[146] La Calcografia propriamente detta, ossia L’Arte d’incidere in Rame coll’ Acqua-forte, col Bulino e colla Punta: Ragionamenti letti nelle adunanze dell’ I. R. Istituto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte del Regno Lombardo-Veneto. Da Giuseppe Longhi. Vol. I. Concernénte la Teorica dell’ Arte. Milano, 1830.--The death of the author the following year prevented the completion of his work; but in 1837 a supplementary volume on the Practice of the Art, by Carl Barth, appeared in connection with a translation by him of Longhi’s volume, under the title, _Die Kupferstecherei oder die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen und zu ätzen_. (No translation has been made into French or English.) This rare volume is in the Congressional Library, among the books which belonged originally to Hon. George P. Marsh, our excellent and most scholarly Minister in Italy. I asked for it in vain at the Paris Cabinet of Engravings, and also at the Imperial Library. [147] La Calcografia, p. 31. [148] La Calcografia, pp. 8-13. [149] La Calcografia, p. 71. [150] “Ich bin dazu geboren, dass ich mit den Rotten und Teufeln muss kriegen und zu Felde liegen; darum meine Bücher viel stürmisch und kriegerisch sind. Ich muss die Klötze und Stämme ausreuten, Dornen und Hecken wegbauen, die Plätzen ausfüllen, und bin der grobe Waldrechter, der Bahn brechen und zurichten muss. Aber M. Philipps fahret säuberlich und stille daher, bauet und pflanzet, säet und begeusst, mit Lust, nachdem Gott ihm hat gegeben seine Gaben reichlich.”--_Vorrede auf Philippi Melanchthonis Auslegung der Epistel an die Colosser_: Sämtliche Schriften, (Halle, 1740-53,) 1 Theil, coll. 199-200. [151] Vite, (Firenze, 1857,) Vol. XIII. p. 39. [152] La Calcografia, pp. 99-100, note. [153] “Se cieca fede prestarsi dovesse alle decisioni dell’Enciclopedia metodica, noi dovremmo ammirare in Cornelio Wisscher il corifeo dell’arte nostra, dicendo essa, che gli artisti s’accordano in aggiudicargli la palma dell’incisione.”--_La Calcografia_, p. 144. [154] XVIe et XVIIe Siècles, p. 122. [155] Les Homines Illustres, Tom. II. p. 97.--The excellent copy of this work in the Congressional Library belonged to Mr. Marsh. The prints are early impressions. [156] La Calcografia, p. 116. [157] Ibid., p. 165, note. [158] Something in this success is doubtless due to Le Brun, whom Nanteuil translated,--especially as an earlier portrait of Pomponne by him is little regarded. But it is the engraver, and not the painter, that is praised,--thus showing the part which his art may perform. There is much in this portrait, especially in the eyes, to suggest the late Sir Frederick Bruce, British Minister at Washington, who, when a youth in the diplomatic suite of Lord Ashburton, was called by Mr. Choate “the Corinthian part of the British Legation.”