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prince of Bavaria, with hiflorical acceftbries, a celebrated 
work, and the fubject of a thefis. The emperor Joleph as 
king of the Romans, on horfeback, the fubject of another 
academical thefis, dated 1694; which Huber pronounces 
one of the fined prints exilting for natural grandeur: all 
thefe are in large folio. The portrait of Augultus II. 
Abbas Einfidlenfis, is a large upright folio, dated 1686. 
The belt hiltorical production of Bartholomew is a Ma¬ 
donna and Child, a beautiful engraving in large folio, af¬ 
ter Cafpar Sing. 
Kilian (Philippe), was a younger brother of Bartho¬ 
lomew, imitated.his ftyle, and confined his talents almoft 
entirely to portraits. He engraved, among many others, 
the portrait of his elder brother, whom he never equalled, 
though many of his works poflefs no fmall portion of merit. 
Kilian (Philippe Andrea), great nephew of Bartholo¬ 
mew, who was born at Augfburg A. D. 1714, and died in 
that city in the year 1759. Defcended from a family of 
artiils, he imbibed, in early life, what may perhaps be 
termed an hereditary tafte for fine art. He firft ftudied 
drawing and engraving under Frederic of Augfburg, and 
afterwards became the pupil of G. M. Priefler of Nurem¬ 
berg, where he diftinguifhecl himfelf by engraving fome 
plates for the Phyfica Sacra of Scheuchzer, and laid the 
foundation of his future fame. Some years after, whilft 
engaged in engraving from the Drefden gallery, the repu¬ 
tation of our art ill (food fo high, that Auguftus III. of 
Poland, emphatically called him “ the Magnet of Dref¬ 
den and, when any other engraver produced an inferior 
plate from the collection, was ufed to fay, in the way of 
delicate reproof, that it ought to be re-engraven by Ki¬ 
lian. But our^rtift, notwithftanding thefe honours, felt 
fo much r eft rain t whilft refiding at the court of Drefden, 
or fuch a pafnonate defire to return to his native city, that 
lie fought an occaiion to make fuch arrangements as en¬ 
abled lfffn to quit Bavaria, after the refidence of fome years. 
P. A. Kilian is uiually reckoned among the moft merito¬ 
rious hiltorical engravers of Germany. On a bafis of 
found drawing, he erefted rather a lingular ftyle of exe¬ 
cution ; he interworked his principal or firft courfe of 
lines with very delicate Itrokes, which he crofted with a 
courfe of lines exceedingly lozenge upon the firft, and 
fometimes added a third courfe fomewhat more fquare; 
at other times he interworked his lliadows with long flen- 
der peeks, as they are technically termed among engravers. 
But the characters of his heads are not equal to his gene¬ 
ral knowledge of the human figure. His belt hiltorical 
engravings are, Jefus Chrift at prayers in the Garden of 
Olives, an upright plate of the folio fize, from a defign of 
his own ; the Adoration of the Kings, after Paolo Vero- 
nefe; the Woman taken in Adultery, after Tintoret; and 
the Family of a noble Venetian, after Paolo Veronele; 
all large folio plates, executed for the Drefden gallery. 
Mary Magdalen walking the Feet of Chrift, from Ni¬ 
cholas Grafti; the Baptifm of St. Auguftin, from J. B. 
Pittoni; and Herodias with the Head of John the Bap- 
tift, from Carlo Dolce; are all of folio dimeniions. Regina 
Angelorum, where the Virgin appears furrounded by An¬ 
gels in Glory, after Bergmuller, and another from the life 
ot the Virgin, after C. T. Scheffler, are a large and highly 
efteemed pair of engravings. But perhaps his moft juftly- 
celebrated work is a very large plate of St. Cofmo and St. 
Damien, alter J. Wolfgang Baumgaertner. The beft por¬ 
traits from the graver of Philippe Andrea, are thole of 
Francis I. emperor of Germany, in a coat of armour, af¬ 
ter Meitens ; and Clemens Rezzonicus Venetus, Pontif. 
Max. after G. D. Porta ; a pair in large folio. Maria The- 
refa, queen of Auftria, an upright folio. Johan Martin 
Chriftell, from a picture by P. A. Kilian himfelf; Chrif- 
toph.Henry Andre Geret, after J. Romelli; Field-marftial 
Curtius Chriftophel Graff von Schideren, after Stranz ; 
Ferdinand duke of Brunfwick, general-in-chief of the 
allied army, after Ant. Pefne; and Godofredus Schnur- 
bein, 1750 : all of the folio dimenfions. 
Kilian (George Chriftopher), another engraver of the 
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fame family, was living at Augfburg when Ileinnekin 
publiftied his Idee generale d’une Collection complette 
d’Eltampes ; and perhaps may be living (till. 
KII/IOS, a town of Afiaric Turkey, in Natolia,on the 
coaft of the Red Sea: twenty miles weft-fouth-vveft of 
Amafieh. 
KI'LIS, a town of Syria: fix miles fouth-weft of Antab. 
KILKA'RE, a town of Hindoolfan, in Marawar : ten 
miles fouth-weft of Ramanadporum. 
KILKEN'NY, a county of Ireland, bounded on the 
north by Queen’s County, on the eaft by Carlow and Wex¬ 
ford, on the fouth by Waterford, and on the weft by Tip¬ 
perary; about thirty-five miles from north to fouth, and 
nineteen from eaft to weft. It contains 127 parifhes, about 
17,570 houfes, and upwards of 95,000 inhabitants. The 
furface is generally level, and the foil fertile in corn, equal 
to moft other parts of Ireland. The principal rivers are 
the Barrow, which bounds it on the eaft ; the Suir, which 
forms its fouthern boundary, and divides it from Water¬ 
ford ; and the Nore, which erodes it from north to fouth. 
This county returns two members to the imperial parlia¬ 
ment. 
KILKENNY, a city of Ireland, and capital of the 
county to which it gives name, fituated on the river Nore, 
over which are two handfome bridges. The borough of 
St. Canice, or Irifti Town, is joined to it; and both toge¬ 
ther form one large town, which fends one member to the 
imperial parliament. It is the fee of a bilhop, founded iti 
the fifth century. It is laid of Kilkenny, that its air is 
w ithout fog, its water without mud, its fire without ftnoke, 
and its llreets paved w ith marble. The two latter are in¬ 
deed matter of fa£t ; for they have in the neighbourhood, 
a kind of coal that burns from firft to laft without finoke, 
and pretty much refembles the Welfti coal. Moft of the 
ftreets alio are paved with a (tone called black marble, of 
which there are large quarries near the town: this ftone 
takes a fine polilh, and is beautifully intermixed with 
white granite. 
Irifh Town is more properly called the borough of St. 
Canice, vulgarly Kenny; the patronage of which is in 
the bilhop of Oflory. The cathedral, which Itands in a 
fequeftered lituation, is a venerable Gothic pile built about 
500 years ago; and dole to it is one of thofe remarkable 
round towers which have fo much engaged the attention 
of travellers. The bilhoo’s palace is a handfome building, 
and communicates by a covered paflage with the church. 
The caftle was firft built in 1x95, on the fite of one de- 
ftroyed by the Irifti in 1173. The fituation in a military 
view was moft eligible ; the ground was originally a co¬ 
noid, the elliptical fide abrupt and precipitous, with the 
river running rapidly at its bale ; here the natural rampart 
was faced with a w-all of lolid mafonry forty feet high ; 
the other parts were defended by baftions, curtains, tow¬ 
ers, and outworks ; and on the fummit the caftle was ereft- 
ed. This place, as it now (lands, was built by the ances¬ 
tors of the dukes of Ormond : here the Ormond family re¬ 
dded r and it is now in the pofieflion of Mr. Butler, a de- 
feendant of that illuftrious race. The college originally 
founded by the Ormond family is rebuilt in a ftyle of ele¬ 
gance and convenience. The tholfel and market-houfe 
are both good buildings ; and over the latter is a fuit of 
rooms, in which, during the winter and at race and afiife 
times, aflemblies are held. There are two very fine bridges 
of cut marble over the Nore; John’s bridge particularly 
is light and elegant. The Ormond family built and en¬ 
dowed a free-lchool in this city. Here are the ruins of 
three old nionafteries, called St. John’s, St. Francis’s, and 
the Black Abbey : belonging to the latterare the remains 
of feveral old monuments, almoft buried in the ruins; and 
the courts of the others are converted into barracks. The 
manufaftures chiefly carried on here are, coarfe woolien 
cloths, blankets of extraordinary fine quality, and conii- 
derable quantities of (larch. In the neighbourhood alfo 
are made very beautiful chimney-pieces of that fpecies of 
ftone already mentioned, called Kilkenny marble; 'they are 
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