in
Lzfcrzzture
and Art.
307
be more truthful, and at the fame time more comic, than this laft fet of
fubjefts. We give, as an example of the fet of the Baroni, or beggars,
Callot's ligure of one of that particular clafs-for beggars and rogues of
all kinds were claflilied in thofc days-whofe part it was to appeal to
charity by wounds and fores artificially reprefented. In the Englilh flang
of the feventeenth century, thefe artificial fores were called clymes, and a
curious account of the manner in which they were made will be found in
that (ingular pi-Eture of the vicious claffes of fociety in this country at that
period, the " Engliih Rogue," by Head and Kirkman. The falfe cripple
in our cut is holding up his leg to make a difplay of his pretended
infirmity.
Callot remained at Nancy, with merely temporary abfences, during
the remainder of his life. In 1628, he was employed at Bruifels in
drawing and engraving the " Siege of Breda," one of the moll: Iinifhed 0t
his works, and he there made the perfonal acquaintance of Vandyck. Early
ll]