FRENCH SCHOOL OF ENGRAVING. 
er '* after Vandermeulen. Four landfcapes: adorned 
with a grottoes, and huts, after Boucher. Four views 
rawn from nature, by Boucher. “Two landfcapes, “‘ View 
of the Bridge of i a andes in the /Eos Paien;’’ “ View 
of the Devil’s Tower, near Blois.”’ T'wo land{capes, “ The 
Watering-plice for Birds,’ and «* The Dove-houfe,”” after 
~T'wo landfeapes, “ The Fither,’’ and “ The 
Rune See after the — «¢ The ‘Anchorite,” a 
ee Hermits = a Defert,” 
after Pierre. A L 
in’ the fore-ground two cows an: ia cine 
after the fame. « andfcape, i i middle a Church, 
and in the fore-ground ree Cattle,’ after the fame. “ A 
a 
marine Piece, in the middle are ie rultic Houfes, on the. 
for é-ground a Man watering his Horfe, and fome Mariners in 
ort,’ after the fame. ‘Pwo architectural fubiects, with 
aaa after Bibiena, Four land{capes, a eniers 5 
orning Labour " “The Hour of Dinner ;”’ «* The 
ternoon ;”? * The good Night.” ni 
rora,”’ a beautiful landfcape se Teni 
Quarters, adorned with a number of Figures,” after Ro- 
bert Van Hoek. «“ Sale of Tith at Seiceiiohes after 
Jean Bre 
ean Ji ae Balechou was born a Arles in the year 
1715, and died at Avignon in 1764. “ ‘This extraordinary 
artift. worked entirely with the graver, and was perfectly 
matter of that inftriment. The clearnedfs of his ftrokes, and 
the depth of colour gina he wae are far beyond any 
— e did not draw well :”” 
and on account 
but then here is 
are aaa 
when ag pita tel i mpe: 
Watelet criticnfes our engraver fomewhat feverely for the 
farreytitious briiliancy of execution which he has been too 
felicitous to difplay, and which in his * Calm,”’ after Ver- 
nét, and *¢ $+. Gene vieve,”” after Carlo Vanloo, are certainly 
mifapplied. nod i me er oi his engravings are, how- 
ever, highly valued by col 
The moit numerous par t of the engravings of cope gee 
are his portraits: his hiftorical works, which are of the 
ie Ni ace but few in number, and are pone aly as 
“ « Birth, ?? and «€ Infancy,” ’ a pair, after Dandie Bardon. 
Three plates, of which the titles are ey ae to us, after 
Etienne Jeaurat, «¢ St. Genevieve,”’ after Carlo Vanloo, a 
pe upright. ‘ The Tempeit,” ae Jofeph Vernet. 
«The Ca ain after the fame. ‘i hefe are all in folio, and 
the tvo laft very large. 
beft ial are ae of Anne Charlotte sail 
of the Lies ene: Jacques Gabriel 
Gri es” Henri Frifo, prince of 
Orang nilippe, infant of Spain, after Vialy. 
hi 
Charles Porree, a Jefuit, after Neibfon. Jéan Juidlichne, a 
Charl 
en reau. 
ee 
oo — holding the portrait of Watteau, — 
de T wife of the preceding, from the 
Charles Rollin rector of the after Bal 
Charles np ee at the age oe neni aie oo os 
¢ megs 
“Jaques Alame was bornat Abbevillé A. D. ~, and 
died at Paris in 1788. He firft brought himielf i notice 
by engraving {mall eeu prints for beoke, ufually 
termed vignettes ; and his reputation was afte - 
creafed by the beautiful prints which he executed after 
Vernet. He aifo rought to perfeétion ag Snags of work 
ing with the dry point, which he learned t 
3as, and ha uy united it with cee and the werk- 
s ityle is at gue foft, and his touches 
} 
actors, who, overitepping the modeity of nature, 
make the theatre refound with their abfurd clayour and 
oo in order to gain the applavfe of the multi- 
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a 
The greater number of the prints of Aliamet confi of 
landfcapes and fea-pieces, with fome few of a different 
in 
The lift of his beft works follow : : being all of the folio 
lafs. 
A landfcape with various figures of men and animals. 
AS pair, very one and large, of “ The Ancient ees 
Genoa,’”’ and urchafe of a Slave.” ‘* Gra 
Slav nd § 
Hunt,” a ‘peautifal landfcape. ©’ The Brick Kiln,” « we 
rs. “ec 
Meeting of the Vilage The Rural Watering 
Place.” Village Pleafures,”’ all after Berghem 
A ae 
ved “ The 
and the ** Advanced Guard oF “Hulans.” 
aecean after A. Vanderneer. 
Spanith Halt,”’ 
“"Rifing of the. 
The companion to this print 
s the m ngraven by Zing. ‘ View o 
Boorh o on the Ru pel, ”’ after the “ Two Views of 
Pont del’ Arche, , after acker pair of Views 
f the “ Englith Garden of Villette,” after Jean Hackert, 
«© Winter Amufements,’’ after Ad. Va Velde. After 
Vernet he engraved feveral ; ree names of the chief are 
“© Stormy Weather.” « Fo y Weather.”’ Ita 
“ Conflagration of a Pert during the Night.”’ 
Two views of the Levant. Two views of Marfeilles. 
pair of fea pieces, Fihing with the ie and 
‘ The Return = Fifhing.”” And a fet the four 
part of the day: ‘* Morning,” “ Mid-d 
ig “ The Buith of Venus,” 
“ The Place Maubert,’’ after thefame. « 
Halles,’’ after the fain. Two of the fixtcen great Chinefe 
battles were engraven - by Aliamet, under the direction 
of Cochin. 
Of me and place of the birth of Jean ngs 
Wille, the oe writer is not precifely infor aes He wa 
a native of Germany, and eftablifhed himfelf at Paris as an 
eugraver of the higheft repute, aga the middle af the laft 
century, where, notwithftan nding the juitly acquired fame 
of Mellan, Maffon, Spierre, Neel Dr and other 
ornaments of the French {chool, he-fhewed that it was pofii- 
ble to tranfcénd them all with refpe& to beauty and preci- 
fion of manwal execution. Strutt fays of him, 7 “ he 
celled 
