ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING 



uCnff the grayer and dry-point, with great propriety, only as 

 occalional auxiliaries to his etching-needle. 



The works oF this artift compofe feven fets, confifting in 

 the whole of feventy-two plates, of which the fubjedls are 

 the rural occup-tions of Italian pcafantry, &c. One of thefe 

 fets is dedicated to cardinal Pozobonelli ; another to the 

 earl of Exeter, and the reft to different noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen who had befriended their author, who were moil of 

 them Englilhmen. Londonio fometimcs printed his plates 

 on blue paper, and heightened his lights with white chalk, 

 by which means he produced an agreeable effeft. 



A pifture by this artilt, of a Milancfe peafant at the en- 

 trance of a hut, with goats, is now in the colleftion of the 

 molt noble the marquis of Stafford, at Cleveland houfe. 

 His piftures are rare, and this is probably the only one in 

 England : it lias no very powerful chiarofcuro, but is 

 painted with exquifite feehng, and great dexterity of 

 pencil. 



Giofeffo Camerata vras born at Venice A. D. 1724. He 

 iludied engraving under John Cattini, and travelled to Vi- 

 enna in 17+2, where he learned miniature painting, v.hich he 

 ever after occafionally praclifed. In the year 17JI, he was 

 invited to Drefden, to engrave for the great work from the 

 Eleftoral gallery in that metropolis, but the war breaking out 

 he returned to Italy. When peace was proclaimed, he once 

 more travelled to Saxony with the eleftoral prince ; foon 

 after which he was elefted one of the profelTors to the Dref- 

 den academy. 



This laborious artift engraved a greit number of plates, 

 many of which were from his own defigns ; among them are 

 the portraits of Marco Fofcarini, procurator of St. Mark, 

 and doge of Venice ; Simon Cantarini, another procurator 

 of St.'NIark, both of folio fize ; Sebaftien Bombelli, in 

 quarto ; a whole length of Therefa Zamelli, a celebrated 

 dmcer, drcffed in the Turkifh ftyle ; and a large head of 

 Mademoifelle Abnrzi, in folio. 



For the Drefl'ii Galkry, Camerata engraved two parables 

 from the New Teftamcnt, after Feti ; " David with the Head 

 and Sword of Goliah," in folio ; " A Holy Family," after 

 Julius Csfar Procaccini ; " St. Roche relieving the People 

 affhfled with the Plague," after Camillio Procaccini ; " The 

 Charity of St. Roche," after Caracci ; " Tke AlFump- 

 tionof'theVir;;in," from the fame painter, all of large folio 

 fi.'.e ; " The Woman taken in Adultery," after Bilcaino, in 

 folio; "The Chaftity of Jofeph," from S. Cantarini, in 

 folio; and the Old 'and New Tedaments, after And. 

 VaccaiH, in large folio. Of his works of fubfeqnent date, 

 the following are to be preferred i— " A Holy Family," 

 after Procaccini, in folio ; " The Penitent Magdaien," 

 from a piftnre by P. Battoni, in the Drefden gallery, in 

 large folio ; " A fleeping Shepherd," from J. M. Crefpi ; 

 " St. George refufmg to facrifice to the Idol," from Count 

 Rotari, both in large folio. Two half length figures with 

 long beards, after Dietrich ; and a Magdalen, in miniature ; 

 from Vander Werff, of the fame fize as the original. TKis 

 was Canr.erata's laft engraving. 



Jofeph Canaie was born at Rome in the year 172S, and 

 became a profclfor of the academy at Drefden, and honorary 

 member of that of Bologna. He Iludied engraving under the 

 -direaion of that jultly celebrated mafter Giacomo Frey, and 

 alfo frequented the fchool of Cavalier Benefiali. At Dref- 

 den much of his time was taken up in making the drawings 

 from the pictures which were to be engraven both by him- 

 felf and others, for the publication of " The Diefden Gal- 



Canak had many pupils who did him honour j and his 



engravings are very numerous. Among themthe following 

 are fdme of thofe which are held in moil efteem. 



Portraits. — Maria-Mattia Perini, a half figure from Marco 

 Benefiali, in quarto ; Maria-Antowia Walburgis, eiefto- . 

 refs dowager of Saxony, from a painting by herfelf in 

 crayons; the archbifliop Bonaventura Barbetini; Maria 

 Jofephini, queen of Poland, after Rotari ; the profile of tlie 

 prince Xavier.. after Cafanova, all in folio ; and the fepul- 

 chral monument of caidiniil Spinola at Rome, in large folio. 



H'tjlorical Suljecls. — " Imagina miraculofa dclla S. Virgine 

 Maria tranfportata nella Bafilica Lateranenfe," in fmall 

 folio ; « The good Englifitman," after Signora Rofalba, 

 from the Crayon cabinet at Drefden, the fame fize ; " The 

 Philofopher," ■' after Efpagnolct; "Glory," after Dominiclu- 

 no; " A Sybil," after Angelica KaufFman ; " Paris on mount 

 Ida," after Vanloo ; " Adam and Eve dit'mifi'ed from Para- 

 dife," after Albanus ; " Chrift and St. John," after Vander 

 Wci-ff; " Chrill appearing to St. Thomas," after Mat.. 

 Preti, for the collection from the Drefden gallery. (This 

 plate was only etched by Camerata and finiftied by Jean 

 Bcauvarlet.) " A Turkifh Woman," hah length, from Die- 

 trich ; and " Spring," a half figure, from the fame mafter, 

 of which the laft three plates are of folio dimenficn=. 



Bartolomeo CrivcUari was born at Venice A. D. 1725'. 

 He became the difciplc of Wagner, and worked under his 

 direction, from the piclures of Gherardini, Tiarini, Tiepolo, 

 and others, and he likewife engraved fome plates for the Ir:- 

 ftitution at Bologna, but attained no very high degree of 

 eminence in his art. Among other engravings by this artift 

 are the following : Portraits of Chriftian, prince royal, and. 

 elector of Saxony; and Mary- Ann, archduchefs of Auftria, 

 both of folio fize. Three fubje£ts from the life of St Peter 

 of Petronius. Four from Nicolo del Abatte, in folio : i-l-z., 

 I. A Company of Card Players. 2 A Group of Drinkers* 

 diverting themfelves, both half figures. 3. A Company of 

 Muficiaiis. 4. Another Group of Mufieians, with a young 

 Female playing the Harpficord. " The Canonization of St. 

 Alexander Saul," after Matteo Bartoloni; " A young Man 

 and Female feated on a Couch," from Julio Romano, in fmall 

 folio, from the gallery of the king^of Prnffia. 



Gaetano Gandolfi was a native'of Bologna, and the con- 

 temporary and fellow ftudent of Crevellari. He engraved, 

 after Nicolo del Abatte, " The Nativity," with "The Ado- 

 ration of the Shepherds," infcribed " Opus hoc incifumque 

 expofuit," &c. from a picture in frel'co, at the palace 

 Leoni at Bologna, in large foho, which latter engraving 

 pofleffes fo much merit as to make us regret that he en- 

 graved fo little, and that we do not know more of this artiih 



Giovanni-Baptilla Broftoloni or Brulloloni, was born at 

 Venice in the year 1 726. He always rcfided in the place of 

 his birth, and was probably a pupil of Jofeph V.^agner. 

 V\'e are only able to fpecify the following engravings by him. 

 The portrait of pope Benoit XIV. in an oval, a vignette witli 

 the fame portrait; " St. Therefa in Rapture," in folio. A 

 fet of twenty views of Venice, etched after Ant. Canale, 

 in folio. Another curious fet of twelve large plates, from, 

 the fame mafter, reprefent the ceremonies made ufeof at th* 

 ekaion of the doge of Venice, and at his allegorical mar- 

 riage with the foa. 



Benigne Bofii was horn, according to Bafan, at Porto 

 d'Arcifato, in the Milanele territory, A. D. 1727. At the 

 age ot ten, his father took him to Nuremberg, where he 

 klirned the elements of defign ; and from thence, on the 

 death of his father, he travelled to Rome, and ftudied undcf 

 Pompeus Battoni, Hutiii, Dietrich, and Mengs. The 

 latter advifed him to pradtifc etching, which he did till his 

 death. The leven years' war, of which Saxony was almoll 

 e the 



