THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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Fig. 371. Two-line Brevier Ornamented Inclined Titling Capitals no. 834, cut by Matthias Rosart.
HILILEBRAWT JACOBSZOOM ѴАЖ WOU.
Fig. 372. Two-line Pearl Shaded Tiding Capitals no. 835, cut by Matthias Rosart.
НЕЖВЖЖ ТАМ ВЕЖ PUTTE.
Fig. 373. Two-line Long Primer Ornamented Titling Capitals No. 836, cut by Matthias Rosart.
Their inventory ascribes it to Rosart, but does not say whether to the elder or the
younger.1 In any case I rather doubt the truth of the ascription.
On the other hand, our Roman and Italic on Long Primer Nos. 8jj, 8fi, (figs. 375,376),
are, in my opinion, by the younger Rosart, though it is more than I can prove. At
one time these types were attributed to Fleischman, and they were entered in our
inventories as his ; but I cannot think of any founder for whom he could have cut
them. It was after our acquisition of the stock of Ploos van Amstel that these types
began to appear in our specimens and our lists. They may, therefore, have come
from that foundry in Amsterdam ; but, if so, it is surprising that they are not to be
found in its specimens. The punches have always been kept with the matrices,
and for that reason are likely to have been commissioned by a typefounder. The
only solution that I can accept is that the typefounder in this instance must have
been Ploos van Amstel and the punchcutter Matthias Rosart. Alternatively, if the
matrices were bought by our firm at the sale of the foundry [of J.-F. Rosart] at
Amsterdam in 1795, Matthias Rosart would still be the likeliest cutter of them.
But I can find no record of any such purchase,
jansmid Apart from the artists whom I have been discussing, I know of only one man
who tried to find work as a punchcutter in Holland during the eighteenth century.
He was Jan Smid, the man we have already met with as Johann Schmidt2 when he
was cuttingthe music-type for the famous German typefounder, Breitkopf, without
knowing that he was taking part in no less a thing than the first attempt to print
Kai Xéyav. Kopie, èXéycróv f¿ou тоѵ ùiòv, ori treXy-
ѵіа^етаі, %aì xaxòc тастуег хоХХащ yap хіхтеі
elç то тир, каі xoXXdxiç etç то uiïccp. Kai xpocrv¡-
ѵеуш aÙTÒv roîç /шѲугеис стой, каі одк у^ѵѵфушѵ
аитоѵ берахейстаі. 'Axoxpiôeiv «5е ó 'Іустойс, eìxev.
il yeveà axtçoç x.at Siegpafitiévyf, ëcoç хоте fero [¿ai
{¿eè'ùfiuç ëcoç хоте àve£o[iat ufcûv; ферете ß,oi аотоѵ
wie. Kai êxeriOfff& айтф ó 'h¡
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'JqffOU хатЧМаѵ, eìxov. Аіаті іціщ оѵл tySitrfffaf-
[іеѵ і-фаХеЪ аЬто; 'О Se 'lycouç eïxev aÙTOÎç. Aia
Fig- 374- pica Greek no. 6oi, perhaps cut by Rosart, father or son.
[1] It is shown in a specimen-book issued by Matthias Rosart in 1789, List of type-specimens No. 136.
[2] See above, p. 236.
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JAN SMID
Garmont Romein N. 2.
Bata vi, donee trans Rhenum agebant, pars Cattu¬
rimi: feditione domenica pulii, extrema Gallicae orae,
vacua cultoribus, fimulque infulam, inter vada fitam,
occupavere, quam mare Oceanus a fronte, Rhenus am-
nis tergum ac latera circumluit: nee opibus Romanis,
focietate validiorum, attriti, viros tantum armaque im¬
perio miniftrant, diu Germanicis bellis exerciti: mox
auna per Brittanniam gloria, transmiffis illuc cohorti-
bus quas vetere inftituto nobiliffimi popularium rege-
bant. Erat et domi delectus eques, praecipuo nandi
ftudio, arma equosque retinens, integris turmis Rhe
num perrumpere. Iulius Paullus, et Claudius Civilis,
re
jeftae Civile catenae, miiìusque ad Neronem, et a Gal¬
ba abfolutus, fub Vitellio rurfus difcrimen adiit, flagi-
tante fupplicium ejus exercitu.
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Fig. 375. Long Primer Roman No. 837, perhaps cut by
Matthias Rosart. Resetting of part of the type-specimen
of Johannes Enschedé en Zoonen, 1806.
Garmont Curcyf N. 2.
Sed Civilis, ultra quam bar bar i s foli tum, ingenio /oi¬
lers, et Sertorium fe, aut Hannibalem ferens, ßmil i oris
dehone fomento, ne ut ho ¡li obviam iretur, fi a populo
Romano palem defeivifet, Vespaßani amicitiam ßudium-
que partium praetendit: mi fis fane ad tum Primi Anto-
nii litt er is, quibus, avertere aceita a Vitellio auxilia,
et tumultus Germanici fpecie, retentare legiones, jube-
batur. Eadem Hordeonius Flaccus praefens monuerat,
inclinato in Vespa fianum animo, et Rcip. cura; cui ex-
cidium adventabat, fi redintegratum bellum, et tot ar¬
mât or um mi Ilia Italiam irrupiJJ'ent. Igitur Civilis,
defeifeendi certus, occultato interim altiure confi lio, ce¬
tera ex evenni judicaturas, novare res hoc modo coepit.
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tur; quem, fuapte natura gravem, onerabant miniflri
avaritia ac luxu, fenes aut inválidos conq air endo, quos
pretio dimitterent.
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Fig. 376. Long Primer Italic no. 838, perhaps cut by
Matthias Rosart. Resetting of part of the type-specimen
of Johannes Enschedé en Zoonen, 1806.
intricate instrumental music with type. We shall see that after the death or de¬
parture of all the punchcutters mentioned earlier in this chapter the cutting of
punches in this country did not quite come to an end. In the foundries of De Groot
at The Hague and Bruyn at Amsterdam we shall find types that were certainly
made here in the second half of the century. Unhappily, we cannot tell who made
them; and that is all the more regrettable for the types being of respeftable quality.
That attempts to identify the makers of these types should have failed is not sur¬
prising, for undoubtedly the reason is that their names were kept secret. Enschedé
and Ploos van Amstel had all the types that they needed, unless, perhaps, a few for
exotic scripts. De Groot, the founder who falsely boasted that his types were by
Fleischman, had an obvious reason for not divulging the name of his punchcutter.
An attempt by Jan Smid to establish a new typefoundry was a complete failure.
In 1780 he opened a business in Rotterdam and published a type-specimen-book.x
I translate part of the preface where it supplies not only an autobiography of
the typefounder but more proof of the ascendancy of Fleischman.
Besides devoting the utmost care to the cutting and founding, we shall take the greatest
pains to execute any orders that may be entrusted to us with all possible speed. To this intent
the undersigned Jan Smid has taken the undersigned Joannes Dauu into partnership and, further,
the son of the latter is being given instruction in the art of cutting punches and shows enor¬
mous promise.
It would certainly be an excess of presumption to rate our skill in this art above that of the
late Monsieur Fleischman, whose reputation is so widespread and so well deserved; but would
it not be an undue affeftation of modesty to rate ourselves too far beneath him?
The undersigned Jan Smid has devoted the whole of his life, now far advanced, to the cutting
and founding of printing-types. At the invitation of His Majesty the King of Prussia he exer¬
cised this art in Berlin for ten years; he worked for another ten at Leipzig, where he cut punches
[1] Johannes Dauu en Comp. Procf van Letteren etc. Rotterdam 1780. List of type-specimens No. 128.
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