Leslie, C. R., 30, 65
Lewis, C. G., 54
Macklin’s Bible, 6
Mackenzie, Mrs., 18, 59, 68
Meteyard, Eliza, 17
Potts, Miss, 6
Raphael’s Cartoons, 45
Redgrave, Mr. R. (Crit. &c.), 65, 72
Romilly, Peter, 1
“ Sir Samuel, 1
Ruskin, Mr. (Criticisms), 63, 73, 77, 88
Simpson, Mr. W. W. (letter to), 41
Smith, Sydney (anecdote of), 60
Vernon, Mr., 64
Wilkie, Sir David, 51
Wornum, Mr. R., 17
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE, LONDON.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] An _Edition de luxe_, containing 14 extra plates from rare
engravings in the British Museum, and bound in Roxburgh style, may be
had, price 10_s._ 6_d._
[2] According to another and generally excellent authority that event
occurred in Lincoln eight years later.
[3] It is interesting to trace what may be called the technical
descent of these artists. Thus, Aliamet was a pupil of J. P. Le Bas,
who studied under Nicholas Tardieu, who learnt his art from Le Pautre
and Jean Audran. The master of the last was his uncle Gerard of the
same name, who, again, was instructed by his own father Claude and his
uncle, Charles Audran, all of them men in the foremost ranks of the
engravers. Charles, the first of the great family of “_graveurs_” named
Audran, formed his style upon that of Cornelius Bloemaert, a member
of another famous line of artists on metal, well known by his superb
plate of Guercino’s “St. Peter raising Tabitha from the Dead,” and
transcripts of Raphael’s, Titian’s, Parmigiano’s and his own father’s
(Abraham Bloemaert’s) pictures. Now, to trace the stream of skill a
little farther, and, it must be admitted, to find it getting shallow at
this point, let us add that Cornelius Bloemaert’s master was Crispin de
Pass, the younger, about whom centres the third family of engravers to
whom we have occasion to refer in this long line of tutorage. This De
Pass had a brother, William, who came to England, as also did a third
brother, Simon, the reproducer of so many “Van Dycks” and “Van Somers.”
Crispin de Pass the younger studied his craft under his father, Crispin
the elder, who had for a master Theodore Cuernhert, beyond whom, as he
was born in 1522, it is needless to carry our recollections, or trace
the art-genealogy of the instructor of John Landseer--who, almost three
hundred years after the line is first brought into sight here, taught
his sons Edwin, Charles, and Thomas.
[4] Boydell and Macklin maintained so close a rivalry that they
contended not only as publishers but by means of picture exhibitions,
the former as promoter of the “Shakespeare Gallery,” the latter as
proprietor of the “Gallery of the British Poets.” These exhibitions
contained originals of the engravings which both “patrons” published.
[5] A relation, probably, of the distinguished surgeon, one of whose
benevolent labours was that of trying to revive the hanged Dr. Dodd.
See Wraxall’s “Posthumous Memoirs,” 1836, ii. 28.
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