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meer thoonen can/ Als t'gen' ons Theodor heeft weten
voorts te bringhen/ Midts Gall s
ghesneden heeft meest
naer sijn teeckeninghen./ En naer veel ander meer
sulckx dat zijn weerdigheyt/ Op plaet bekent sal staen
noch veel en langhe eeuwen/ Door d'edel Kunst van GalT
vol soete soetigheyt/ Daer Faern met reden op de wereldt
door mach schreeuwenIbid., p. 480 (Cornells Galle the
Elder): "Cornelis Galle Den ouden/ Plaedt-snijder van
Antwerpen,/ Men acht op dese Aerdt gheen wcreldtsche
juweelen/ soo seer als Konstenaers, Paletten en
Pïnseelen,/ Graef-yser, pen en kol', om al hun vremde
kracht/ Die door een konstich handt van elck wordt voort
ghebracht./ Daer Gall' een proef van is door de ghesne­
den belden/ Die sijnen weerden naem de wereldt door
vermelden/ Om datmen daer in siet sulck een besielden
gheest/ Als in Papiere-Konst is oyt te sien gheweest,/Voor
wiens vroom ghemoedt al menich gheest moet buyghen/
Soo als de wercken van sijn handt ghenoch ghetuyghen/
Te siende wereldt door by Kenders vande Kunst/ Wat
dienter meer gheseyt, de Gunst en soeckt gheen gunst"
Ibid,p. 480 (Cornells Galle theYounger):"Cornelis Galle
Den longhen/ Plaedt-snijder van Antwerpen./ Hoe
gheestich heeft den Soon op d'aenbeldt vanden raedt/
Des Vaders, sijn verstandt ghesmeedt, om t'achterhalen/
De wetenschap die in het plaedtsnijden bestaedt/ Waer
op men heden-daeghs oock sijnen roem siet praelen:/ De
rechte weer-gae van zijn Vaders kloecken aerdt/
Ghelijckheyt inden glieest, manier en soete seden/ Die
worden vanden Soon oock op de plaedt ghebaert/ En van
sijn rappe handt naer t'leven soo ghesneden/ Dat niet als
t'leven selfs aen zijne Konst ghelijckt/ Wat canmen
meerder lof vanjemandcs werckbeschrij ven/Want t'ghen
dat over al ghenoch in printen blijckt/ En mach by onse
Paem oock niet vergheten blijven."
18. Evelyn 1906, p. 70.
19. Baldinucci 1686, p. 37. In contrast to several
other authors from the late seventeenth century onwards,
Baldinucci was as such not biased against 'reproductive 5
engravers. In the chronological introduction to his
Cominciamento he praises prinmxakers as Hieronymus
Cock and Cornelis Cort. His choice of biographies also
includes Johannes, Raphael and Aegidius Sadeler, as well
as Jan Saenredam.
20. Le Conue 1699-1700, vols. 2 and 3, passim.
Le Comte's treatise was, by the way, rather popular in
Holland in the eighteenth century, judging by the two
Notes Chapter 1
149
editions in the Dutch language that were published
(Utrecht 1744-45 andDordrecht 1761).These contain no
additional information on Galle.
21. Van Heurck 1930, p. 71 .The only large groups
of copperplates from the Galle workshop known to have
survived until now, are those that were owned institutions
such as the Trappist cloister at Westmalle; see chapter 4,
note 282. Another collection of plates that survived at least
until the eighteenth century was a large ensemble of
Galle's portraits of scholars; see chapter 2, note 11. On the
value of engraved copperplates, see the well documented
case of the Offkina Plantiniana,Voct 1969-72, vol. 2. pp.
231-232. Also see Orenstein 1992, pp. 108-119 and
Orenstein 1993-94, pp. 170-171. In the last publication
the authors characteristically end their account of man­
nerist plates with the mention of the Amsterdam pub­
lisher Cornelis Danckertss shop inventory of 1668 -
matching very well with the Johannes Galle inventory of
1676.
22. There was in fact a public sale of the plates
scheduled on 15 February 1677.The sale was later post­
poned to March 8. Also see below.
23. Brejon de Lavergnee 1979, p. 33. On the
engraving, see Hollstein, vol. 2, p. 59, no. 17; ibid., vol. 7,
p. 76, no. 103;TIB.56,p. 121, no. 33:1 andjost 1960, pp.
177-178, no. 18.There are, however, also indications that
at least some biblical series were reissued by eighteenth-
century Antwerp publishers: Jan Bapnste Verdussen in
1714 and Cornelis Martin us Spanoghe in 1783 published
pictorial bibles which contained impressions of series from
the Galle workshop, all still with the address of Johannes
Galle. I owe this observation to the remarks on pictorial
bibles from the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
in Marianne Snijders's doctoral thesis (Free University,
Amsterdam), kindly put at my disposal by the author;
Snrjders 1992, pp. 45-51
24. See: Marolles 1677 (who does not mention
Philips Galle at all), Basan 1767 (who only mentions the
elder Galle, in contrast to his sons Cornells andTheodoor,
in passing in volume 1) and die posthumously published
Mariette 1851-60 (who apparently had no interest in
Philips Galle at all).
25. Heinecken 1778-90. On Hemecken, his
Dictionnaire - which was intended to be a complete his