Andries Jacobsz. Stock (Andreas Stockius) was a Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and publisher. He was active in The Hague from 1614 to 1648, but he was in Amsterdam in 1626 where he was imprisoned for alleged counterfeiting. He is known for title pages, portrait prints and illustrations.
The Latin inscription reads: The portrait of Lucas van Leyden, the incomparable painter and engraver, when he was fifteen years old, depicted from a portrait by his own hand. He died in Leiden in the year 1533 at the age of thirty-nine.”
In Delft in 1593, Nicolaes Jansz de Clerck, a native of Lier in Flanders, brought out a number of prints by or after Jacques de Gheyn the Younger and also most of the prints by his son Jacques de Gheyn III. These artists made the drawings and engraved the plates (or had somebody else to do that), after which De Clerck pulled the prints and saw to their distribution. The Witches’ Sabbath was a famous print from De Clerck’s presses, which was engraved by Andries Stock after a drawing by Jacques de Gheyn the Younger. Subject, dimensions, and execution make this work one of the mightiest products of graphic art.
