Hi ttc,
Thank you for a very interesting question.
Hieronymus Cock or Kock (1507-1570) was a famous engraver and print
publisher in Antwerp in the workshop "aux quatre vents" (At The Four
Winds). He was among the earliest print publishers in the
Netherlands.
BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
(b. ca. 1525, Breughel, d. 1569, Bruxelles)
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/bio/b/bruegel/pieter_e/biograph.html
"Very few of the drawings were done on the spot, and several were done
after Bruegel's return, at an unknown date, to Antwerp. The vast
majority are free compositions, combinations of motifs sketched on the
journey through the Alps. Some were intended as designs for engravings
commissioned by Hiëronymus Cock, an engraver and Antwerp's foremost
publisher of prints.
Bruegel was to work for Cock until his last years, but, from 1556 on,
he concentrated, surprisingly enough, on satirical, didactic, and
moralizing subjects, often in the fantastic or grotesque manner of
Hiëronymus Bosch, imitations of whose works were very popular at the
time. Other artists were content with a more or less close imitation
of Bosch, but Bruegel's inventiveness lifted his designs above mere
imitation, and he soon found ways to express his ideas in a much
different manner. His early fame rested on prints published by Cock
after such designs. But the new subject matter and the interest in the
human figure did not lead to the abandonment of landscape. Bruegel, in
fact, extended his explorations in this field. Side by side with his
mountain compositions, he began to draw the woods of the countryside,
turned then to Flemish villages, and, in 1562, to townscapes with the
towers and gates of Amsterdam."
[...]
"In Brussels, Bruegel produced his greatest paintings, but only few
designs for engravings, for the connection with Hiëronymus Cock may
have become less close after Bruegel left Antwerp. Another reason for
the concentration on painting may have been his growing success in
this field."
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http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/
"Pieter Bruegel (about 1525-69), usually known as Pieter Bruegel the
Elder to distinguish him from his elder son, was the first in a family
of Flemish painters. He spelled his name Brueghel until 1559, and his
sons retained the "h" in the spelling of their names."
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http://www4.geometry.net/detail/artists/bruegel_the_elder_pieter.html
"Bruegel settled fairly early in Antwerp, where he became a master in
the painters' Guild of Saint Luke between 1551 and 1552. After a trip
to Italy, he began a longstanding association with Hieronymus Cock,
whose Antwerp publishing house, At the Four Winds, produced prints on
a range of subjects, from parables to landscapes. Between 1555 and
1563, Bruegel made over forty designs for engravings Big Fish Eat
Little Fish (1557, Vienna, Albertina) was even attributed to Bosch in
Cock's print, though all subsequent engravings were inscribed "Bruegel
inventor."
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http://www.hollstein.com/EXHIBITIONS/Galle/galle_intro.htm
"It must have been Coornhert who introduced Philips Galle in the
second half of the 1550's to the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus
Cock, whose workshop Aux quatre vents was by far the most important
print publishing enterprise in the Low Countries at that time. Galle's
first signed and dated engraving was published by Cock in 1557."
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http://www.mystudios.com/art/northern/bruegel/bruegel.html
Bruegel earned a living for many years with drawings for engravings
published by the humanist printseller, Hieronymus Cock.
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A most fascinating article with a very large image can be found at:
http://worldmapsonline.com/kr-1562-am.htm
Map of the Americas - 1562
"In 1562 Diego Gutiérrez, a Spanish cartographer from the respected
Casa de la Contratación, and Hieronymus Cock, a noted engraver from
Antwerp, collaborated in the preparation of a spectacular and ornate
map of what was then referred to as the fourth part of the world,
America. It was the largest engraved map of America to that time."
[...]
"Entitled Americae sive quartae orbis partis nova et exactissima
descriptio. (Auctore Diego Gutiero Philippi Regis Hisp. etc.
Cosmographo. Hiero Cock Excude. 1562, the map depicts the eastern
coast of North America, all of Central and South America, and portions
of the western coasts of Europe and Africa."
[...]
"The engraver of the map, Hieronymus Cock, was a Flemish artist of
recognized talent who worked in Antwerp. He has been considered one of
the most important engravers and printmakers in Europe in the
sixteenth century. In the second half of the sixteenth century,
Antwerp became the major center for the production of prints and books
in the Low Countries. Cock was the son of Jan Wellens or Willems,
alias Cock, and had a brother, Mathias Cock; they were both noted
painters. Born at Antwerp in 1510, Cock was admitted to the Guild of
St. Luke as a master painter in 1545 and later engaged in engraving
and print selling. Between 1546 and 1548 he studied in Rome, where he
was influenced by the work of the noted artists and printmakers
Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafrery. In Antwerp in 1548 Cock
established the shop Aux Quatre Vents [To the The Four Winds]. Between
1548 and the time of his death in 1570 he carried on a very successful
business, popularizing art through his engravings of the finest works
of the Dutch masters.
In 1550 Cock prepared his first engraving of ruins of Ancient Rome,
followed by twenty-four plates of the ruins in May 1554. He engraved
various works in honor of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of
Spain, including the "Pompa funebris" in 1559, depicting the funeral
cortege organized in Brussels in 1558 by Philip II in honor of his
father. Cock in 1555 engraved portraits of Philip II and Maria and
Maximillian II of Austria. He engraved a portrait of Charles V in 1556
and produced the Divi Caroli V imp. opt. max. victoriae, in 1563, a
series of twelve engravings illustrating the triumphs of that emperor.
Cock engraved several maps, including those of Leiden (1550), Piedmont
(1551), Sicily (1553), Turkey and Persia by Castaldo (1555), Siena
(1555), Ostia (1557), an Antwerp bird's-eye view (1557), Siege de
Saint-Quentin (1557), Ypres (1562), Hableneuf (1563), Malta (1565),
Bourgogne by Ferdinand de Launoy (1562), and the Holy Land by Petru
Laicksteen (1562) in addition to the 1562 America map. He engraved
several of the maps for Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,
published in 1570 by the Plantin Press in Antwerp and is cited in
Ortelius's Catalogus Auctorum Tabularum Geographicarum. His engravings
also appeared in Jacob van Deventer's Nederlansche Steden, Braun and
Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, and Sebastian Münster's
Cosmographia.
In order to invest his business with an official status and obtain
privileges, Cock had as his patron the powerful Antoine Perrenot,
Cardinal de Granvelle (1517-1586), to whom some of Cock's prints are
dedicated. His widow carried on the business after his death in 1570."
(see article)
Also see image on left side of page half way down:
Detail of the fine engraving of Hieronymus
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Prudence
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/b/bruegel/pieter_e/graphics/prudence.html
"Between 1556 and 1559, at the request of Hieronymus Cock, the
well-known publisher of prints, Pieter Bruegel made the initial
drawings for two series of engravings dedicated to the Seven Mortal
Sins and the Seven Virtues respectively. In the Brussels drawing,
which represents the cardinal virtue of Prudence, the figures are
making all kinds of provident preparations for the future, following
the recommendations of the Latin caption. "If you wish to be prudent,
set your eyes on the future and make provision for everything that can
happen"."
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Here is another image of an engraving published by Hieronymus Cock
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/recent/bosch.html
Pieter van der Heyden (Flemish, 1530-1576)
The Blind Leading the Blind, after Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch, ca. 1450-1516)
Engraving, first state of five, published by , ca. 1561
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1562 H. Cock / Lucas van Deutechum
http://oldmasterprint.com/db.htm
Subject: Episode of the story of Judith and Holofernes
Reference: Riggs 226 as Lucas van Doetechum. Signed and dated H Cock 1562.
Hieronymus Cock (1507-1570) is the famous engraver and print publisher
in Antwerp in the workshop "aux quatre vents". He was employed by
Breughel, Cort, Ghisi and very important for the early master prints
in Europe.
Technical: Superb impression on fabulous laid paper with early
watermark of a small jug with a flower in it.Timmed on or just outside
image border. Collectors mark of J.G.Wille (1715-1808) on the
back.Wille was a renomated engraver of, among other, landscapes and
this print was acquired as coming out of his inheritance.
Interest: Besides subject and signature this is above all a one in a
thousand superb early impression.
Larger image - Episode of the story of Judith and Holofernes
http://www.oldmasterprint.com/560D.jpg
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Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (1507-1570) Famous print publisher in
Antwerp in the workshop "aux quatre vents". He was employed by
Breughel, Cort, Ghisi
Publisher: Hieronymus Cock (1507-1570) Famous print publisher in
Antwerp in the workshop "aux quatre vents". He was employed by
Breughel, Cort, Ghisi
Subject: Saint John, the evangelist
Larger Image:
http://oldmasterprint.com/557D.jpg
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Historians of Netherlandish Art
http://www.hnanews.org/2002/silver.htm
"They also point to the role of both cutters of woodblocks and
publishers in both Antwerp and Nuremberg. Timothy Riggs first began
this revaluation process by focusing on the later professional
publisher of prints, by Bruegel and numerous other artists, ?Aux
Quatre Vents? in Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock.
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Hieronymous Cock Flemish, ca. 1510-1570
after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Flemish, ca. 1521-1569)
Prudentia (from The Seven Virtues), 1559
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/bayly/women/docs/wall08.big.html
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Keyword search:
Hieronymus Cock
Pieter Breughel
Kock Hieronymus
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Best regards,
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