. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . osition and in tech-nique he attempted to strike a mean between Lucas vanLeyden on the one hand and Marc-Antonio on the other. In the history of engraving at Antwerp the enormiousactivity of the Antwerp art publisher, Hieronymus Cock,is of particular importance. Cock, himself a skilled en-graver and etcher, had close relations with the engraverson both sides of the Alps, and in the prints issued by THE BROTHERS VVIERIX 139 him popularised the work of the elder Breughel, as wellas that of the Italian post-classi
. Engraving and etching : a handbook for the use of students and print collectors . osition and in tech-nique he attempted to strike a mean between Lucas vanLeyden on the one hand and Marc-Antonio on the other. In the history of engraving at Antwerp the enormiousactivity of the Antwerp art publisher, Hieronymus Cock,is of particular importance. Cock, himself a skilled en-graver and etcher, had close relations with the engraverson both sides of the Alps, and in the prints issued by THE BROTHERS VVIERIX 139 him popularised the work of the elder Breughel, as wellas that of the Italian post-classical painters. During hisvisit to Antwerp Giorgio Ghisi engraved some of his prin-cipal plates for publication by Cock. Cocks pupil andassistant, Cor-nel i s C o r t,travelled laterto Italy, andwon there aposition of im-portance anddistinction. Be-sides the artistsmentioned, andothers like them,who engravedafter Italianpainters or afternative paintersworking onItalian lines—such as AdrianCollaert, PhilippGalle, Jan vanStalburch, etc.—there was a littlegroup of en-ijravers who. Fig. 63. Hieronjmus Wierix : The child Christwith the Instruments of the Passion. clung fast to the traditions of the older northern School. At the head of this group stand those remarkableengravers, the three brothers Wierix. In order to judgetheir work aright it must be clearly borne in mind thattheir native town, Antwerp, at the latter part of the I40 ENGRAVING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES sixteenth and in the seventeenth century, was the head-quarters of an artistic industry, which supplied all Catholiccountries with religious pictures, and at the same timeexported large numbers of portraits and profane the production of engravings artists of every rankfound employment: the master engraver finished theprincipal parts, leaving the accessories to his assistants;and frequently father and sons, brothers and sisters, allhandled the burin on common tasks. The brothers Jan(1549—i6i5),Hieronymus(i55i
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