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to 1536. We also find it in a print of a single figure standing, 

 holt' in;* a cnp an. I looking upwards, by Ginlio Canipagnolj, who 

 engraved about the ye r 15 1 6. Th j back ground is executed with 

 round d<ts, made appari nlly with a dry point. The figure is out. 

 lined with a stroke deeply engraved, and finished with dots, in a 

 manner greatly resemb'ing those prints which Demarteau engraved 

 at Paris in imitation of red chalk. The hair and beard are expres- 

 sed by strokes. Stephen de Laulne, a native of Germany, fol. 

 lowed the steps of Campagnola ; an<l many <>' his slight works are 

 executed in dots only. John Boulan^er. a French artist, vho flou- 

 rished in the middle of the last century, and his contemporary Ni. 

 cholas Van Plattenberg. improved greatly on this method, and prac- 

 tised it with much success, ft is only, however, of late, that it 

 has been considered as an obj- .t worthy of general imitation. John 

 Lutma executed this kind of work with a hammer and a small 

 punch or chisel. Engraving in mezzotinto was invented about the 

 middle of the seventeenth century ; and the invention has gene* 

 rally been attributed to prince Rupert. Engraving in aqua, 

 tinta is quite a recent invention, and seems at once to have been 

 carried to perfection by Sanriby, and other artists of the present 

 age. Engraving with the tool was the kind originally prac. 

 tised, and it is yet retained for many purposes. For though 

 etching be more easy, and other advantage- attend it; yet where 

 great retularity and exactness of the stroke or lines are required, 

 the working with the graver is much more effectual : on which 

 account it is more suitable to the precision necessary in the 

 execution of portraits ; as there every thing the most .inure 

 must be made out and expressed according to the ;.ri$!n.tl sub. 

 ject, without any licence to the fancy of the designer in uVviar. 

 ing from it, or varying the effect either by that masterly negl.^nce 

 and simplicity in some parts, or tho?e hold sallies of the imugi. 

 nation and hand in others, which give spirit and force to hisiory 

 painting. 



Historical engravings for the port folio an^l furniture seemed at 

 one period to advance rapidly towards perfection, to which the 

 late alderman Boydell lately contributed ; but the death of Strange, 

 Hall, and Woollet, have been almost fatal to the hopes of the ama. 

 teur, which rest, in a great measure, upon Heath, Sharp, Bromley, 

 and a few others, as in this particular instance we do not include 



