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his works, and which, for spirit and effect, ishardly sur- tion, and from the mode of their passions, not from Engraving. 
passed by the works of any artist. their haying the wit of fine gentlemen. Sometimes he 
In landscape, besides Vivares, Woollett, and Brown, rose to tragedy, not however in the catastrophe of ki 
whom we have already mentioned, we have many fine ahd heroes, but in marking how vice conducts insensi- 
works, principally from the pictures of the old masters, bly and incidentally to misery and shame. He warns 
sg ope Wood, Elliott, Lowry, Wilson, Ma- against encouraging cruelty and idleness in young 
jor and others ; ts ca ate the taste coe Pregame eye cokyok ip oy myedend 
embellishing books with subjects of topography an e vulgar, y different paths, to the same 
and antiquities, having been carried to a most extra- end. The fine lady in Marriage a la Mode, 
vagant height, has diverted the current of British ge- and Tom Nero in the Four Stages of Cruelty, termi- 
mnsvepmnneiescey nenaed of heroic land- nate their story in blood: she occasions the murder of 
scape, and absorbed all the talent of the ish school; her husband; he assassinates his mistress, It is sel- 
Peg age om Bal y ig ll ue and inte- dom that his figures do not express the character he in= 
rest of such works), would been more worthily tended to give them. When they wanted an illustra- 
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_employed in translating the works of Claude Lorraine, tion which colours could not bestow, collateral circum~ 
Engraving in aquatinta,. which was invented by St his crutches, and his pedigree issuing from the bowels 
Non, and communicated to Le Prince of Paris t .of William the Conqueror, add to his character. In 
ed by Sandby. It has been carried spectator. Sometimes a short label is an epigram, and 
oom ) se Rea by our cotemporaries, in ing is never introduced. without improving the subject.” 
i wings ; and the process, being sim -His plates are numerous, and have all the expression 
_expeditious, and of course well adapted to commercial and character of his pictures, and are executed with 
purposes, has been much practised. The English pain- great boldness yl, sm His drawing, though not 
ve executed, are chiefly on the excelledin. It is to be regretted, that his ambition 
separate of which . prompted him, in an evil hour, to aspire to the rank of 
end is arti a historical painter—a-walk of art in which, from his 
Mezzotinto has been likewise ed with the previous pursuits, and the peculiar nature of his talents, 
. capes eeina Sue ee drawings, as (great as Has, WEN 8 heme by no means qualified 
exemplified in that ex: t work by Earlom, called . to excel. e painted several pictures in this way, 
the Liber Veritatis, being a collection of 200 plates sania aeaplen, the, grosiems igmcente. 6 Sao veqrtiniies 
Seen Spine pa 96 Clete Lartaian, jn tie collection essential to this ch the art; and are com- 
of the Duke of Devonshire. The brilliancy of the ef- pletely destitute of good taste, correctness. of design, 
fect has been rendered in an admirable style with the colouring, in short of every quality which is consider- 
mezzotinto, and the outline added with muchtruthand . ed muliapeosble in such subjects. He has likewise 
spirit, with etching. engraved them, and in a style which, though happily 
In the department of drolls. and conversations, till suited for those subjects on which his fame rests, have 
the appearance of Wilkie, the English school never turned his history into caricature. 
$e to this a dramatic - works of every description, from the largest histori 
dactic character, strong and satire, and plates to the smallest vignettes, are, with it, brought 
grammatic point. “ I consider great and origi up to considerable effect, and finished to the n 
3 with the graver ; the lights on the more delicate 
medy with a than as.apainter. If catching the — parts being tinted with the dry point. 
r ; of an age, ‘ living as they rise;— The principal instruments used in stroke engraving, 
ed by and just expressions of the passions, be ing the plate. 
» Hegedh compe comedy as. much as Mo- The a en 5 ict pla 
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inch thick, increasing a little in thickness as it ap- 
personage is dis- prone fig ote. which is made of wood. In.ma- 
I his , and cannot be _ king the incision, it is pushed forward by the hand.in 
confounded. with any other of the dramatis persone. . the direction of the line required, and held at an angle 
, the last print. of the set I _ very slightly inclined to the plane of the copper. It is 
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have mentioned, is an. ignorant. 3. and if witis . obvious, that it must be ed with only one (the 
struck out of ths characters inane is not “lower) ingle of the toa, and the point i fone by be 
ed, it is from their acting conformably to their velling off the end of the instrument. 
ind. Fiddler There are various kinds of engraving, as has already pjfferent 
by our countryman Burnet, from the pictures of that been seen; but that which is performed with the gra- kinds of en- 
eerroir na syetenene of Daitioh t which rival . ver is the oldest, and to it,’in- common language, the graving. 
strokes of na- are, the graver or burin, of which there are various ™® 
ture, and heightened by wit, and the whole maintain- sorts; a scraper, a burnisher, and a cushion for support- 
