARD, A NAME that I find only to a print of Dryden, after Kneller. V. Ames, p. 52. T. JOHNSON, An artist as obscure as the preceding, graved a print of Bullock the comedian from the life. JOHN KIP* Born at Amsterdam, arrived here not long after the Revolution. He did a great number of plates, and very indifferently, of the palaces and seats in this king- THKKf had been before a William Kip, who engraved lome trium« ph«l9rciiet, 1603. dom* CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Horn. They were first drawn by one Leonard Knyff, his countryman, who also painted fowls, dogs, &c. and dealt in pictures. The latter died in Westminser 172 J, aged between 60 and 70, having been many years in England. His pictures, which were not extraordinary, were sold in 1723. Kip engraved an inside view of the Danish church built by Gibber, and died at near 70 years of age, in 1722, in a place called Long.ditch Westminster. He left a daughter whom he had brought up to painting. GEORGE KING Did plates of the lady Falconberg, and of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas. Another of his name, Daniel King, who * published the Vale Royal of England, drew and en» graved the plate of the cathedral at Chester, and several other views in the same book. His manner resembles Hollar's. • Daniel King wrote Miniature, or the Art of Limning, dedicate4 ta Mrs. Mary Fairfax, daughter of lord Fairfax, afterwards duchess of Buckingham. It was MS. in the collection of Thoresby, and at his uie was purchased by Mr. Scott, of Crown-coi^t, Vt^cstminster. ' S. NICHOLS, 1 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 167 S. N I C H O L S. His prints, mentioned by Ames, are of James Owen, and a woman called Yorkshire Nan. Some of these men seem to have been below Vertue's notice, and consequently are only mentioned here, that I may not seem to have overlooked them. Indeed, though Ver* tue thought that the art raised its head a little after the arrival o{ Dorigny, I find very few, except himself, who can pass for tolerable masters. JOSEPH SIMPSON Was very low in his profession, cutting arms on pewter plates ; till, having studied in the academy, he was employed by Tillemans on a plate of Newmarket, to which he was permitted to put his name ; and which, though it did not please the painter, served to make Simpson known. He had a son of both his names, of whom he had conceived extraordinary hopes, but who died in 1736, without having attained much excellence. PETER m CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. PETER VAN GUNST ) Was not in England himselF, but engraved ^7^3^ the set of whole lengths after Vandyck. •Houbraken came from Holland in 1713 to make the (Jrawings, for each of which he received one hundred 'guilders. The persons who employed him were Mr. Cock, Mr. Comyns, and the late well-known Mr. Swinny, formeriy director of the theatre. Van Gunst had a son who was twice in England, but suid not long. ROBERT, OR, ROGER WILLIAMS, A WELSHMAN, was, I believe, senior to many I have mentioned. He worked only in mcjszotinto, in which he had good siiccess. His print of Sir Richard Black- more is uncommonly fine. He contracted a great lameness from a sprain, for which he had his leg cut off, and lived many years afterwards. * I aixiBVK this was not Houbraken the engraver, but a painter (hat Namtf, wbo g«ve the designs for a History of the Bible. W.WIL. CATALOGUE OF ENGJIAVERS. 169 W. WILSON Did a mezzotimoof lady Newburgb, lord Lansdown's Myra. MICHAEL VANDERGUTCH Of Antwerp, was scholar of one Boutats, and master of Vertue, who was told by him that Boutats had four daughters and twenty sons, of whom twelve were en- gravers ; and that one of them, Phijip, had twelve sons, four of whom were engravers. Vandergutch's own family, though not so numerous, has been alike dedi. cated to the art. When Michael arrived here, does not appear. He practised chiefly on anatomic figures ; but sometimes did other things, as a large print of the royal navy, on a sheet and half, designed by one Baston. His master- piece was reckoned a print of Mr. Savage. He was much afflicted with the gout, and died Oct. 16, 1725, aged 65, at his house in Bloomsbury, and was buried in St. Giles's. He left two sons; Gerard, the second son, now living,* and * He sold pictures, and died in Great Brook-street, London, March }8, 1776, aged 80. Y JOHN 170 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. JOHN VANDERGUTCH, Who was born in 1697. He learned to draw of Cheron, and of his father to engrave ; but chiefly prac- tised etching, which he sometimes mixed with the other. He studied too in the academy. His six academic fi- gures after Cheron were admired ; and he is much com- mended by Cheselden in the preface to his Osteology, in the prints of which he had much share, as he had in the plates from Sir James ThornhiU's cupola of St. Paul's. There is a print by hirn from Poussin's picture of Tancred and Erminia. CLAUD DAVID Of Burgundy, published a print from the model of a fountain, with the statues of queen Anne, the duke of Marlborough on horseback, and several river gods, which was proposed to be erected at the conduit in Cheapside. Under the print; Opus equitis Claudii David, comitatus Burgundiae. BERNARD CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. )71 CHEREAU, junior, Came over by invitation from Dubosc, being brother of a famous engraver of that name at Paris, whose man- ner he imitated. He executed a profile of George I. wliich was much hked : but asking extravagant prices, he found small encouragement, and returned home. BERNARD LENS Was son of a painter of the same names, who died Feb. 5, 1708, aged 77, and was buried in St. Bride's. He left four or five MSS. volumes of collections on divinity. His son, the subject of this article, was a mezzotinto scraper, and drawing-master ; sometimes etched, and drew for Sturt and other engravers. He copied the Judgment of Paris in mezzotinto from Sir Peter Lely, and did a multitude of small prints in the same way, chiefly histories and landscapes, and drew several views in Englanrl, in Indian ink. He died April 28, 1725, aged 66. His son was the incom- parable painter in water-colours, Bernard Lens, whose copies from Rubens, Vandyck, and many other great masters, have all the merit of the originals, except Y 2 what 172 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. what they deserve too, duration. He was drawing, master to the duke of Cumberland and the princesses Mary and Louisa, and to one whom nothing but grati- tude would excuse my joining with such names, the author of" this work ; my chief reason fcr it, is to bear testimony to the virtues and integrity* of so good a man, as well as an excellent ardst. He died at Knights- bridge, whither he had reiired, after scHing his collec- tion. He left three sons ; the eldest was a clerk in my office at the Exchequer; the two youngest, ingenious painters in miniature. SAMUEL MOORE Of the Custom-house, drew and etched many works with great lab, ur. He first made a medley of se- veral things, drawn, written, and painted ; one he presented to Sir Robert Harley, speaker of the House of Commons, aftei wards earl of Oxford j ic was an imitation of several sorts of prints. * Oncx when he was drawing a lady's picture in the dress of the queen of Scots, she said to him, But, Mr. Lens, you have not made me like the queen of Scots." " No, madam, if God Almighty had made youjr ladyship like her, I would." This Bernard etched two or three little drawing-books of landscape, SCOTIN, CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 173 S C O T I N, No eminent artist, as appears by his print from Van- dyck's Bellisarius at Chiswick. If the two fine pic- tures on this subject are compared, it must not be by setting Scotius's near Mr. Sirange's. To weigh the merits of Salvaior and Vandyck impartially, Mr. Strange should engrave both ; I mean, to judge ho^ each has delivered the passions ; in which decision we should not be diverted by the colouring. Indeed, one would suppose that Vandyck had seen Salvator's per- formance ; and, despairing to exceed him in the prin- cipal figure, had transferred his art, and our attention, to the young soldier. Salvator's Bellisarius reflects on his own fortune ; Vandyck's warrior moralizes on the instability of glory. One asks one's self which is more touching, to behold bow a great man feels adversity, or how a young mind is struck with what may be the catastrophe of ambition? Mr. ENGLISH Of Mortiack, who died in 1718, etched J a print of Christ and the disciples at Emmaus, Sifter Titian, HENRY 174 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. HENRY HULSBERG, Born at Amsterdam, did prints of Sir Bulstrode Whitlock, Robert Warren, A. M. and Joseph Warder, a physician ; some of the plates in the Vitruvius Bri- tannicus ; a large view of St. Peter's Church at Rome, &c. and a head of Aaron Hill, for his History of the Ottoman Empire, fol. 171 1. After a paralytic IHness of two years, he died in 1729, and was buried in the Lutheran church of the Savoy, of which he had been warden, and by which community and by a Dutch club he had been supported, atter he became incapable of business. JOHN FABER, Born in Holland, drew many pictures from the life on*velom with a pen, and scraped several mezzotintos, both from paintings and from nature. His most con- siderable works, and those not excellent, were portraits of the founders of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. ]He died at Bristol, in May 1721. His son. * ViRTUthad seen one of these small heads, inscribed J. Faber delin. in Graven Uagc, 1692, JOHN CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 173 JOHN FAB EJL junr. Surpassed his father by far, and was the next mez- zotinter in merit to Smith. He was born in Holland, but brought to England, at three years old. His first instructions he received from his father ; aftervvwds he studied in Vanderbank's academy. He executed a pro- digious number of portraits, some of which are bold, free and beautiful. To him we owe the kit-cat-club, the beauties at Hampton-court, and have reason to wish that we had the same obligations to him for those at Windsor, and of the admirals at Hampton-court. He died of the gout, very few years ago, at his house in Bioomsbury. His widow married Mr, Smith, a lawyer. EDWARD KIRKALL, Son of a lock-smith, was born at Sheffield in York- shire, where he attained the rudiments of drawing, which however were long before they arrived at any perfection. He came to London, and for some time supported himself by graving arms, stamps, ornaments, and 175 CAT ALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. and cuts for books.* The latter gained him an immor- tality, which with all his succeeding merit he perhaps would have missed^ if his happening to engrave the portrait of a lady Dunce had not introduced him to the remarks of Mr. Pope, who describes her With flow'rs and fruit by bounteous Kirkall drest. At length, drawing In the academy, and making some attempts in chiaro scuro, he discovered a new method of printing, composed of etching, mezzotint© and wooden stamps, and with these blended arts he formed a style, that has more tints than ancient Avooden cuts, resembles drawings, and by the addition oi mezzoiinto, softens the shades on the outlines, and more insensibly and agreeably melts the impression of the wooden stamps, which give the tincture to the paper and the shades together. He performed several prints in this manner, and did great justice to the drawing and ex- pression of the masters he imitated, This invention, for one may call it so, had much success, much applause, no imitators. — I suppose it is too laborious, and too tedious. In an opulent country where there is great fa- cility of getting money, it is seldom got by merit. Our artists are in too much hurry to gain it, or de- serve it. * Im 1785 he did the cuts forthe new edition of Inigo Jones's Stone- henge. JAMES CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 177 JAMES CHRISTOPHER LE BLON. Another inventor in an age which however has not been allotted any eminent rank in the histoiy of arts. He naturally follows Kirkall, as there was some analogy in their pursuits. The former, if I may say so, at- tempted to print drawings, the laiter to print paintings. He was a Fleming, and very far from young when I knew him, but of surprizing vivacity and volubility, and with a head admirably mechanic; but an universal projector, and with, at least, one of the qualities that attend that vocation, either a dupe or a cheat ; I think the former, though, as most of his projects ended in the air, the sufferers believed the latter. As he was much an enthusiast, perhaps, like most enthusiasts, he was both one and t'other. He discovered a method of giving colour fo mez- zotinto, and perfected many large pictures, which may be allowed very tolerable copies of the best masters. Thus far his visions were realized. He distributed them by a kind of lottery, but the subscribers did not find their prizes much valued. Yet surely the art was worth improving, at least, in a country so fond of portraits. Le Blon's method of mezzotinto, at least, adds the rt. serriblance of colour. He had another merit to the public, with which few inventors begin ; he communicated his secret, in a thin Z quarto. 178 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. quarto, in French and English, intituled, Coloritto, or, the Harmony of colouring in Painting, reducing to Mechanical Practice under easy Precepts and infallible Rules." Dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole. In the preface he says that he was executing anatomic figures for Monsieur St. Andre. Some heads coloured pro- gressively, according to the several gradations, bear witness to the success and beauty of his invention. In 1732 he published a treatise on Ideal Beauty, or Le Beau Ideal, dedicated to lady Walpole. It was trans- lated from the original French of Lambert Hermanson Ten Kate. He afterwards set up a project for copying the car- toons in tapestry, and made some very fine drawings for that purpose. Houses were built, and looms erected, in the Mulberry.ground at Chelsea ; but either the ex- pence was precipitated too fast, or coRtributions did not arrive fast enough : The bubble burst, several suffered, and Le Blon was heard of no more.* '■ III II— a—— — . JOHN SIxMON Was born in Normandy, and came over some years before the death of Smith, who disagreeing with Sir * It is said that he died in an hospital at Paris, in 1740. Godfrey CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 179 Godfrey Kneller, Simon was employed by lilm to copy his pictures in mezzotinto, which he did, and from other masters, with good success. He was not so free in his manner as Smith, but now and then approached very near to that capital artist, as may be seen in his plates of Henry Rouvigny, earl of Galway, of earl Cadogan, and particularly oi lord Cutts, in armour, with a truncheon. Simon died about the year 1755. His collection of prints were sold by auction at Dar- res's print-shop in Piccadilly, over against Coventry- street, Nov. 3d, 1761. L. B O I T A R D Was a Frenchman, and very neat workman. He en- graved chiefly for books, and was employed by Dr. Woodward, by Dr. Douglas on anatomic figures, and by Dr. Meade. He engraved a large print of the ro- tunda after Paolo Panini, and the plates for Mr. Spence's Polymetis. He married an Englishwoman, and left a son and a daughter, Boitard's father, who went often to Holland to purchase curiosities for Dr. Meade, drew with the pen, in the manner of Le Fage, and of- ten set his name to his drawings, with the lime he had employed on them ; which sometimes, even for large pieces, did not exceed fifteen minutes. Showing one of Z 2 his 180 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. his designs to Ddrigny, and boasting of this expedition. Sir Nicholas told him he should have thought a man of his vivacity might have executed two such in the time. B. BARON, > Brought over, as has been said, by Du- ^^^^^ bosc, with whom he broke and went to law, on the plates for the story of Ulysses, engraven from the designs of Rubens, in the collection of Dr. Meade, but they were reconciled, and went to Paris together in 1729, where Baron engraved a plate from Watteau, and engaged to do another from Titian, in the king's collection, for Monsieur Crozat, for which he was to receive 60/. sterling. While at Paris, they both sat to Vanloo. Baron has executed a great number of works, a few portraits, and some considerable pictures after the best masters ; as the family of Cornaro at Northumber- land-house ; Vandyck's family of the earl of Pembroke at Wilton ; Henry VIII. giving the charter to the com- pany oF surgeons ; the equestrian figure of Charles I. by Vandyck, at Kensington ; its companion, the king, queen, and two children ; and king William on horse- back, with emblematical figures, at Hampton-court. His last considerable work was the family of Nassau, bv Vandyck, at the earl of Cowper's. Baron died in Panlon-square, Piccadilly, Jan. 24th, 1762. HENRY CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 181 HENRY GRAVELOT Was not much known as an engraver, but was an ex- pedient draughtsman, and drew designs for ornaments, in great taste, and was a faithful copyist of ancient buildings, tombs, and prospects ; for which he was con- stantly employed by the artists in London. He drew the monument of kings forVertue, and gave the de- signs, where invention was necessary, for Pine's plates of the tapestry in the House of Lords. He had been in Canada, as secretary to the governor ; but the climate disagreeing with him, he returned to France, whence he was invited over by Dubosc. He was for some time employed in Gloucestershire, drawing churches and antiquities. Vertue compares his neat manner to Plcart; and owns that, in composition and design, he even excelled his favourite Hollar. He sometimes at- tempted painting small histories and conversations. Of his graving ^re the prints to Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition of Shakespear, and many of them he designed; but it is his large print of Kirkstall-abbey which shows how able an engraver he was. JOHN 182 CATALOGUE OF EiNXRAVERS. JOHN PINE Ni:ed but be mentioned, to put the public in mind of the several beautiful and fine woiks for which they are indebted to him. The chief of them are, the cere- monies used at the revival of the Order of the Bath, by king George I. the prints from the tapestry in the House of Lords ; representing the destruction oi the Spanish Armada, a book rivalling the splendid editions of the Louvre ; and the fair edition of Horace ; the whole text engraven, with ancient has reliefs and gems illustrating the subjecis. He has given too a print of the House of Commons, some ancient charters, and other things. His head painted by Mr. Hogarth, in the man- ner of Rembrandt, is well known from the print. ARTHUR POND. Another promoter of meritorious works, was con- cerned with Mr. Knapion in setting forth the noble volume of illustrious heads, engraved by Houbraken and Vertue, and which might still be enlarged. Mr. Pond was author too of the design ior engraving the works of Claud Lorrain and Caspar Poussin, of which CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 183 ^vhlch several numbers were exhibited ; a few landscapes from Rembrandt, and other masters, and prints from Paolo Panini followed. He also published many prints from fine drawings, and a set of Caricaturas after Cavalier Ghezi. Mr. Pond had singular knowledge in hands, but considerably more merit as an editor than as a painter, which was his profession, both in oil and and crayons. He had formed a capital collection of etchings by the best masters, and of prints, all which he disposed of to a gentleman in Norfolk ; they have since been sold by auction, as were his cabinet of shells after his death. He etched his own head. Dr. Meade's and Mr. Sadler's, Pope's and lord Bolingbroke's. HENR, Y FLETCHER } Published a print, the story of Bathsheba, ) from Sebastian Concha, his first essay on his own account. He also engraved a print of Ebenezer Pemberton, minister of Boston. CAREY 184 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. CAREY CREED Published a set of plates from the statues and busts at Wilton. JOSEPH WAGNER, ^ A Swiss, came to England in 1733, aged ^733^ between twenty and thirty. He had studied painting a httle, but being encouraged by Amiconi, engraved after the works of the latter. His first pro- ductions were plates of the three princesses, Anne, Amelie, and Caroline; his next, a whole length of the Czarina Anne. He afterwards executed two prints of boys, and about an hundred plates, views of Roman antiquities, most of them copied from old engravings, and from Canaletti some prospects of Venice, whither he accompanied Amiconi, intending to keep a print- shop there. THOMAS PRESTON Did a print of Mr. Pope, and a large head of admiral Blake, with ships under it. JOHN CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. 185 JOHN LAGUERRE Was son of Lewis Laguerre, a painter of history, by whom he was educated to thesame profession, and had a genius for it — but neglecting to cuhivate it, he took to the stage, in which walk he had merit, as he had success in painting scenes for the theatre in Covent- garden, to which he belonged. He engraved a print of FaistafFe, Pistol and Doll Tearsheet, with other the- atric characters, alluding to a quarrel between the play- ers and patentees ; and a set of prints, of Hob in the Well, which sold considerably ; but he died in indif- ferent circumstances, in March 1748. Lewis the fa- ther etched a print of Midas sitting in judgment between Pan and Apollo. PETER FOURDRINIERE Who died a few years ago, excelled in engraving ar- chitecture, and did many other things for books. Aa JOHN m CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. JOHN GREEN A YOUNG man who made great proficience In graving landscapes, and other things ; particularly heads of Thomas Rowney ; Thomas Shaw, D. D. W. Derharn, D. D. and the plates for Borlase's Natural History of Cornwall, and many of the seats ; was born at Hales Owen in Shropshire, and bred under Basire, an en- graver of maps, father of the present engraver to the Antiquarian Society. Green was employed by the University of Oxford, and continued their almanacs ; but died immaturely three or four years ago. His bro- ther is in the same business. Besides all I have mentioned, dispersed In Vertue's MSS. I have since found soine more names, of whom the notices are so slight, that it is not worth while to endeavour finding proper places for them. Their names are, Morellon le Cave,* a scholar of Picart ; J. Cole; P. Williamson ; G. Lumley, who settled at York ; P. Tempest ; Peter Coombes ; P. Pelham ; E. Kyte ; George Kitchin; who did heads of Mahomet and Mustapha, Turks belonging to George I. and William Robins, Alexander Brown, and de Blois, mezzotinters ; Vant Bleek, who executed of late years a fine print of * He did a head of Dr. Pocockc, before Tweils's edition of the doctor's works. + He died July 26, 1764. Johnson CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. Johnson and Griffin, players ; and A. Van Haccken, Avho has given a head of Dr. Pepusch and some others. John Stone ihe younger drew and engraved one of the plates for Dugdale's Wai"wickshire. T. Pingo did a plate of arms for Thoresby's Leeds ; S. Boisseau a plate for Aaron Hill's History of the Ottoman Empire ; and Th. Gardner, a set for the Common Prayer para- phrased, by James Harris, 1735. Several English por- traits have been engraved abroad, particularly by Cor- nelius Van Dalen; Arthur De Jode, and P. De Jode ; J. De Leuw ; Pontius ; Edelinck, and Picart. Many also have been engraved by unknown hands. To the conclusion of these Memoires, and for a se- parate article^ I reserve an account of him, to whom his country, the artists whose memoires he has preserved, and the reader, are obliged for the materials of this work. On living artists it is neither necessary nor proper to expatiate. The task will be easy to others hereafter to continue the series. Here is a regular succession from the introduction of the art into England to the present year ; and the chief aeras of its improvements and ex- tension marked. That the continuation will afford a brighter list, one may augur, from the protection given to the arts, from the riches and flourishing state of our dominion, and from the masters we actually possess. Houston,* Mac Ardell.+ and Fisher, have already pro- * Mr . Houston died Aug. 4, 1775. + Mr> Mac Ardell died June 2, 1765. A a 2 mised 188 CATALOGUE OF ENGRAVERS. mised by their works to revive the beauty of mezzo- tlnto. The exquisite plates of architecture, which daily appear, are not only worthy of the taste which is re- stored in that science, but exceed whatever has appeared in any age or country. * Mr. Rooker is the Marc An- tonio of architecture. Vivares and some others have great merit in graving landscape. Major's works after Teniers, &c. will always make a principal figure in a collection of prints, and prevent our envying the ex- cellence of the French in that branch of the art. 1 could name more, if it would not look like flattery to the living ; but I cannot omit so capital a master as Mr. Strange, least it should look like the contrary. When I have named him, I have mentioned the art at its highest period in Britain. * Mr, Rookzr died Nov. 22, i774» Oct, 10th, 1762. FINIS. THE THE L I F E OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. Ill— BB—— II THE ensuing account is drawn from his own notes, in which the highest praise, he ventures to as- sume, is founded on his industry. — How many men in a higher sphere have thought that single quality con- ferred many shining others ; The world too has been so complaisant as to allow their pretensions. Vertue thought the labour of his hands was but labour — the Scaligers, and such book-wights, have mistaken the drudgery of their eyes for parts, for abilities — nay, have supposed it bestowed wit, while it only swelled their arrogance, and unchained their ill-nature. How con- temptuously would such men have smiled at a plough- man, who imagined himself authorized to abuse all others, because he had turned up more acres of ground ! —and yet he would have toiled with greater advantage to mankind, George 190 THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. George Vertue was born in the parisli of St. Martin's in the Fields, London, in the year 1684. His parents, he says, were more honest than opulent. It vanity had entered into his composition, he might have boasted the antiquity of his race ; two oi his name were employed by Henry VIII. in the board of works ; but I forget ; a family is not ancient, ii none ot the blood were above the rank of ingenious men two hundred years ago. About the age of thirteen he was placed with a master who engraved arms on plate, and had the chief business of London; but, who being extravagant, broke and returned to his country, France, after Vertue had served him between three and four years. , As the man was unfortunate, though by his own fault, the good-naiure of the scholar has concealed his name. As it is proper the republic of letters should be acquainted with the minutest circumstances in the life of a re- nowned author, I question if Scaliger would have been so tender. Returned to his parents, Vertue gave hlmseii en- tirely to the study of drawing for two years ; and then entered into an agreement with Michael Vandergutch for three more, wliich term he protracted to seven, en- graving copper-plates for him ; when, having received instructions and advice from several painters, he quitted his master on handsome terms, and began to work for himself. This was in the year 1709. The first twelve- month was passed in drawing and engraving for books. The THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. 191 Th e art was then at the lowest ebb in Encrland. The o best performers were worn out : the war with France shut the door against recruits; national acrimony, and the animosity of faction diverted public attention from common arts of amusement. At that period the young engraver was recommended to Sir Godfrey Kneller, whose reputation, riches, parts, and acquaintance with ihe first men in England supported what little taste was left for Virm, and could stamp a character where-ever lie deigned to patronize. My author mentions with du- tiful sensibility what joy this important protection gave to his father, who had his education warmly at heart, and who dying soon after, left a widow and several children to be supported by oar scarce-fledged adven- turer. His own words shall tell how he felt his situa- tion, how little the false colours of vanity gave a shining appearance to the morning of his fortune ; " I was," says he, " the eldest, and then the only one, that could help them, which added circumspection in my affairs then, as well as industry to the end of my life." At intervals of leisure, he practised drawing and music, learned French, and a little Italian, It appears that he afterwards acquired Dutch ; having consulted, in the originals, all that has been written in those three languages on the art to which he was devoted. His works began to draw attention, and he found more illustrious patronage than Kneller's. Lord Somers employed him to engrave a plate of archbishop Tillot- £on, and rewarded him nobly. The print will speak for VJ2 THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE . for itself. It was the ground-work of his reputation, and deserved to be so. Nofhing like it had appeared for some years, nor at the hour of its production had he any competitors. Edeliiick was dead in France, White in England, Van Gunst in Holland: " It seemed," says he himself, " as if the bail of fortune was tossed up to be a prize only for Venue." One cannot estimate success at a lower rate, than to ascribe it to accident; the comparison is nt once modest and ingenious. Shade of Scaliger, which of your works owed its glory to a dearth of genius among your cotemporaries ? In 1711 an academy of painting was Instituted by the chief performers in London. Sir Godfrey Kneller was placed at the head ; Vertue was one of the first members; and drew there for several years. To the end of that reign he continued to grave por- traits from Kneller, Dahl, Richardson, Jervase, Gib- son and others. On the accession of the present royal family he pub- lished a large head of the king, from a painting by Kneller. As it was the first portrait of his majesty, many thousands were sold, though by no means a labo- rious or valuable performance. However it was shewn at court, and was followed by those of the prince and princess. . All concurred to extend his business. In any recess from that he practised in water-coIourS, sometimes attempting portrait ; oftener copying from apcient or curious pieces which he proposed to engrave. So THE Lift OF Mr. €E0RGE V£RTU£, 19S So early as the year 1713 he commenced his researches after the lives of our artists, and began his collections, to which he added prints by former masters, and every thing that could tend to his great work, the History of the Arts in England. Wherever he met with portraits ol the performers, he spared no pains in taking copies. His journies over England witli the same view will ap- pear in the course of his life. These travels were as* siduously employed In making catalogues, observations, and memorandums of all he saw. His thirst after British Antiquities soon led him to a congenial Msecenas. That munificent collector, Ro- bert Harley, second earl of Oxford, early distinguished the merit and application of Vertue. The invariable gratitude of the latter, expressed on all occasions, im- plies the bounty of the patron. " The earl's generous and unparalled encouragement of my undertakings, by promoting my studious endeavours," says he, " gave me great reputation and advantage over all otlier profes- sors of the same art in England.'* Another lesson of humility. How seldom is fame ascribed by the pos- sessor to the countenance of others I The want of it is complained of — here is one instance, perhaps a singu- lar instance, where the influence is acknowledged— af- ter the death of the benefactor. Another patron was Heneage Finch,* earl of Winchelsea, whose picture he painted, and engraiyed ; • Hs died in 1726, Bb 194 THE LIFE OF Ma. GEORGE VERTUE. and who, being president of the Society of Antiquaries on the revival In 1717, appointed Vertue, who was a member, engraver to it. ' The plates published by that society from curious remains were most of them by his hands as long as he lived, are a valuable monument, and will be evidence that that body is not useless in the learned world. The University of Oxford employed him for many years to engrave their almanacs. Instead of insipid emblems that deserved no longer duration than what they adorned, he introduced views of public buildings, and historic events; for he seldom reaped benefit from the public, without repaying it \v\t\i information. Henry Hare, the last lord Coleraine, an antiquary and collector, as his grandfather had been, is enumerated by Vertue among his protectors. His travels were dignified by accompanying those lords. They bore the cxpence which would have debarred him from visiting many objects of his curiosity, if at his own charge ; and he made their journies more delightful, by explaining, lakirjg draughts, and keeping a register of what they saw. This was the case in a journey he took with lord Coleraine to Salisbury, Wilton and Stonehenge. Of the latter he made several views: Wilfon he pro- bably saw with only English eyes. Amid legions of •warriors and emperors, he sought Vandyck and Rubens, Holbein and Inigo Jones. An antique and modern virtuoso might inhabit that palace of arts and never in- terfere. An ancient indeed would be a littk surprized to THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. 195 to find so many of his acquaintance new baptized. Earl Thomas did not, like the popes, convert pagan chiefs into christians, but many an emperor acts the part at Wilton of scarcer Cassars. In 1726 Venue, with Mr. Stephens the historiogra- pher, visited St. Alban's, Verulam and Gorhambury. At the latter he made a drawing from the picture of Sir Francis Bacon. Great part of his time was employed for lord Ox- ►ford, for whom he engraved portraits of Mr. Prior, Sir Hugh Middleton, &c. For the duke of Montagu he did Sir Ralph Windwood ; for Sir Paul Metheun, Cor- tex ; archbishop Warham from Holbein's original at Lambeth; and for lord Burlington Ziicchero's qu^en of Scots '-'V*''^-^"^*'*^* ^..yM-w-v-^.-- A... V*'^-* His prints growing numerous, many persons were desirous of having a compleat collection. He made up sets for Sir Thomas Frankland, for Mr West, and for lord Oxford ; the last in three large volumes, carried down to 1741 ; and sold, after the earl's death, to the late earl of Ailesbury for fifty guineas. In 1727 he went to Wimpole for a week, and thence made a tour with lord Oxford for six weeks more, to Stamford, Burleigh, Grantham, Lincoln, and Weibeck, one of the ancient scats of the countess of Oxford, where, after the earl's death, she assembled the portraits of her ancestors to a prodigious number, the her oes of many an illustrious race. Thence they passed to Chats- worth and York, where Vertuehad the pleasure of B b 2 con- 196 THE LIFE OF Mx. GEORGE VERTUE. •* conversing with Mr. Francis Place, who had been in- timate with Hollar. Trifling circumstances to those wiio do not feel what he felt. Vertue drew up an ac- count of this progress, and presented it to his patron. For some years his stages were marked by noble en- •coufagement, and by opportunities of pursuing his fa- vourite erudition. He^ was ihvit-ed whether he would -wish to make pilgrimages ; for the love of antiquity is a kind of devotion, and Mr. Vertue had different sets of "^saints. In 1728 the duke of Dorset called him ta Knowle.- Humble before his superiors, one conceives how his respect was heightened at* entering so venerable a pile, realizing to his eyes the scenes of many a waking vision. Here he drew several of the poets. But he was on fairy-ground ; Arcadia was on the con- fines ; could he resist an excursiort to Penshurst ? One may judge how high his enthusiasm had been wrought, by the mortification he expresses at not finding there a portrait of Sir Philip Sidney. In 1730 appeared his twelve heads of poets, one of his capital works. Though poetry was but a sister art, he treated it with the affection of a relation. He had collected many notes touching the professors, and here and there in his MSS. are some slight attempts of his own. But he was of too timid and correct a nature to soar where fancy only guides. Truth was his province, and he had a felicity uncommon to antiquaries, he never suffered his imagination to lend him eyes. Where he could not discover, he never supplied, • • After THE LIFE OF Mn. GEORGE VERTUE. 197 After his poets, of which he proposed to enlarge the series, it was his purpose to give sets or classes of other eminent men. This was the first idea of ilius- triuus heads, a hint afterwards adopted by others, and at last taken out of his hands, who was best furnished with materials for such a work. Some branches he executed himself, with deserved applause. About this time he again went to Oxford, copied some original paintings, and took an account of what portraits the)'' have of founders and benefactors, and where deposited. Thence to Gloucester to draw the monument of Edward II. having for some years been collecting and making drawings of our kings, hoia images, miniatures, or oil-paintings ; a work soon after unexpectedly called forth. On his return he stopped at Burford to view the family-piece of Sir Thomas More, and visited Ditchley and Blenheim, His next tour was to Cambridge, where he had been privately en- gaged to daw by stealth the portrait of old Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John's, then an eminent antiquary, earlier in his life the modest author of that ingenious and po- lished httle piece. Reflexions on Learning. Vertue's next considerable production was the heads of Charles I. and the loyal sufferers in his cause, with their characters subjoined from Clarendon. But this was scarce finished, before appeared Rapin's His- tory of England, " a work," says he, " that had a pro- digious run, especially after translated, insomuch that it became all the convewstion of the town and country, ^nd 128 THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. and the noise being heightened by opposition and party, it was proposed to pubHsh it in foho by numbers- Thousands were sold every week." The two brothers, Knapions, engaged Vertue to accompany it with effigies of kings, and suitable decorations. This undertaking employed him for three years. A fair copy, richly bound, he presented to Frederic prince of Wales, at Kensing'on. A volume of his best works he gave lo the Bodleian library. In 1734 he renewed his journies about England, With Roger Gale the antiquary he went to St. Alban's, Northampton and Warwick. In 1737 the earl of Lei- ceister carried him to Penshurst ; and the end of the same year lord Oxford took him again to Oxford, to Compfon Verney, the seat of the master of the rolls, to Warwick, Coventry, Birmingham, and to lord Digby's at Coleshill, to view the curious picture of queen Eli- zabeth's procession, since removed by the late lord to Sherborn-casile in Dorsetshire. They returned by Stratford (Vertue did not want true devotion to Shake- speai-e) by Mr. Sheldon's at Weston, where are a few curious pictures, saw Blenheim, and Mr. Waller's at Beconsfield. The next year he went into Hertford- shire to verify his ideas about Hunsdon, the subject as he thought of queen Elizabeth's progress. The old lord Digby, who from tradition believed it the queen's procession to St. Paul's after the destruction of the Ar- ?nadaj|^,was displeased with Vertue's new hypothesis. THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. 199 The same year be saw Windsor, and Mr. Topham's collection of drawings at Eton. " He next engaged with the Knaptons to engrave some of the illustrious heads, the greater part of which were executed by Houbraken, and undoubtedly surpassed tbose of Veitue. Yet bis performances by no means deserve to be condemned as they were by the under- takers, and the performer laid aside. Some of Hou- baken's were carelessly done, especially of the mo- derns ; but Vertue had a fault to dealers, which was a merit to the public : his scrupulous veracity could not digest imaginary portraits, as are some engraved by Houbraken, who living in Holland, ignorant of our history, uninquisitive into the authenticity of what was transmitted to him, engraved whatever was sent. I will mention two instances ; the heads of Carr earl of So- merset and secretary Thurloe are not only not genuine, but have not the least resemblance to the persons they pretend to represent, Vertue was incommode; he loved truth. Towards the end of 1738 he made another tour with lord Oxford through Kent and Sussex, visitin* ~ ' c> Rochester, Canterbury, Chichester, Portsmouth, South- ampton and Winchester ; and the principal seats, as Petworth, Goodwood, Stansted, and Coudray — the last alone worth an antiquary's journey. Of all these he made various sketches and notes; always presenting a duplicate of his observatior.s to lord Oxford. roo THE LIFE or M«. GEORGE VERTUE. He had yet another pursuit, which I have not men- tioned ; no man had studied English coins more ; part of his researches have appeared in his account of the two Simons. He still wanted to visit the east of England, In 1739 his wish was gratified; lord Coleraine, who had an estate at Walpole, on the borders of Norfolk in Lin- colnshire, carried him by Wansted, Mousharn, Gosficid, St. Edmondsbury, Sir Andrew Fountain's and Hough- ton, to Lynn, and thence to Walpole ; in which circuit they saw many churches, and other seats. In 1740 he published his proposals for the commence- ment of a very valuable work ; his historic prints, drawn with extreme labour and fidelity ; and executed in a most satisfactory manner. Queen Elizabeth's progress he copied exactly in water-colours for lord Oxford, who was so well pleased with it, that he sent Mr, Ver- tue and his wife a present of about sixty ounces of plate — but thus arrived at the summit of his modest wishes, that is, rewarded for illustrating English his- tory, — his happiness was suddenly dashed ; he lost his noble friend the earl, who died June 16, 1741. " Death, says he emphatically, put an end to that life that had been the support, cherisher, and comfort of many, many others who are left to lament — but none more iieartily than Vertue!" So struck was the poor man with this signal ihIs- fortune, that for two years there is an hiatus in his story— he had not spirits even to t>€ minute. In THE LIFE OF Mr. GEORGE VERT0^^ 20l In , 1743 he was a U.ule re.vi>iied Jt>y acquLrlnj^tbe jio- nour oi ^,he duke of N Coypel, ROYAL PORTRAITS. Class i. , Four small plates of kings from William L to George I. inclusively. The same in one plate. Large LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 207 Large set of heads of the kings, for Rapln. Smaller set ditto. Monuments of the Confessor, Edward I. Henry V. Henry VII. Edward VI. for the series of royal tombs. Richard II. whole-length, from the painting in Westminster- abbey. Queen Elizabeth, profile, from Isaac Oliver. Ditto from Hilliard, in Hearn's Camden's Elizabetha, Mary queen of Scots, from Zucchero, to the knees. A head of the same, smaller. The same queen, small, from the picture at St. James's. Ditto, engraved on gold in an oval, from Dr. Meade's picture, finely executed.. Small oval of the king and queen of Bohemia, and one of their children. Charles I. and lais queen, holding a chaplct of laurel, from Vandyck. Voerst engraved the same picture. Queen Anne, large oval, after Kneller. Ditto, crowned, the royal arms at top ; the medals of her reign round the frame. King George I. very large, 1715. Ditto, a less size, 1718, better. Ditto, smaller Ditto, with flourishes, for some patent, or writing- book. George prince of Wales, large. The princess of Wales, smaller. The same when queen, large. Ditto, 208 ItSt OF VERtUE's WORKS. DU,'.o, with an angel bringing a crown ; from Amiconi. Fje.deric prince of W^les, in a tied perriwig and armour, from Boit. Princess Anne. William Duke of Cumberland, collar of tlie Bath, from Jarvis. Princess Mary, holding a basket of flowers ; mezzo- tinto very bad. My proof has no inscription. Class 2. Noblemen. William Seymour duke of Somerset. Henry Somerset Duke of Beaufort. William Cavendish duke of Newcastle, for the ilJus- trious heads. John duke of Marlborough, John duke of Buckingham. Philip duke of Wharton, from Jarvis, no inscription. Lionel duke of Dorset, in robes of the garter. Ditto in coronation robes, white staff. Henry Howard earl of Surrey, with many devices. Ditto smaller, copied from Hollar. Francis earl of Bedford, for the illustrious he^^ds. Edward earl of Dorset, ditto. Heneage earl of Winchelsea ; blank shield, coronet, and supporters, no inscription ; nor any cross strokes in the figure. Robert LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 209 Robert Dudley earl of" Leicester. Edward earl of Clarendon. Small heads. Edward earl of SandM'ich. J The earl of Derwentwater. Edward earl of Orford. Charles earl of Halifax. Robert earl of Oxford, garter- robes^ white staff, one of his last and worst works. Edward earl of Oxford, sitting, in n^ght-gown and cap; many pieces of his collection round him. Ditto, in his robes, whole length. Thomas earl of Strafford* Horace lord Vere. John lord Somers. William lord Burleigh. Class 3. Ladies. Sarah duchess of Somerset, whole length.- Eiixaheth countess of Shewsbury, Dorothy countess of Sunderland. The lady Morton. Henrietta countess of Orrery. Frances lady Carteret. ) Wives of John Sophia countess Granville. ) earl Granville. Mrs. Margaret Halyburton, inscriptions in Latin and English. . Lady M. Cavendish Harley, for the small edition of 210 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS, Class 4. Bishops. Archbishop Warham, for the illustrious heads. Ditto, small. Archbishop Cranmer ; with a book in both hands, 57. By mistake the inscription and arms give it tor Parker. Archbishop Parker, books before him and on each side; fine. Ditto, book in one hand, staff in the other. D tto, smaller, and only the head. Archbishop Whitgift, book on a cushion before him. Ditto, smaller, head. Archbishop Grindal. Archbishop Bancroft. Archbishop Tillotson, sitting in a velvet chair, finGi John Potter,, bishop of Oxford. Ditto, when archbishop, in a chair, holding a boo-k on his knee. Francis Godwin, bishop of Landaff. Archbishop Blackburne. James Sharpe, archbishop of St. Andrews. J'.hn Jewel, bishop of Salisbury. John Robinson, bishop of London. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London. The same prim, but with books and charters on each side of the arms. Edward LIST OF V£RTUE's WORKS. Edward Chandler, bishop of Durham. Richard Fox, bishop of Winciiester. Joannes Cor- X iis Fiandrus faciebat. Hugh Latimer, bishop of Worcester. William Talbot, bishop of Salisbury. Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury. Ofspring Blackhall, bishop of Exeter. William Loyd, bishop of Worcester, silting in a. chair in his library ; one of his most capital works. Ditto, a large head. ■ Francis Gasuell, bishop of Chester. Richard Smalbroke, bishop of Litchfield and Co- ventry. George Smalridge, bishop of Bristol. Francis Atterbury bishop of Rochester. Two, with some little difference in the inscriptions. Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells. Three different prints. Philip Bisse, bishop of Hereford. Thomas Tanner, bishop of St. Asaph. Martin Benson, bish.op ot Gloucester. Benjamin Hoadicy rector of St Peter Poor, after- tierwards bishop of Winchester. Thomas Wilson, bishop of Sodor and Man. Class 5. Clergymen. John Spencer, dean of Ely. Lauience Echard. D d 2 Thomas 212 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. Thomas Bisse, S. T. P. William Lupton, S. T. D, George Brown, A. M. Mr. Kettlewell. George Tiosse, V. D. M. Effigies ALiihoris, arms. It is'Burnet of the charter- house. A'so, (a print of) The sacred theory of the earth ; according to his system. Mr. Isaac Mills. William Whiston. E. T. Episc. Oss. designatus. It is Edward Tenison, Matthew Henry, V. D. M, Dr. Conyers Middleton. This was designed for his works, but was rejected, as Vertue's eyes had begun to fail. John Barwick, dean of St. Paul's, John Gilbert, canon of E}^eter. R. Cudworth, D. D. Isaac Watts, V. D. M. Another, D. D. with a book in his hand, Dr. Swift. Another, smaller, in a night-gown. Another, still smaller ; under it Non Pareil. Humphrey Gower, master of St. John's Coll, John Gale, M. A. and D. P. Daniel Burgess. John Edwards, 8. T. P. Lewis Atterbury, L. L, D, John Harris, S. T. P. Richard LIST OF VERTOE's WORKS. 213 Richard Fiddes, S. S. T. P. Mr. Hall (executed) no name. Arm^. Montrose, no name, cap, band, picked beard. John Gill, S. T. P. Humphrey Prlddeau, dean of Norwich, John Owen, dean ot Christ-church. Mr. Thomas Stackhouse. Ralph Taylor, S. T. P. Henry Sacheverell. John Westley, two of them, 1742, 1745, John Strype, John Flamsteed. Richard Bentley. John Spence. Samuel Clarke. Three. The two smallest have no dlfierence ; but to that one is added Dna. Hoadley pinJC. Perhaps the other was only a proof. Mr. Spinckes. Mr. Henry Grove. Robert South, S. T. P. ■ John Pigott, V. D. M. • Robert Moss, dean of Ely. William Broome. A. Blackwall, M. A. Mr. Joseph Stennet. Edmund Calamy, D. D. Thomas Bradbury. John Laurence, A. M, Philip Dodderidg^i. Class fil4 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS* Class 6. Chancellors, Judges, Lawyers. Sir Thomas More, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon. Tomb of the same. Sir Thomas Parker. The same, when earl of Macclesfield. Sir Peter King, lord chief justice. The same, when chancellor. Sir Matthew Hale. John lord Fortescue. Sir John WillGs. Sir Robert Eyre. Sir Robert Raymond. Henry Pbwle, speaker and master of the rolls. Sir Joseph Jekyll, mafter of ihp rolls. The same, sitting in a chair, fine. John Verney, mafter of the rolls, fine, James Reynolds, chief baron. Sir James Steuart, lord advocate. Sir John Comyns, chief baron. Sir Francis Page, baron of the Exchequer. The same, justice of the King's-bench. Sir John Blencowe, justice of the Common-pleas. Robert Price, baron of the Exchequer. Sir James Montague, ditto. Alexander ltst of vertue's works. 215 Alexander Denton, just, of Common-pJeas. Sir Laurence Carter, baron of Exchequer. William Peere Williams, esq. Thomas Craig of Riccartoun. Thomas Vernon, esq. Lord-keeper North. Sir Dudley North. Roger North, esq. John Bridges, esq. Class 7. Ministers, and Gentlemen. Sir Francis Walsingham. Sir Walter Raleigh. Another small. Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. Sir Francis Drake, large, poorly done. Thomas Harley, esq. of Brampton-bryan. Sir Robert Harley, knight of the Bat-h. Sir Edward Harley, ditro. Edward Harley, esq. auditor of the imprest. Sir Ralph Winwood. Williajn Trumbil, esq. envoy to Brussels. Sir William Trumbull, secretary of state. John Thurloc, esq. Sir Edward Nicholas. Sir Thomas Roe. James Craggs, esq. sen. lyord Aubrey Beauclerk, pearly done. Sir 21S LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn. Sir Thomas Rawlinson, lord-mayor. Francis Mundy. Sir Philip Sydenham, Mr. Parker. James Gardiner, A. M. Henry Barham, esq. A gentleman, in a cravat, loose cloak, arms, labei above him, no inscription. John Graves, gent, aged 102, 1616. Richard Graves, of Michelton, esq. d. 1669. Richardns Graves de Michelton, ob. 1731. Monument of Mrs. Eleanor Graves, &c. ■ Samuel Dale, M. L. John Morley, esq. James Puckle, small. John Bagford. My proof is on Indian reddish pa- per. Vertue was fond of printing on papers of various colours. John Murray of Sacomb, antiquary. Class 8. Physicians. Peter Barwick, physiciafn to Charles II. Dr. Ratcliffe. ' Dr. Turner. Another, smaller. Thomas Fuller, M. D. Thomas WiUis, M.. Dl Johw List OF VERtUE's Works. 217 John Friend, M. D. John Marten, surgeon. Ambrose Godfrey, chymist. Class 9. Founders, BENEFACtoRs, Sec Hush Price, iounder of Baliol-coH. Sir Thomas Gresham. Statue of ditto. Tomb of ditto. Edward Colston, esq. Sir Hugh Middleton, fine. Dr. Colet. Bast of ditto. Thomas Sutton^ Tomb of ditto* View of the charter-house^ William Lancaster, S. T. P. Class 10. Antiquaries, Authors^ MAtMt- MATICIANS. William Lambard* John Stowe. Sir Robert Cotton. John Selden. Sir James Ware* Thomas Hearne. Two different. Robert Nelson. E e Walter 218 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. Walter Moyle, esq, — William Baxter. Richard Baxter, prefixed to Calamy^s Life of Baxter, Mr. Wollaston. Sir Isaac Newton. Abraham Sharp. George Holmes. Sir Philip Sidney, with many devices. Small head of ditto. The same, whole-length, sitting under a tree. Robert Boyle, two of them. Mr. Steel, in a cap. The same when Sir Richard, in a wig. Mr. Addison, two : one has his arms. Edmund H alley. Mr. John Frcake. Class 11. Poets and Musicians. Title-page to the set of 12 poets, in an ornamented horder, with lord Oxford's arms 1. John Gower.t 2. Geofry Chaucer, 3. Edmund Spencer. 4. William Shakespeare. + Those numbered arc the set. Those with an asterisk do not be- long to it. 5. Ben LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. ^ 219 5. Ben Johnson. 6. Francis Beaumont. 7. John Fletcher, 8. John Milton, 9. Samuel Butler. 10. Abraham Cowley. 11. Edmund Waller. 12. John Dryden. Geotry Chaucer, large, in oval frame.* Another smaller, verses in old character.* A plate with five small heads of Chaucer, Mikon, Butler, Cowley, Waller.* Edmund Spencer, small.* William Sliakcspeare, small, in a large ruff.* Another still less.* Print of his tomb.* A plate with seven small heads of Shakespeare, John- son, Beaumont, Fletcher, Otway, Dryden, Wycherley.* Ben Johnson, small. * Francis Beaumont, small. * Bust of John Milton. * Another, young ; 2 Latin verses. * Another, old ; two Greek verses.* The same, 6 English verses.* Abraham Cowley, small.* Butler, for Grey's Hudibras.* Waller, for the small editions of his works.* John Dryden, large.* A small one.* E e 2 Sir 220 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS, Sir John Suckling. ' Nicholas Rowc/ His tomb. Thomas Durfey. Allan Ramsay. Mrs. Eliza Haywood. William Croft, Doctor of music. A head of John Milton, for a vignette.* Another, very different, act. 42. At one corner lightning ; at the other, the serpent and apple.* Two others, smaller.* Another, smaller.* Trivett, an old poet. A monk in an initial letter, John Lydgate. Lord Lansdown. Matthew Prior, sitting a chair, Mr. Pope, in a long wig. Ditto, small, in a cap. Arthur Johnson. Mrs.. Elizabeth Rowe, Mr. John Robinson, organist. Class 12, Foreigners. Hernan Cortez. Franciscus Junius, from an etching of Vandyck. The same, compleatly engraved, Balthazar Castiglione. Rapin Thoyras, Job LIST OF V£B:TUE'5 WORKS. 221 Job Patriarcha. 1. William prince of Orange.t 2. Maurice, prince of Orange. 3. Jacobus Arminius. ij. Simon Eplscopius. ^. Johannes Bogerman. 6. Gerardus Vossius. 7. Franciscus Gomarus, "~- 8. Edwardus Poppius. g. Gaspar Barlaeus. to. Johannes Uttenbogaert, 11. Philip de Mornay. MaphjEus Barberinus. postea Urbanus VIII. Papa. Hieronymus pracastoiius. Cervantes, Father Paul, Profile of Augustine Caracci. Racine. Benedetti, singer. Rev. Mr. Aaron. Pierre Varignon. Blaise Pascal. Archbishop Feneion, Wenceslaus Hollar. Marcus Hollar. Marcus Hieronymus Vida, i TiiK eleven heads numbered are a fet. Charles, 222 LIST OF V£RtU£'s WORKS, Charles XII. of Sweden. Philip V. king of Spain. Erasmus. * Antony Arnauld. Charles Rollin. Mons. de Stt Evremond. . Class 13. Historic Prints, and Prints with two or more Portraits. Henry VII. and his Queen, Henry VIII. and Jane Seymour. Procession of queen Elizabeth to Hunsdon-house. The tomb ot lord Darnley, James I. when a child, ear4 and countess of Lenox, &c. praying by it. Battle of Carberry-hill, at large, from a small view in the preceding. This was the first number, published with ex- planations. Three children of Henry VII. Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, and Mary queen of France. Frances duchess of Suffolk, and Adrian Stoke, her second husband. Lady Jane Grey, with emblematical devices. This was the second number published in like man- ner. Vertue intended to give some other pictures, re- lative to the family of Tudor, as Philip and Mary, from the picture at Woburn, which he had purposely copied LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 223 copied in water-colours ; but he finished no more of that set, but the following: Edward VI. granting the palace of Bridewell for an hospital. The Court of Wards ; with an explanation on a folio sheet. Thomas earl of Arundel, his countess and children ; a plate done for the duke of Norfolk, and never sold publicly. Thomas earl of Strafford and his secretary. The earl of Strafford's three children, A set of ten plates, containing the heads of Charles I. and the principal sufferers in his cause, with their cha- racters beneath, from lord Clarendon. Thomas earl of Coningsby, and his two daughters. The family of Eliot, of Port Eliot in Cornwall. William duke of Portland, Margaret his duchess, and lady Mary Wortley. Class 14. Tombs. Tomb of John duke of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey. of Sophia marchioness of Annandale. of Dr. Colet. Bust of ditto. Tomb of Di". Young. of Dryden. , — of Thomas Watson Wentworth. Class 224 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. Class 15. Plans, Views, Churches, Buildings. Survey of the remains of Roman Antiquity on thr Wolds in Yorkshire, Ancient plan of London, as it was in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign, on several sheets. A survey and ground-plot of the palace of Whitehall, Two plans for re-building London, proposed by Sir Christopher Wren, after the fire. Two different by Mr. Evelyn. Antiquae Etruriae pars orientalis. Plan of a Roman military way in Lancashire. Lincoln's-inn chapel. Church of Boston. Plan and elevati6n of the fire-works in St. James's- park, April 27, 1749. View of the fire-works at the duke of Richmond's at Whitehall, May 15, 1749- The gate-house or tower of Layer-Marney-hall in Essex, Three plates of Saxon antiquities, Waylandsmith, Ichenild-way, &c. Perspective view of a Gothic front in the church of Worlingworth in Suffolk. Inside view of the chapel on London-bridge. Ano- ther plate with the outside and the bridge. Sipall view of the cathedral at Exeter. Ditto LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 225 Ditto of St. Edmundsbury. Part of the abbot's palace at ditto. Ichnographry of the church, ditto. East view of Bluntsham church in Huntingdonshire. 'View of an ancient gateway, dedicated to Nicholas bishop of Exeter. View of London about 1560. North-west view of Gainsborough, Small view of the theatre, printing-house, and Ash- mola;an museum at Oxford. View of Penshurst. Inside of the abbey-chureh at Bath, drawn by J. Ver- tue, brother of George. Plan of the church of St. Martin. West prospect of ditto. South prospect of ditto. View of the Savoy. A tesselated pavement discovered at Stunsfield, near Woodstock, 1712. Extent of the fire of London, on two sheets. The ancient wooden church at Greensteed in Essex. Map of some Roman garrisons. Plan of a Roman camp. Five large prints of the Radcliffe library at Oxford.'^ * Cough's Bt . Topog, in Oxfordshire. F f Glass 225 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS, Class i6. Coins, Medals, Busts, Seals, Charters, Gems, and Shells, Coin of Carauslus and his empress in brass. Plate of coins of Carausius^ Ditto, and ot other emperors. Plate of Coins with the crux victorialis. Medal of queen Caroline when princess, a figure sitting on each side. Reverse of a medal, legend, Resurges. Plate of ancient Gallic coins. Another of barbarous coins. Medal of Leo X. Plate I. Egyptian figures, &c. Plate 2, Ditto. Medal of George II. his queen and children. Heads of Virgil and Homer. Smaller Homer. Small head of Franciscus Junius. Ditto of king Alfred. Ditto of a Pope. Very small one of Caleb Danvers. Bust of lord Turchetyl, abbot, of Crowland. A bust found at York, in possession of Roger Gale. An extract from Domesday, relating to the church of Hambyrie, in Wyrcestershire. Seal in the shape of a lozenge, an ox arxl a castle. Seal of Adam de Newmarche. Tally of Thomas Godesire. Seal LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 2: Seal of dean and chapter of Hereford. Two oihers. Seal of George Cook', bishop of Hereford. Robert Benct, bishop of Hereford. ^ Savari de Boun. A crescent. Another, same arms. Another seal, with arms of Bohun. Another, Another, a knight on horseback. Seal of William Fifz-Oth. to the surrender of an abbey. of St John Clerkenwell. of Thomas bishop of Elphln. of bishop Egidius. Some other seals. * Arms of queen Elizabeth, as a stamp. Ditto of James I. Precept of king Henry to the sheriff of Nottingliam. A charter and imperfect seal, parts only of a horseman and of another figure. Representation of the pontific Tiara. Jewels in the collection of Margaret duches of Port- land, 3 plates. Five shells, ditto. Thirteen samples of antique silver chased plate found at Bath, t * Cough's Brit. Topog. p. 712. of the first edit. + Cough's Brit. Topogr. iu Somersetshire—- but qu. whether these were not engraved by his brotlicr James, who resided at Bath ? -F f 2 Class 228 LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS, Class 17. Frontispieces, Head and Tail- Pieces. Frontispiece to Pline sur I'or et I'argent. George II. and queen Caroline, at top. A bishop giving a writing to Hibernia, with other figures. Seems to relate to a charity-school. A man writing on a tomb by moon-light ; for Dr. Young's Night-thoughts. Minerva raising a wom.an ; Resurges : Vignette. Head-piece for Thurloe's State-papers : Thurloe's head, &c. A person offering a book to James I. Faith standing by him with the Holy Bible, &c. I believe for father Paul. A procession, with the sign of the tabard ; for one of Chaucer's tales. A temple with boo^s and emblematic figures ; vivitur ingenio Frontispiece to the auction book of the Harleian collection. A head-piece with a view of Stonehenge, &;c. Vignette to Spence's Polymetis. A man digging, with Latin mottoes, small oval. Inside of a church, and a church-yard ; head-piece. The Annunciation, ditto. Many plates for the quarto edition of Waller. The LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. 22» The Ad Lcctorem for lord Burlington's PallaJio. Frontispiece to Historia Caelestis. Six initial letters, N. 2. P\ S. 2. T\ Set of head-pieces tor Homer. Froniispicce to F'enton's Mariamnc. Ditto to Smith's prints from Titian. Class i8. Miscellaneous. Arms of the Antiquarian Society at Spalding, en- graved and inezzotinto. Arms of Blount. Conundrum for Henny's right tobacco, a toe, a back, and O. Benefit ticket for Mademoiselle Violette. Print of Richard Dickinson, governor of Scar- borough Spaw, with verses. Pour. Large print of David Bruce, with account of his distresses at sea. As ill done as the former. Two plates of a mummy. Two genealogic trees, intituled, Processus & Series Legis. Plate to put in lady Oxford's books. Inscription to Neptune and Minerva. Head of Silenus, a has relief. Liber & Libera, ditto. A plate of some Roman Antiquities. The western prospect of Bear'sdcn-ha!l, in Surrey, satyric print. Antiquity- 230 ' LIST OF VERTUE's WORKS. Antiquity-liall, ditto. An antique female figure vvhh two faces, holding * snake with two-heads. Besides many plates for the Society of Antiquaries, published in their two volumes, and a series of Oxford Almanacs for several years ; and perhaps some plates which have not come to my knowledge. Oft. sad, 1761s* FINIS. INDEX I N D E X O F NAMES OF ENGRAVERS, RANGED ALPHABETICALLY. Adams, robert, p. 22. Chantry, J. 70. Aggas Ralph, 14. Chereau, junr. 171. B Clarke, John, 133. Wrlow, Francis, 71. Clarke William, 132. Baron, B. 180. Cocksoii, Thomas, 49. Barra, John, 44. Coignard, S, 165. Beauvais, , 163. Cole Humphry, 16, Becket, Isaac, 154. Collins, John, 132. Bettes, John, 17. Collins Richard, do. Bickham George, 164. Creed, Carey, 184, Blon, J. Christopher le, 177. Cross, Thomas, 67. Bloom, A. 43. Cunyngham, William, 13. Blooteling, Abr. 123. D. BocI, C. 46. David, Claud, 170. Boitard, L. 179. Davis, Edward le, 125. Bosc. Claude du, 163. Delaram, Francis, 27. Brie, Theodore de, 21. Delff, William, 67. Browne, J. 104. Deodegate, , 52. Burghers, Michael, 127. Dickson, J. 69. Burnford, 150. Dolle, William, 52, C. Dorigny, Sir Nicholas, 159 Drapentiere, John, 151. Cartwright Thomas, 51. Droeshout, Martin, 65.. Cecill} Thomas, 53. U^iilcY, , 74. Dudley 1 N D E X. Dudley, Thomas, 134. Dunstail, Jolin, 104 Dupuis, Charles, 162. E. Elder, William, 15 1. Elstrake, Reginald, 23> f.nglish, Mr. 173. j':ivelyn, John, 1!3. F. Faber, John, 174. Faber, John, juiir. 175. Faithorne, William, 85. Faithorne, William, junr. 98. Fillian, John, 100. Fletcher, Henry, 183. Fourdriiiicre, Peter, 185. G. Gammfln, James, 103. Gaywood, R. 72. Geminus, Thomas, 9* Gifford, George, 67. Glover, G. 58, Goddard, J. 69. Gravelot, Henry, 181. Green, John, 186. Gribelin, Simon, 158. Guernier, Lewis dii, 164. H. Hertocks, A. 69. Hoefnagle, George, 20. Hogenbevg, Francis, 12, Hogenberg, Reniigius, 11. Hole, William, 46. Hollar, Wencenslaus,, 65„ Hoiidius, Henry, 48. HondiMj Jodg£Us, 47, Hiilett, J. 56. Hulsbcrg, Henry, 174. J- Johnson, T. 165. K. King, Daniel, 166. King, George, do. Kjp, John, 165. Kirkall, Edward, 175. L. Laguerrc, John, 185. Lens, Bernard, 171, Lightfoot, — — , 126, Lodge, William, 79. Loggan, David, 1 18. Lombart, Peter, 100. Lhuyd, Humphrey, 13. Lutterell, Mr. 153. M. Marshall, William, 56. Meighan, R. 53. Moore, Samuel, 172. Morgan, , 103. N. Nicholas, S. 167. Norden, John, 45, Nutting, Joseph, 83. O Oliver, Isaac, 150. F, - Pass, Crispin, 29. Pass, Crispin, junr. 33» Pass, Magdalen, 37. Pass, Simon, 38. Pass, William, 34, Payne, John, 42. / Peachami Henry, 59. Pine, John, 182. Place, Francis) 74. Pond, Arthur, 182. Porter, Thomas, 45. Preston, Thomas, 184. Pricke, Robert, 74. R. Reynold, Nicholas, 19. Rogers, William, 18. Rotermans, , 71. Rupert, Prince, 105. Ryther, Augustine, 19. S. Savage, J. 77. Savery, S. 68. Saxton, Christopher, 19. Scotin, , 173. Sherwin, William, 82. Simon, John, 178. Simpson, Joseph, 167. Skillman, William, 104. Slater, T. 66, Smith, John, 156. Soly, Arthur, 148. Stent, Peter, 50. Stock, H. 66. Sturt, John, 151. Switzer, Christopher, 17. N D E X. T. Thacker, Robert, 103. Tompson, R. 133. V. Vaillant, Wallerant, 111. Valk, Gerard, 124. Vanderbank, Peter. 128. Vanderborcht, H. 66. Vandergutch, John, 170. Vandergutch, Michael, 169. Van Gunst, Peter, 168. Van Hove, F. H. 70. Vansomer, John, Note, 135. Vansomer, Paul, 134. Vocrst, Robert de, 60. Vostcrman, Luke, 62. Vaughan, Robert, 54. . W. Wagner, Joseph, 184. White, George, 147. White, Robert, 135. Whitwell, Charles, 46. Williams, Robert, 168. Williamson, Peter, 123. Wilson, W. 169. Winstanley, Hamlet, 148. Y. Yeates, Nicholas, 132. FINIS.