FRENCH SCHOOL 
Silv eftre. *. Views id the kingdom of capes oT 
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the feveral-fpots by Ifrael Silveftre,”” with explanations in 
French, ode pieces 4to. In = 1 of frieze fet 0. 
four ges . hag jaa of 
, Rom and nea 
h 
this beautiful feries, were engraven 
Views of the oe ‘edifices in Rome, and other a o 
Italy, four of which ar of Venice, twelve pie A 
beautiful fet. ‘Another fet, with defcr riptons in n AFrench, 
ef Venetian topography, on twelve plates in 4to. Views 
the caftle and other buildings. of PoeibieaL by Hrael 
twelve pieces ‘In 
explanations, pie pieces, eee pigs to which is en- 
by Claude Gayrand, , is fet includes, 
a view noe oe church of St. Sophia 
ae folio fet of eighteen views 
and other Italian area 
ta. 
dic 
eae of St. Peter, St. Paul, St. 
Ma rie Maguere, St. Sebaftian, St. Lawren e, St. é del 
olo, the Annonciade, and St. Paul of ihe ee fontaine, 
inand French explanations. fa aie aphy of Nancy 
‘ive of that city, ‘twelve 
of which views are en- 
as well as of other celebrated places in the environs o of 
by. nr Silveftre, with aa in ae ch, ten pieces in 
foli _colleétion of views of chateau 
on ie aun {Pots by Ifrael Silva, “with defcriptions, 
Another collection “of views, on ten 
n of 
"Perfo ective view 
of th ° me, with an oe ee of the adore a 
edifices and fites dependent on it, very large,,and e 
fou w ] - = a part of the caer in oa. 
{peQive, -and a fide rch.of St. Peter. Sil- 
Beneath 
yeftre fecit, ecu Panifiis, 2 a large folio plate. 
the zodiac, with this- infcription : 
OF ENGRAVING. 
te are twenty verfes by Scudery. Another erfpective’ 
of Rome, with its edifices and ruins, a large Sito t in the 
ee of a frieze. Perfpectiv e vie hss ene taken from the 
so with: inferi oa tio 
del. Is, Silveftre eae: ane friezes. An excellent large, 
and very rare print, a view of the Colifeum = Rome, dated 
1653.  Perfpective views of Stenay, Sedan, Montmedi, 
Verdun, and nae a ea i tive lar ge red ess “ The 
r 
the execution of which Silveftre was a 
veau. “'The Pleatures of the enchanted Ifland,’’ dated 
1 1664, eng graved on nine folio plates which were accom- 
ed by a “vignette, and publifhed at Paris. 
born at Paris se oe 
nder Seb. fe) 
yarious etchings, fome of which were om 
mafter and other ag s, and the reft al his own defigns. 
i v of his beft pieces, oe of which are 
of his own 
Thich 
1639, or there- 
n aes exe 
our on olio, 
al 
he 
and, during his ftay in that metr ee: 
pieces both from his own defigns, ae ae tho 
matters. On his return to France, he aoaed for the 
aa colleGtion of Beaulieu, fever al views of the cities 
. conquered during the reign of Louis XI 
The following are from his own compofitions, a fet of 
twelve landfcapes, in flo. rio eries of pieces entitled, « The 
« The Bui ae Rome under 
i xtus uiptus. 77 «A Plano 
Fro a pee of 
Flight a Attila,” after the celebrated na a of 
the Vatican. anonization of t setts seg St. Gae- 
tan, St. Francis Bosc St. 0, St. - trand, 
and St. Rofe,’’ after J. 10. “A View 
of Florence,’” Avawa by Della Bella, in folio, ** Plan of the - 
Chateau de Moyen,” formerly called Quinguengrogne, 
— oe nineteen prints in 
Ea 
i 
<i 
m ere was hea at Marfeilles i in the year 
1622. ted Rome about the middle of the 17th 
century, and a his ftay in that city publithed a great 
number of prints engraven in a ftyle, having fome refem- 
blance to a — a Fis lla. He a ee aos 
works wit e following m Dom 
pe ‘Maile, or with his cypher, w ctich ‘will be rae 
nograms of the French fchool, Amon 
others de piece pieces are from the hand of this ae 
r Malta, : 
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Portrait of John de la Valette, grand Matter. 
in Soul marke olio, This is a very fearce 
A fet of fix la are capes, Roffi ex cudit, in folio. 
‘ fet of 12 landfeapes, dedicated to Lelio Orfini, and dated 
1651, in folio. s of feven views of the villa‘o do- - 
brandini, engraved in wae and infcribed Dotninieus ras , 
riere Maffilienfis, in folio. andfcape, in which is 
“ Vim profert ubi: me 
mam, 
