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Title: A short history of engraving (and) etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hind, Arthur Mayger, 1880-1957
Subjects: Engravers Engraving Etchers Etching
Publisher: London : A. Constable
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tions of their own, including various series of prints after paint-ings and drawings by other engravers.* The great corpus, amount- 1 Generally found prefixed to the Opere varie di Architettura, 1750. - Not having seen any plate with her signature, 1 have not included her in theindex. Pietro signed some of the plates in the Antiqidtiis de la grande Grhe (whichfirst appeared in Paris between 1804 and 1806), but seems to have been mainlyoccupied as publisher. * Francesco is said to have died in Paris 1810. Pietro seems to have returnedto Italy earlier, as he published Pirolis Bassorelievi antichi di Rovia in Rome, 1808.For contemporary reference to their Paris establishment see Magasin E?icyclopidiqtie,V. Tom. 5, p. no ; Tom. 6, p. 283 ; i.\. Tom. 2, p. 238 ; and J. F. C. Blainvillain,Le ParisiutJi, Paris, 1807-8, p. 208. * E.g. Raccolta di alcuni Disegni del Barbieri (by Bartolozzi and others, the Piranesi. PIRANESI 231 ing to twenty-seven ^ large folio volumes, was reprinted by Firmin
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Fig. 87.—G. B. Piranesi. Plate from the Carceri. Didot in Paris between 1835 and 1839. Since that time the original original series having been issued in 1764) ; Gavin Hamiltons Schola Halica PicUtrae(engravings by D. Cunego, etc., originally published 1773) ; and three series of outlineengravings by T. Piroli (who worked very largely in the Piranesis employ), after paint-ings in the Sala Borgia, Villa Lante, Farnesina, and Villa Altoviti, by Raphael, etc.1 Sometimes described as twenty-nine ; but the three series by Piroli seemed tohave formed one volume, as they do now in the R. Calcografia, Rome. 232 ETCHING IN 18th AND EARLY 19th CENTURIES jigi Rossini. plates have been acquired by the Regia Calcografia in Rome, andmodern impressions of some ii8o plates are still to be purchased.Of course the intrinsic value of these modern impressions is as smallas their actual price, but some of the stronger plates are by nomeans completely bereft of their original virtue. The mantle of the Pi

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