ITALIAN SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 



•tlie cantiDual feat, obliged BofTi to return to Italy, and in 

 1 760 he was received at the court of the duke of Parma, 

 where he lived honorably, occupied with letters and the arts. 

 The following are among the heft of his works. A portrait 

 of the engraver Boetius of Drefden ; " The Frefentation 

 in the Temple," (pubhflied at Drefden) ; a fct of heads and 

 other fubjetts on forty fmall plates, etched with talle and 

 in a very fpirited ilyle ; a fct of vafes, and a mafqueradc, 

 after Petitot ; four fubictls of trophies.; the Attributes 

 of the Four Seafons, inclofed in circular wreaths ; two 

 fubjefts of children, in fmall folio ; a fct of twenty-nine 

 etched, and wafhed in with water colours to imitate the ori- 

 jrjnal drawings by Parmcgiano .; the cities of Piedmont ; 

 allegorical figures for an Epitlialamium ; and the celebrated 

 St. Catherine, who was related to the houfe of Sanritali, 

 engrav^'d the fize of the picture, and a very capital print, 



Antonio llaratti was born at rlorence in the year 1727. 

 He worked for the collection of prmts after the bell piftures 

 in the cab!u?t of the marquis Gcrini, of which Mariette has 

 given a defcription, and of which the iirft volume was pub- 

 lilhed in large folio, A. D. 1759, at Florence. He like- 

 wife engraved after various Italian mafttrs, and among others 

 the portrait of Jean Bettini Cignarolli, after Delia Rofa ; 

 of 4t<i. fize. 



Pietro Campana was born at Soria A. D. 1727. He 

 learned engraving of Tlocho Pozzi, and worked moll part 

 ■of his life at Home and Naples. We fmd feveral of his 

 engravings in the cabinets of Florence and Herculancum ; 

 among which the following are mdll worthy of dllinftion : 

 " St. Francis of P.iul," a half figure ; "Charity," in a 

 fmall oval ; " St. Peter delivered from Prifon by an Angel," 

 after Matt. Preti, from the Drefden gallery, in folio ; the 

 portrait of Pietro Berretini da Cornona, from the Florentine 

 -cabinet; and Bernardino Burbatelli, detto B. Poccetti 

 pittore FciTctti, both in folio. 



Carlo Orfolini was born A D. 1724, in the city of Ve- 

 nice, where he generally refided, and where he carried on a 

 confiderable commerce in prints. He engraved for the 

 Florentine Gallery, and among the befi: of his prints are 

 " St. Jerome meditating," infcribed " poll multas lacliry- 

 nias," &c. from Ant. Balellra, a much admired plate, in large 

 folio. Four others from legendary ilorics of the faints 

 Aloyfius, Staniflaua, Francis, and Bernard, and the High- 

 prieil, all of folio dimenfions. 



Bernardino Belotti, furnamed II Canaletto, was alfo born 

 at Venice in the year 1724, and died at Varfovic in 17S0. 

 He was called Canaletto from his very dillinguifhed uncle 

 Antonio Canaletti, by whom lie was inllrudcd, and whofe 

 flyle he fuccefsfully imitated. After vifiting Rome and 

 oilier cities of Italy, he travelled to Germany, where he 

 obtained the title of count Belotti, and made Ibme ilay at 

 the courts of Vienna and Drefden. 



The fubjccts of his prints, which confided for the moH 

 part of etching, are landfcapes, generally views, (or 

 portraits of celebrated places,) which he treated in a pic- 

 tnrefque talle, and which have been held in deferved elleein. 



The moll remarkable of thefc are, a fet of fix views of 

 Vienna, &c. in folio ; two other fets, each confilling of 

 fix architeftural ruins in quarto ; and a very large plate, enti- 

 tled " The generous Turk," the whole of which were ex- 

 ecuted during his ilay at Vienna. 



Thofe which he engraved at Drefden are larger and 

 more numerous. Among thefe we Ihall dilHnguilh views of 

 the port Wilfdrnffer Thor, with the ramparts, theatre, and 

 public library ; the gallery of Zwinger, with the bridge at tlie 

 entry of Ollra ; interior of the Zwinger, with the pavi- 

 lions and galleries ; the Catholic church with part of the 



eleftoral palace ; the bridge over the Elbe, with a profile 

 of the Cathohc church ; the gallery and garden.^ of count 

 Bruhl ; the church of the holy Virgin, &c. ; the pidure 

 gallery at the above church, &c. ; the fquare before the 

 grand guard-houfe ; the old market at tiie fide of the 

 church of St. Crofs ; the church and itrcct of St. Crofs ; 

 the ruins of the belfry of the church of St. Crofs, which 

 fell on the 22d of June 1763, at the bombardment of Dref- 

 den ; the ruins of a part of the fuburbs of that city, before 

 the port of Pima ; and two views of the new town and palace 

 of Holland, with the equeftrian llatue of Augullus II. 



Fie-zvs in the Neighbourhood of Drefden I'iie town of 



Piina, on the fide of the gate called Obertlior ; the fuburbs 

 of the town of Pirna, before the waterman's gate ; pirna be- 

 fore the gate of Dohn?. ; the fagade of the calUe of Son- 

 nenllein on the banks of the F.lbe, in the back-ground the 

 city of Pirna ; the ramparts of Sonnenilein, with the prifons, 

 &e. ; the fortrcfs of Sonnenilein, from the road to Kocnir-- 

 ftein ; the rock and fortrefs of Koenigllein on the fouth 

 fide ; the rock and fortrefs of the fame city on the wellern 

 fide, with the calUe of Lilienllein in view. 



Fieivs in IViufaw. — The abode of the Bernardin monks, 

 as it prcfents itfelf from the gate of Cracow ; VVarfaw, fro-n 

 the palace of Sapieha, to the end of Szolle, and from 

 thence to the cattle of Villanova, with part of the town of 

 Prague ; the city cf Warfaw, from the palace of the Ordi- 

 nate to tlie royal caftle. 



Dominico Cuiiego was born at Vorona in the year 1727. 

 He learned the principles of drawing and painting in the 

 fchool of Francefco Ferrari, but feeling a itrong dcfire to 

 become an engraver, he copied, without any previous in- 

 ftrudion, various prints by the moil celebrated engravers. 

 His earlieft engravings, (after thefe preparatory Itudies,) 

 were the medals for the book of the marquis Giacomo Mu- 

 feli Veionefe. 



He afterwards went to Rome with Mr. Adams, the 

 Englilh architect, where he engraved certain Roman anti- 

 quities, and, we believe, fome of the ruins of Dioclefian's 

 palace at Spalatro, after Clerilfeau ; bcfides many other 

 plates from celebrated Italian paintings ; and moll of the 

 prints for the Schola Italica of Gavin Hamilton. StruU 

 iuppofes that he vifited England, but this is perhaps a mif- 

 take into which he may have been led by the circumllance of 

 Cunego's having engraved for Boydell's colledlion, and f-jr 

 the Meflrs. Adams. When he was about lixty years of age, 

 he was invited to Berlin, to work perhaps as preceptor, in 

 an academy of engraving, elhibliflicd by an individual named 

 Pafcal ; where lie engraved a great number of portraits both 

 in the line manner, and in aquatinta, after Cuningham ; but 

 this ellablifhment not fucceediiig, he returned to Rome in 

 1789; in which metropolis, as is believed, he died witliia 

 thefe few years. In the following lilt will be four d men- 

 tioned all his works that are of any importance. 



P on ruits engraven afUr Cuningham. — Frederick II. king 

 of Pruffia, a whole-length figure, with the two favcuriie 

 leverets of the king, in aquatinta ; another portrait of king 

 Frederick ; two portraits of Frederick William, prince 

 royal of Pruffia ; Frcderica Charlotte, princefs of Pruflla, 

 reprefented walking in a garden ; and Frederick-Eouis- 

 Charlef, Frederick- William, and the princefs Fredcrica, 

 whole-length figures, all of large folio fize. 



Subjeds for the Schola Itnlici oj Hamdton.— " The Crea- 

 tion of the Waters," in fmad folio ; " The Creation of the 

 Sun and Moon," in large foiio ; and " The Creation of 

 Adam," in folio, all from Michael Angelo, in the Sillinc 

 Chapel; " Fornariiia, the Mifiiefs of Raphael," after a 

 picture by that mailer, at the palace Barberini, fmall :'\\o 



