ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



in the ordinary impreffions of this plate, the fmall and dif- 

 taut wild boar hunt is fcarcely feen . It is a folio, and of the 

 frieze proportions. " A double Rock in the Middle of the 

 Sea :" on the top of this double rock are two eagles with a 

 bannerol, and an infcription in honour of Columbus, in 

 4to. ; " The two jolly Mariners," a well executed plate, 

 in 4to. ; four landfcapes, lengthways, in fmall 4to. ; " The 

 Grand Thefe,'' two emblematic plates in folio, dedicated to 

 the duke of Lorraine ; " A Vine Arbour," a fmall 410. 

 plate, the fubjcCl of which is a fete before the door of a 

 country public houfe, with an infcription on the margin, 

 fignifying that this is the lajl plate engraven by the late 

 Jacques Callot, to which the aquafortis was not applied till 

 after his deceafe ; from which it may be prefumed that 

 the death of our artift was fomewhat fuddcn. 



The following Portraits are alfo from the graver or etching 

 needle of this dillinguiflied engraver. Cofmo III. grand 

 duke of Tufcany, in an ornamented oval. Fian^ois, grand 

 duke of Tufcany, ditto, in 4to., very rare. Charles III. 

 duke of Lorraine, in 4to. rare. Louis de Lorraine, prince 

 of Phalfbourg, onhorfeback, 4to. Le Marquis de Marig- 

 nan, a general in the fervice of the emperor Charles V. 410. 

 Donatus Antellenfis, fenator, commonly known by the name 

 of " The Senator," in an oval, 410. rare. Charles de 

 Lorme, firll phylician to Louis XIII., in an ornamented 

 oval, 4to. Giovanni Domenica Peri d'Archidoffa, in an 

 ornamented border, commonly known by the name of " Tlie 

 Gardener," in 410. 



The reader may perhaps be pleafed to be informed that a 

 fmall portrait of Callot himfelf has been drawn and en- 

 graved by Michael Lafne. It has the following infcription, 

 " Jacobus Callottus Nobilis Lotharingus Calcographus.'' 



The engravings of Delia Bella are little lei's numerous 

 than thofe of Callot ; though the largcll of Callot's exceed 

 the dimenfions of any of thofe of his fuccL-ffor. Their merits 

 were in many refpeCls very fimilar. If with the elegant 

 lightnefs of form and exquilite tafte of Delia Bella, we feem 

 more in the fairy land of engraving, Callot pofTefied more 

 perfpicuity, more firmnefs of outhne, and greater powers 

 of corapofition ; yet they are twin brothers m point of ex- 

 cellence, and, to the prefent hour, unrivalled in their de- 

 partment of art, though it mull: be aibued that Monf. 

 Berthaud, the Parifian, has of late years made fome very 

 near approximations toward the merits of Callot and Delia 

 Bella. We are enabled to add the following lift cf feleft 

 prints by the latter, to the fcanty lift of Struit, which the 

 reader will hnd affixed to our biography of Delia Bella : — 

 A portrait of Delia Bells drefled in the Perfian habit, 

 drawn and engraved by himfelf. Other portraits of Sigif- 

 mund Boldrini, a noble Milanefe. Mouit-Joy St. Denis, 

 king at arms, with a grand funeral proctifion in the back 

 ground ; a very rare print, in 8vo. Horace Gonzales, in 

 an oval ; likewife very rare. Ferdinand II. emperor of the 

 Romans, in folio. Bernardo Ricci on horfeback, furnamcd 

 II T^defchino ; Ferdinand II.'s jcfter, in folio. St. An- 

 tonin, archbiftop of Florence, kneeling on the clouds, 

 Delia Bella's earlieft engraving. 



Jiijlor'ical SuhjiCis, isfc. — "■ St. Anthony, mounted on a 

 Monlter with two Heads, a Man's and a Woman's," in- 

 fcribcd " Super afpidcm et bafdicum ambulatis ;" a fmall 

 upright plate of " The Departure of Jacob with Rachael 

 and her Tick ;" " Jacob's Journey to Egypt in queft 

 of Jofeph," in 4(0. ; " 'Hjc Battle of the .^mnlekites," of 

 the fame fize ; a fmall upright plate of " St. John, leaning 

 his right Hand on a Lamb ;" a fmall upright print of 

 " The Virgin fitting with the Infant Jefus ;" another 

 •' Virgin and Child ;" another. o£. " Ttie Virgiii fuckling 



the Infant," on a white ground ; " A Repofo," in a circle j 

 another " Repofo," where, in the background, S/t. Jofeph 

 is leaning againft a tree, reading, in 410. ; " A Flight into 

 Egypt," furmounted by cherubs heads ; another fmall up- 

 right print of the fame fubjecl, reprefenting " The Holy 

 Virgin, with the Infant in her Arms, fitting on an Afs, 

 led by St. .Tofeph ;" another " Holy Virgin fuckling the 

 Infant Chrift, ' infcribed Caracci inv. in a circle; "The 

 youthful Saviour explaining the Sacred Writings to his 

 Mother and St. Jofeph:" in the clouds is God and the 

 Holy Spirit, a very rare little print, firft etched, and after- 

 wards finifned with the graver ; a very rare print, entitled 

 " Effigie del gloriofo Martyre Sto. Benedetto ;" the dif- 

 covery of the miraculous image of " Notre-Dame del Im- 

 prunetta," n -ar Florence ; " The Church Triumphant," 

 an allegorical figure, clothed in a prieft's garment of white 

 linen, and crowned with a tiara, with one foot on the earth 

 and the other on the fea ; a' fmall folio print of " St. Prof- 

 per defcending from Heaven ;" a nearly fquare print of 

 the tyrant Piialaris, enclofing Perillus in the brazen bull, 

 from Polidoro ; an antique bas-relief of a female with her 

 face covered, from tlie fame mafter ; a fmall (landing figure 

 of Lucretia, from Parmegiano ; a fmall plate, nearly fquare, 

 of three children holding above their heads a wooden difli, 

 on which arc three verfes, from Guido ; an antique bas- 

 relief of a female, ftanding, trying to flop a ball ; a folio 

 print in a fquare ornamented border, of a foldier on horfe- 

 back. galloping away with a female, called " Clovis and 

 Clotilda," very rare ; a failor, of whom a beggar is afking 

 charity ; a young failor, fitting on a hillock ha^f covered 

 with his cloak, laying his hand on a dog's head, with other 

 figures ; a fmall print of four Turks, half length ; another 

 of three, with a negro and a boy ; the huutrefs holding a 

 dog, a fingular engraving, marked twice with S. D. Bella ; 

 an eagle, with extended v/ings, devouring a lien ; above, in 

 a circle,' are two horfes efcaping, and a multitude of fpec- 

 tators, in fmall folio ; " The Philofopher's Stone," in large 

 4to. a very fine and large print ; " The Fan," or a fete on the 

 Arno, an oval print, which was long attributed to Calloit; 

 a perfpeclive view of the catafalque of the emperor Fer- 

 dinand, and of the interior decoration of the church, with 

 the arms of the family of Mcdicis, in folio ; a grand Thefes 

 fupported at the canonization of Francis Solanus Condelier, 

 at Rome, a rare print, in large folio ; a plan of the fiege 

 of Rocheile, figned Stefano Delia Bella del. et fecit ; a large 

 upright print of the plan cf the fiege of Arras, done for 

 cardinal Richelieu, figned as before ; the Repofoir, or feaft 

 of God, a large print, lengthu ays, of which it is very diffi- 

 cult to find a good imprenion ; a view of ti.e Pont-Neuf at 

 Paris, a large print lengthway.-; : the firft impreffions of this 

 plate were taken before the weathercock was added to the 

 lleeple of St. Germain I'Auxerrois; a folio print of the 

 Calile of St. Angelo ; on the foreground are groups of 



T'jf fof/oivinj are In S.-ts. — Two landfcapes ; two other 

 landfcapes in the tafte of Silvcftre ; fix different views of 

 the Pont of Livourne, in large folio ; the four feafons, 

 reprefented in ovals ; the four elements ; eight marine fub- 

 jedfs, in the ftyle of Callot, entiried " Divers Enibarqiie- 

 nients, faits par S. D. Bella," dedicated to Lorenzo de 

 Medicis ; fix prints of vafes, in 410. in a rich and ex- 

 quifilc talle, and very finely executed ; fix landfcapes, in 

 circles ; four very fine landfcapes, with figures, in folio ; four 

 views in Rome, namely, the temple of Antoiinus Pius, 

 the arch of Conftantine, the temple of Coixo-d, and the 

 celebrat''d vafe in the gardens of the Medicean palace, in 

 which Delia Bella has introduced his own portrait ; three 

 8. grand 



