Engraving: Its Origin, Processes, and HistoryDelaborde, Henri, comte
History
Engraving: Its Origin, Processes, and History
Delaborde, Henri, comte
Engravers -- Great Britain; Engraving -- Great Britain; Engraving -- History
[60] A painter more generally known as Langen Jan, born at Munster in
1610, the correct name being John or Johann van Bockhorst; the name,
however, appears as above in the engraving.
[61] On the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, Bartolozzi, to the
exclusion of Strange and Woollett, was admitted one of the first forty
members with full membership; all engravers afterwards up to the year
1855 could only be elected as associate members.
[62] This engraver was in no way related to the better-known stipple
and historical engraver of the same name who flourished in the present
century.
[63] Woollett was buried in Old St. Pancras Churchyard; on a plain
tombstone which marks the spot were found one day written in pencil the
two lines--
"Here Woollett rests, expecting to be sav'd,
He graved well, but is not well engrav'd."
Shortly afterwards a subscription was raised, to which Benjamin
West and John Boydell contributed, for the purpose of erecting the
above-mentioned tablet which now stands in the West Cloister.
[64] Opie painted a life-size head of S. W. Reynolds, and of his
daughter Elizabeth as "Red Riding Hood" (exhibited at the winter
exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1876); this portrait of herself
Elizabeth engraved in mezzotint at the age of fourteen.
[65] Father of the late E. W. Cooke, R.A.
[66] Walker engraved the portrait of Raeburn with the special purpose
of proving the contrary.
[67] John Lucas, the well-known portrait painter and also engraver in
mezzotint, was likewise a pupil of Reynolds.
[68] The plate of Salisbury Cathedral was engraved at Constable's
expense and published in 1837 by Messrs. Hodgson, Graves and Co., for
the painter. After his sudden death in the same year it was sold at
Foster's, Pall Mall, in 1838, and bought in for eighty guineas, hardly
the price of two proofs at the present time.
Through the kindness of Mr. Algernon Graves, the writer has had access
to many manuscript notes written by David Lucas.
[69] Brother of Samuel Cousins, R.A.
[70] Better known in France, where he settled in 1816, he died in
the neighbourhood of Paris in 1843, and introduced there the mode of
cutting on the end of the grain instead of with the grain as was before
the practice.
[71] First introduced in 1840, although not in general practice until
some years later.
[72] On the principle of that which is known as "engine turning," as
seen on the back of watch-cases.
[73] It is also necessary to point out that no impression damaged from
course of time or printed from a worn-out plate can give any idea of
the original engraving as a work of art. Other things being equal,
proofs are primâ facie likely to be the best impressions, but a good
print (that is a later impression), if in good condition, is far more
valuable than a damaged or rubbed proof, however early the state may
be.
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