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A69993	Sculptura, or, The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works : to which is annexed a new manner of engraving, or mezzo tinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the authour of this treatise.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.; Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.; Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670. Account of Signor Giacomo Favi.	1662 (1662)	Wing E3513; ESTC R351	69,491	187

commonly sold at Rome in so many sheets likewise his St. Anthony and divers more Jacomo Palma has besides his excellent book of Drawing set forth many rare pieces very much esteem'd Andrea Mantuan graved both in Wood and Copper of his were the Triumph of our Saviour after Titian and some things in Charo oscuro after Gio di Bologna and Domenico Beccafumi whom but now we mentioned also the Roman Triumphs in imitation of Mantegna a Christus mortuus after Alexand. Casolini c. Finally towards the end of this Century appeared Augustino and Annibal Carracci most rare Painters and exquisite Engravers for indeed when these to Arts go together then it is and then only that we may expect to see the utmost efforts and excellency of the Bolino amongst the famous pieces communicated to us by these Masters we may esteem the Monelli Aeneas of Barrochio's invention and S. Hierom. After Tintoret the large and famous Crucifix of three sheets in S. Roccos school which so ravished the Painter Mercury and the Graces Sapientia Pax Abundantia chasing Mars away The Ecce homo of Correggio S. Francis of Cavalier Vanni a Venus in little with a Satyr and some other nudities with something a too luxurious Graver S. Giustina's Martyrdom of Paulo Veronezes S. Catherine and that renown'd S. Hierom of Correggio Also in Aqua fortis his brother Hannibal etched another Venus the Woman of Samaria at the well a Christ in little and a Madona with the Bambino and S. John The famous S. Roch and the spitefull coronation with thornes The Christus mortuus bewailed by the devout sex the original painting whereof hangs in the D. of Parmas Palace at Caprarvola and is in the Cut one of the tenderst and rarest things that can be imagined abating the vileness of the Plate which was most unfortunately chosen though through that accident rendred inimitable and never to be counterfeited There is likewise his Magdalen and a Landskip touch'd with the Graver a little likewise a Sylenus all of them incomparably design'd nor indeed did any of the four celebrated Artists exceed the Carracci especially Hannibal for the noblenesse and freedom of his postures bodies and limbs which he express'd in greatest perfection We may not omit the Purification which he grav'd and Villamena made in large nor the S. Anthony the Original whereof is in the Palace of Signior Francisco della Vigna at Venice nor lastly the Resurection and the two Caenaculas In the time of Sixtus Quintus and since lived Francisco Villamena a rare workman whether consider'd for the equality of his hatches which he conducted with a liberty and agreeableness suitable to the perperfection of his design as is sufficiently apparent in that famous Plate which he engrav'd after Paulo Veroneze representing Christ in the Temple or in those things after the Vatican paintings by Raphael some whereof being never finished came into a private hand The Triumphant Venus on the sea Moses some cuts after Fredrick Barroccio in Aqua fortis divers Catafalco's of excellent Architecture Ignatius Lyola the story of Psysche containing many sheets a combate of men casting stones at one another and lastly that laborious and usefull book comprehending the Historical Columne of Trajan design'd by Julio Romano and Girolan●o Mutiano which at my being at Rome then quite out of print I procur'd of his Widow who was then living but would not part with the Plates out of her sight Giovanni Maggi was an excellent Painter and Etcher as he has sufficiently discovered in his rare Perspectives Landskips and his Roma in the Larger Chartoon likewise in the nine priviledg'd and stationary Churches with the three Magi who offer presents to our Saviour in allusion to his name Leonardo Isabella and Bernardino Parasol that we may furnish all the sorts of Art in this kind cut exquisitively in wood which is a graving much more difficult because all the work is to be abated and cut hallow which is to appear white so that by a seeming paradox as the Matter diminishes the Forme increases as one wastes the other growes perfect These all flourished about the year 1560 and left us three little histories of the Salutation Visitation and St. John Baptist Also Christs washing his Disciples feet and the cuts to Castor Durantes Herbal Isabella who was his wife publish'd a book of all the sorts of Points Laces and Embroderies with other curious works for the Ladies being all of her own invention except the Frontispiece only which is Vilamenas and the Plants in the Herbal of the Prince Cesi d' Aquasporte a learned person of that Age. Lastly the son did also put forth some few things of his work but was a far better Painter in Fresco Antonio Tempesta was a most exact and rare designer for which his works are much more estimable then for the excellency of his Points and Needles he has left us of his essayes in A. F. the Histories of the Fathers the twelve Moneths of the year Roma in a very large volumne an incomparable Book of Horses another of Hunting the plates now worn out and retouch'd with the Bolino St. Hierom and a Judgement the wars of Charles the Fifth rarely perform'd the Metomorphosis of Ovid the Battails of the Je●es especially that of the Amalakites in great the Creation and Old Testament Torquato Tasso's Jerusalemma Liberata the Birds and Faulconry in Pietro Olinas Book with divers others well known and much esteemed by the Virtuosi Cherubin Alberti has celebrated h●s incomparable Graver in that presentation of our Lord in the Temple the Adam expulsed out of Paradise In the Puti divers Vasa's and other pieces which he wrought after Polydoro de Caravaggio and Michael Angelo commonly sold at Rome and universally collected Horatio Borgiani cut the History of the Bible in the Peristyle of Raphael at the Vatican so often made mention of and out of which as from a School of the noblest Science most of the great Painters of the World have since taken forth their Lessons He likewise published some things in Char ' Oscuro which were rarely heightned Raphael Guido a Tuscane engraved many pieces after Cavalier Arpino as the Flagellation Romulus Icarus The Angelus Custos Ceres Bacchus a Christus mortuus and St. Andrew the Apostle after Barroccio Jovanni Baptista della Marca put forth many divices of Shields Armour Busts and Trophies cut in wood To these we might add those excellent things of Camillo Graffico and Cavalier Salimbene Anna Vaiana with innumerable more But we have yet other fruitfull Countries to visit to whose praises we must be just only we may not forget the incomparable Stephano Della Bella a Florentine Painter now or lately living whose intire collection in A. fortis is deservedly admir'd and here in particular to be celebrated by me in acknowledgment of some obligation I have for his civilities abroad And of this Artist's works flowing and most luxurious for invention are those things which in imitation of Callot

he did in little being yet very young As the Scaenes and dances of the Horses at the Marriage of the Duke of Tuscany Compartimenti Cartells Ornaments and Capricios for Carvers and Embroderers A book of Gobbi and divers Vasa's Landskips in Rounds and others A book of Beasts done exceedingly to the natural The principles of Designe Heads and other touches very rare and full of spirit several pieces of our Lady Christ St. Joseph c. Jacobs descent into Aegypt The Procession and Exposure of the Sacrament where there is an Altar of curious Architecture inrich'd with festival Ornaments The Cavalcado of the Polonian Embassadour into Rome with divers other proceedings Pieces of Polonians Persians and Moores on Horseback breathing a rich and noble fanc● Also Seiges Engines for War with Skirmishes Land and Sea Fights The Metamorphosis of Ovid The Sultana and her son taken by the Knights of Malta and to conclude for there is no end of his Industry the Prospect of the Pont Neuf at Paris then which there is not certainly extant a more lively representation of the busie Genius of that Mercurial Nation nor a piece of greater variety as to all encounters and accidents which one can imagine may happen amongst so numerous a people and concourse of Mankind Lastly for they were likewise some of them Gravers in Copper and very rare Chalcographers we must not omit to make honourable mention here of those incomparable Sculptors and Cutters of Medails whither in Gemms or Metals such as were besides those we touch'd in the former chapter Vittor Gambello Giovanni dal Cavino the Padouan and a Son of his Benevento Gellini Leone Aretino Jacopo da Tresso Fred. Bonzagna and above all Gio. Jacopo who have almost exceeded at least approach'd the Antients To these may we add Giovanni da Castel Bolognese Matteo dal Nasaro Giovanni dal Cornivole Domenica Milaneze Pietro Maria de Pescia Marmita and Ludovico his Son Valerio Vincentino who had been in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth and left a Sardonix which he cut representing the head of that famous Heroine inferiour to none of the Antients There was likewise Michelino who with the above named Ludovico and Vincentino had so accurarely counterfeited the antient Medails that the most knowing Antiquaries were often at a losse to distinguish them Such were also Luigi Arichini Alessandro Caesari called the Greek so much celebrated for that stupendious Medalion of Paul the Third and the head of Photius the Athenian which he cut in an Onix comparable by the Universal Suffrages to any of the Antients We could reckon up the works also of many of the rest but it is not requisite after we have given this tast and would merit an expresse Treatise Likewise those of Antonio de Rossi Cosimoda Trezzo Philippo Negarolo Gaspar and Girolamo Mis●roni Pietro Paulo Galcotto Pastorino di Sienna not omitting that famous Pharodoxus of Milan Fran. Furnius and Severus of Ravenna c. whose works were in Gold Silver Copper Steel Achates Cornelians Onixes Christal Jasper Heliotrope Lazuli Ametheistis c. yea and to shew how much some of those Modern Masters exceeded the Antients even the Diamond that hitherto insuperable gemme was subdu'd by the famous Treccia of Milan who with stupendious successe cutting the King of Spains Armes in a Noble Table was the first that ever engrav'd or made impression into that Obdurat stone It will become such to be well acquainted with these Masters Labours and their manner who aspire to be knowing and to improve their Judgment in Medaills and Intaglias that necessary Ornamental and Noble piece of Learning and not only to be well skill'd in their way of design but to be able also to perform something in the Art themselves For such were those ingenious and Illustrious Spirits Geo. Battista Sozini of Sienna and Rosso de Giugni of Florence Gentlemen of note and such with us is our Noble and worthy Friend Elias Ashmole Esq whose Learning and other excellent qualities deserve a more glorious inscription Finally that excellent Medalist Mounsieur Roti now entertain'd by his Majesty for the Mint and a rare Workman as well for Intaglias in stone as Metal is not to be here omitted We shall speak in the next of those Germans and Flemmings who excell'd in the Art of Chalcography not that they have exceeded some of the French but because they were before them and Universally admired of these the Antesignani were the foremention'd Albert Durer that Prodigie of science whose works we have already recounted upon occasion of Marco Antonio and therefore shall here forbear the repetition as also those of Lucas whose works consisting in all of about Lxx. sheets and which I have known sold for near an hundred pounds sterling to one that as well understood the value of mony as of that rare Collection he being one of the greatest Merchants of Books in Europe are to be taken blind fold as they say provided the impressions be black well conserved of equal force and not counterfeit as there are several of them which be discernable only by the curious and accurately skilfull For such amongst others of Durers are the Creation of Adam the story of Lot Susanna The Crucifix which he cut in a small round plate of Gold for the Emperours sword and is fixed on the pummel not before mention'd his arm'd Cavalier and Satyre and indeed almost all that ever He or Lucas graved and set forth The Works of Aldegrave who came very near Albert and flourish'd about the same Age are worthy the Collection His pieces are distinguish'd by the Cypher of his initial Letters * in imitation of Durer as likewise the Author of the septem opera misericordiae stories of the book of the Kings Artemisia c. whose gravings are countersign'd with G.P.I.B. publish'd the four Evangelists Adam a Country fellow a Bishop a Cardinal Satyrs c. M. the Prodigal son the Evangelists c. some whereof are Copies after Albert and most of their works done in small plates Hans Sibald ●eme hath done wonders in those small figures stones and nakeds which he publish'd it shall not be requisite to recite here the Catalogue because his mark I-S-B is fixed to most of his works though now and then profan'd by the hands of others Jerome Coach a Flemming cut a Moses 32 sheets of the story of Psyche design'd by one Michael a Painter of the same Country very rarely conducted Also Dalila and Samson The destruction of the Philistims the Creation of Adam c. 27 Stories of the Old Testament nobly design'd by Martino and as well graved Also the History of Susanna Another book of the Old and New Testament The Triumph of Patience a rare Cut the Heart on the Anvile and divers Emblems full of curious Figures many sacred Triumphs Fraud Avarice a Bacchanalia and a Moses after Bronzini in emulation whereof Gio. Mantuano publish'd his Nativity an incomparable print after which Jerome graved

of Rome in an ample forme and a large Map of Italy the Old and New Testament the Church of Strasburge an harmony 'twixt the Decalogue and the Lords prayer very ingeniously represented in Picture with severall other things laudably performed But his son Frederic did infinitly exceed the Father as may be seen by those many curious Gravings which he has cut after Pietro Beretin Corton and the famous Andrew Saccus egregious Painters Sanredamus did publish many excellent cuts especially those which he coppied after Lucas van Leiden of which we have formerly given a hint for their sakes who are collectors of these curiosities and may not happly be yet arriv'd to the judgment of being able to discerne them from the Originals Also some things after Goltzius Cornelius Galle in his St. Priscas Baptism Papenheim's and other heads after V. Dyke has shew'd what he was able to perform not to mention abundance of Frontispeices and other lesse considerable of his workes But the Count Cloud● a Knight of the Palatinat has publish'd though very few yet some stupendious things especially that of our B. Saviours flight into Aegypt by night the story of Tobit and about three or four more worthy of all admiration Swanevelts History of St. John with divers Landskips Pandern's descent from the Crosse Mattham's Christ and St. Jo●n a Venus after Rotenhamer Pope Innocent X. c. Branchorsts rare Etchings especially those Ruines and Anticalias of Rome and superiour to all the incomparable Landskips set forth by Paul Brill some of which have been Etched in Aqua fortis by Nieulant do extreamly well merit to be placed in this our Theater For to be brief because we can only recite the most remarkable and worthy the collection Mattham is famous for Fruits Boetius or Adam Bols●erd for his Rusticks after Blomaert Londerselius has taken excessive pains in his Landskips and so has Van Velde in some few but above all Nicholas de Bruyn after Aegidius Coninxlogensis is wonderful for Boscage and the industry of his undertaking works of that large Volume which Theodore de Bry resembling him in name has been as famous for contracting though both of them of a Dutch heavy spirit and perfectly suting with the times and places notwithstanding has this latter performd some things in little very laudably Nor with lesse ingratitude amongst others may we forget the Nova reperta of Stradanus by Theodor Galle who also published the whole processe of making silk of the worm and certain other works in Manufacture all of them represented in Sculpture Mallery in his Peccati fomes after Mic. de Vos has perf●rm'd wonders as to the subtilty and imperceptible ductus of the Graver Bols●ert set forth the Sacra Eremus Asceticarum after Blomart and others but above all is he to be celebrated for those rare heads and other stories graved after the Paintings of Rubens and Van Dyke which for their sakes who are dilligent collectors of the renouned persons of the late Age we shall not think amiss to mention Such were the Dutchesse of Orleans Arch Duke Albert Justus Lypsius and others after Van Dyke Lessius and Bellarmine Jesuites after Dipenbec after the same hands did Paulus Pontius grave the head of Sigismund Kind of Poland Count Pimentelo c. after Rubens Don phil de Gusman Don Alvar Buzan an incomparable cut Don Car. de Colunna Rubens picture bare headed for there is another in a hat Gasp de Grayer Simon de Vos Maria de Medices Caesar Alexand Scaglia Const Hugens the learned Father of our most ingenious Friend Monsieur Soylecom so worthily celebrated for his discoveries of the Annulus about Saturne the Pendule clocks and universal Mathematical Genius Gasper Garartius the Lawyer Gasp Revestyn Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden Jacobas de Breuch the Princesse of Brabonson that rare head of Frederic Henric Prince of Orenge and his own with many more after Van Dyke besides the Jesuit Canisius R. Urbin Painter and others whom he grav'd after Diepenbec c. And since we mention'd Sir P. Paule Rubens we may not pretermit those many excellent things of that great Polititian a learned and extraordinary person set forth in so many incomparable Gravings by the admirable works of Suannebourg the above named Pontius and Bolswert Nesse Vosterman Vorst and other rare Masters in this Art Such are to instance in some only his battail of the Amazons St. Roch our B. Saviour composs'd to Burial the Fight of Lyons his great Crucifix Conversion of S. Paul St. Peter in the ship a Nativity the Magi The bloody Catastrophe of Cyrus Solomons first Sentence St. Catharines espousals the tribute demanded of our Lord Susanna and the Elders St. Laurence Martyr'd the Palaces of Genoa with divers others to be encountr'd amongst the Merchants of Prints whosrequently vend the copies for the originals to the lesse wary Chapmen Chr. Jeghre has cut the Temptation of our Saviour in wood very rarely perform'd after this great Master And besides the former mention'd Lucas Vosterman and Vorst are never to be forgotten so long as the memory of his Schollar Sir Ant Van Dyke is famous for the heads of Marquesse Spinola Char. de Mallery Horatius Gentilescus Jo. Count of Nasaw Van Milder P. Stevens and Cor. Sachtleven which he engrav'd after a new way of Etching it first and then pointing it as it were with the Burine afterwards which renders those latter works of his as tender as Miniature and such are the heads of Van Dyke himself Jo. Livens Cor. Schut Corn. de Vos Deodat del Mont Luca● van Uden Jodocus de Momper Wencest Coeberger Painters Count de Ossono Duke of Bavaria the Arch-Dutchesse Clara the last Duke of Orleans Anton. Connebison P. Stevens and many others together with those other pieces of History viz. the Sepulture of Christ and S. George after Raphael Magdalene under the Crosse our B. Saviour in his Agony after Carraccio the Susanna St. Laurence and what but now we mention'd after Rubens divers heads after Holbein as that of Erasmus the D of Norfolk and others of the Arundelian collection Van Vorst Competitor with Vosterman has likewise graven a number of Heads after Vandyke I shall only name the learned Sr. Kenelme Digby in a Philosophical habit our famous Architect Inego Jones and those two incomparable figures of Charles the Martyr and his Royal Consort the Q Mother now living And to shew what honour was done this Art by the best of Painters Sr. Ant. Vandyke did himself etch divers things in A. Fortis especially a Mad●na Ecce Homo Titian and his Mistress Erasmus Roterodamus and touched several of the heads before mentioned to have been grav'd by Vosterman After this great Masters paintings did Peter de Jode grave the Effigies of Genovefa Widdow to Car. Alex. Duke of Croi Paulus Helma●ius the Learned Puteanus the Bishop of Gendt the face whereof is thought to be Etched by V. Dyke himself he graved Jo. Snellinx a

for the Inventor twelve great sheets of Sorceresses the Battails of Charolus the V. and for Verese a painter the Perspectives which pass under his name with 20 leaves of several Buildings besides the St. Martine in a book full of Devils For Girol Bos the Alchimist the seven deadly Sins the last Judgment a Carnoval and after Francis Floris ten pieces of Hercules Labours the Duel of the Horatii and Curatii the Combate of the Pigmies and Hercules Cain and Abel Abraham the Decission of Solomon between the two Harlots and in summe all the actions of humane life And now that we mention'd Francis Floris of Antwerp the rare things which he publish'd in stamp purchas'd ●im 〈◊〉 name of the Flemmish Michael Angelo Of the same Country was that incomparable Cornelius Cort we will commence with the Judgment of Michael Angelo which he cut in little Most of his things were after Frederic Zucchari and some few of Raphaels besides his Landskips and other Gravings after Girolam Mutiano which are very excellent Also John Baptist St. Hierom St. Francis Mary Magdalen St. Eustachius the Lapidation of S. Stephen design'd by Marco Venusto the M●●●uan A Nativity after Thadeo Zuccharo St. Anne c. Also a Nativity in great after P●lydore The Transfiguration The school at Athens The Battail of Elephants some Gravings after Don Julio Clovio and Titian which had they been accompanied with that tenderness and due observation of the distances that accomplish'd the succeeding Gravers had render'd him immortal so sweet even and bold was his work and design in all other considerations We mention'd Titian for about 1570. Cor. Cort did use to work in that famous Painters house and Graved for him that Paradise he made for the Emperour St. Lazarus Martyrdom Calis●e and the Nymphs Prometheus Andromeda the fore-nam'd Magdalen in the desart and St. Hierom all of them of Titians invention We come now to Justus John Aegidius and Ralph Sadelers who lived in the time of the Emperour Rodulphus and publish'd their almost numberless labours we can therefore instance but in some of the most rare such as were that Book divided into three parts 1. Imago bonitatis 2. Boni mali scientia 3. Bonorum malorum Consensio design'd by Martin de Vos The Vestigia of Rome tenderly and finely touch'd in 50 sheets The 12 Roman Emperours and Emperesses after Titian rarely graved by Giles a Madona with our Saviour and St. Joseph after Raphael Christus Flagellatus and the head of Rodulphus II. with various capriccios and inventions about it as also that of the Emperour Mathias adorn'd with the chaplet of Medails the calling of S. Andrew by John and Giles in brotherly emulation Four books of Eremites admirably conducted by Raphael a caena Domini after Tintoret and another Flagellation of Arpino's Divers Landskips The 12 Moneths the great Hall at Prague the Effigies of Martin de Vos by Aegidius The Emperour and Empresse in their Robes of State an Adoration of the Magi after Zuchari Adonis and Venus after Titian a Crucifix after Jac. Palma a Resurection in great the rich Epulo St. Stephens Lapidation the Original whereof is at Friuli a S. Sebastian These by Giles John engrav'd after M. de Vos a scholar of Tintortes already mentioned the Creation and many histories out of Genesis Ralph cut also the Life of Christ the Credo by way of Embleme In summe for their whole collection is not to be crouded into this Catalogue they have all of them published such incomparable gravings that 't is the greatest pitty in the world they had not flourished in the time of the great Raphael and the good Masters for they were not only accurate and punctual imitators but gave to their works that softnesse life and Colore as Artists terme it which accomplishes all the rest Especially John and Raphael in what they graved after Mich. de V●s Bassano and others whose Rusticities they set forth those of Aegidius in great being a descent from the Crosse of Barrecci●s invention the other a Flagellation design'd by J●sepho Pin can never be sufficiently celebrated After the Sadelers appeared He man Muller with a very bold Bulino and likewise Janus who graved many things after Sprangers worse chosen for the convulsive and even Demo●●●● postures 〈◊〉 ●xecuted But the imitations of the Graver by Simon Frisius the Hollander who wrought with the Aqua fortis of the Refiners are altogether admirable and inimitable the stroke and conduct consider'd had the design excepting those of his Birds which are indeed without reproch contributed in any proportion to his dexterity After him came the Swisse Matthew Miriam who had he perform'd his heightnings with more tendernesse and come sweetly off with the extremities of his hatchings had proved an excellent Master His works are useful and innumerable in Towns Landskips Battails those especially fought by the great Gustavus c. the Sost Vernish and separating A. F. was the instrument he used We have seen some few things cut in Wood by the incomparable Hans Holbein the Dane but they are rare and exceeding difficult to come by as his licentiousnesse of the Friers and Nuns Erasmus the Daunce Macchabree the Mortis imago which he painted in great in the Church at Basil and afterward graved with no lesse art and some few others But there is extant a book of several Figures done in the same material by one Justus Ammannus Tigur MDLXXVIII which are incomparably design'd and cut In the Epistle whereof one Holtzhusen a Gentleman of Frankfort is commended for his universal knowledge and particularly his rare talent in this Art which it is there said he shewed by wonderful contrivances at the celebration of Martin Luthers Nuptials and therefore worthy to be taken notice of Hans Brossehaemer besides several other things hath cut in wood a triumph of the Emperour Maximilian into Neuremberge Vergilius Solis graved also in wood the story of the Bible and the Mechanic Arts in little but for imitating those vile postures of Aretine had his eyes put out by the sentence of the Magistrate Henry Golzius was a Hollander and wanted only a good and judicious choice to have render'd him comparable to the profoundest Masters that ever handled the Burin for never did any exceed this rare workman witnesse those things of his after Gasparo Celio the Gallatea of Raphael Santio and divers other pieces after Polydor da Carravaggio a Hierom Nativity and what he did of the Acts of the Apostles with Ph. Galle c. but he was likewise an excellent painter George Nouvolstell was of Mentz in Germany an admirable Graver in Wood he publish'd that Aeneas in little and some Historical parts of the Bible very well perform'd also divers of the Fathers after Tempesta besides the Jerusalemma liberata of Bernardino Castelli in Quarto with many Cartels of Armes and Harnesses and some Pictures to a Breviary c. Mathew Greuter publish'd a curious book of Letters the City