Hieronymus Cock, or Hieronymus Wellens de Cock (1518 – 3 October 1570) was a Flemish painter and etcher as skillfully as a publisher and distributor of prints. Cock is regarded as one of the most important print publishers of his era in northern Europe. His publishing house played a key role in the transformation of printmaking from an upheaval of individual artists and craftsmen into an industry based on division of labour. His home published more than 1,100 prints between 1548 and his death in 1570, a vast number by earlier standards.
While far afield more important and influential as a publisher, Cock was afterward an performer of talent, as seen in his last series of 12 landscape etchings of 1558, which are somewhat in the wonderful style of the paintings of his brother Matthys Cock. Altogether he etched 62 plates.
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