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burg ; 1712-75) ; and in England, Sir Robert Strange (London, Paris, 

 Italy; 1721-92), and William Sharp (London; 1749-1824), while 

 another Englishman, William Woollett (London; 1735-85), kept almost 

 exclusively to landscape. 



The chief Italian representatives of the classic revival were Giovanni 

 Volpato (Bassano, Venice, Eome ; 1733-1803) and Raphael Morghen 

 (Florence, Eome, Paris ; 1758-1833), but their dull and lifeless system 

 of engravmg heralded the decline of the art. 



The engravers of similar large line-engravings during the earlier part 

 of the XlXth century were legion, but except for the more original 

 development of the French school initiated by L. P. Henriquel-Dupont 

 (1797-1892), and carried further by such engravers as Claude Ferdinand 

 Gaillard (1834-87), there is little that invites our attention. The late 

 Pieter Dupont (Amsterdam, Paris ; 1870-1911) was a somewhat isolated 

 figure in his attempt to recur to 'the methods of the earlier masters of 

 original line-engraving. 



