ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the broader contours of Hieronymus Cock's publications, particularly in the area of landscape. It examines Cock's role in producing the Small Landscapes. Cock issued the Small Landscapes at the height of his engagement with landscape imagery. Prior to their publication, Cock had already produced several series of landscape prints and a handful of single-sheet landscapes. In order to heighten the atmospheric range and subtle spatial modeling of the views, Cock gravitated toward etching for his landscape publications rather than the harder, clearer technique of engraving. The Large Landscapes include Cock's first forays into non-narrative landscape as a compositional and thematic possibility in print in a way that would come to fruition just a few years later with the publication of the Small Landscapes. Prior to 1559, all of Cock's landscape publications are united by their monumental scope and significance.
