Hendrik Hondius I

Henrik Hondius I or Hendrik Hondius the Elder (1573–1650), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, cartographer and publisher.

Biography

He was born in Duffel and settled in The Hague in 1597.^[1] According to Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet, his father was Guiliam Hondius, a learned man who moved to Mechelen, where the young Hondius learned to write.^[2] He studied first with a goldsmith in Brussels before learning to paint from Jan Wierix. Later, he learned mathematics and architecture from Hans Vredeman de Vries when he was in Leiden in 1604.^[1][2]

He was probably related to the famous cartographer Jodocus Hondius who started a map making business in Amsterdam and whose sons were named Hendrik Hondius II and William (Guiliam).

Works^[3]

• Icones virorum nostra patriumque memoria illustrium, quorum opera cum literarum studia tumvera religio fuit restaurata, ab Henr. Hondio sculptae, aeneisque typis excusae, 1599
• Praestantium aliquot theologorum qui Rom. Antichristum praecipue oppugnarunt, effigies, 1602, with Jacobus Verheiden
• With Hans Vredeman de Vries (whose portrait he engraved), a book on Perspective, Leiden, 1604-1605
• Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipue Germaniae Inferioris effigies, Hagae Comitis, 1610
• Belgiae Pacificatorum vera delinealio. Pourtraicture vraye des pacificaleurs des Pays Bas. True likenesses of the peacemakers of the Netherlands, Hagae Comitis Ex off. Henri Hondii, 1608
• Topographia variarum regionum etc. ou les vues d'après nature, by Mattheus Bril, engraved by Henri Hondius, 1611, 1614
• Pompe funèbre de Charles V, exécutée par ordre de Philippe II, Brussels, Joan à Duelecum, Luc. Duetecum fec. Hondius exec., 1619
• Korte Beschrijvinge ende afbeeldinge der generale regelen der fortificatie, der artillerie munitie ende vivres van deselver en hare commissien van de leger, aerde wallen de approchen met het legenweer ende van vyerwerken, Hagae-Comitis, 1624^[4]
• Alghemeine regelen der sterkebouw, The Hague, 1625
• Theatrum honoris in quo nostri Apelles saeculi, seu pictorum, qui patrum nostrorum memoria vixerunt, celebriorum pracipue quos Belgium tulit, verae et advivum expressae imagines in aes incisae exhibeniur, Amsterdam, 1612, 1618
• Les hommes illustres, gravés et imprimés par H.H.
• Les portraits des hérésiarques et autres hommes illustres par H. Hondius, J. Muller, J. Matham, J. Stadeler, etc.

Effigies

In 1610 he published the work Pictorum aliquot celebrium praecipue Germaniae inferioris Effigies, which included 69 portraits of artists, including an engraving of Hans Holbein.^[5] 22 of these prints were copied from an earlier work by Dominicus Lampsonius. Both works have been placed online by the Courtauld Institute of Art, with a comparison of Hondius' version to the 1572 version published by Lampsonius and the widow of Hieronymous Cock. The only portrait Hondius did not include in his 1610 version was the last one, a posthumous portrait of Cock himself. Here is the list of pages with the 69 artists (in order) of the Hondius 1610 version:

• Titlepage to Part 1, page 1
• Dedicatory Poem, page 2
• To the Lover and Hater..., page 3
• Hubert van Eyck, page 4, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Jan van Eyck, page 5, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Dirk Bouts, page 6, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Hieronymus Bosch, page 7, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Rogier van der Weyden, page 8, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Bernard van Orley, page 9, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Joachim Patinir, page 10, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Quentin Matsys, page 11, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Cornelis Engebrechtsz., page 12
• Jan Mabuse, page 13, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Jan van Amstel, page 14, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Pieter van Aelst, page 15, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, page 16, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Matthys Cock, page 17, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Herri met de Bles, page 18, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Joos van Cleve, page 19, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Jan van Scorel, page 20, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Lambert Lombard, page 21, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder, page 22, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Willem Key, page 23, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Lucas Gassel, page 24, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Frans Floris, page 25, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Albrecht Dürer, page 26
• Lucas van Leyden, page 27, Compare side by side with 1572 version
• Hans Holbein the Elder, page 28
• Heinrich Aldegrever, page 29
• Jacob Binck, page 30
• Pieter Aertsen, page 31
• Joachim Beuckelaer, page 32
• Maarten van Heemskerck, page 33
• Anthonie van Montfoort, page 34
• Frans Pourbus the Elder, page 35
• Hubert Goltzius, page 36
• Dirck Barendsz, page 37
• Hans Bol, page 38
• Antonis Mor, page 39
• Hendrick Van Cleve, page 40
• Christian van den Queborn, page 41
• Cornelis Visscher, page 42
• Crispin van den Broeck, page 43
• Joos van Winghe, page 44
• Gillis Mostaert, page 45
• Joris Hoefnagel, page 46
• Michiel Coxie, page 47
• Aert Mijtens, page 48
• Marten de Vos, page 49
• Hans Vredeman de Vries, page 50
• Gillis van Coninxloo, page 51
• Karel van Mander, page 52
• Stradanus, page 53
• Bartholomeus Spranger, page 54
• Cornelis Ketel, page 55
• Johannes de Water, page 56
• Hendrik Goltzius, page 57
• Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, page 58
• Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, page 59
• Otto van Veen, page 60
• Paul Bril, page 61
• Cornelis van Haarlem, page 62
• Jacob de Gheyn II, page 63
• Abraham Bloemaert, page 64
• Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink, page 65
• Joos de Momper, page 66
• Floris van Dyck, page 67
• Adriaen de Vries, page 68
• Frans Badens, page 69
• Adam Elsheimer, page 70
• Isaac Oliver, page 71
• Post Funera Vita, page 72

References