Volume 2

A biographical dictionary, containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works. With the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained. To which is prefixed an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood. With several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists / By Joseph Strutt.

Joseph Strutt

Date:: 1785-1786

Credit: A biographical dictionary, containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time, and a short list of their most esteemed works. With the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained. To which is prefixed an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood. With several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists / By Joseph Strutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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LAS LAS [ 83 ] entirely ■with the graver, v/hich he handled 'with much facility ; and affefted a bold open ftyle, greatly refembling that of yillamenaj but a drynefs and want of tafte are frequently to be difcovered in his works ; and his outlines of tire naked parts of the human figure, the extremities efpecially, are often incorrea and heavy. When he did not fign his name at length, he lub- ftituted a monogram, compofed of an M. and an L. joined together, m the manner expreffed upon the plate at the end of the volume. The following prints may be reckoned among his moft efteemed performances. _ ‘The vifitation of the Virgin, a middling-fized upright plate; from Lodovico Cl The Silence, fo called becaufe it reprefents the infant, Chrift^ fleeeping, and the Viro-in holding up her finger to St. John, who is approaching the infant, from Annibale Carracci, a middling-fized plate, length-ways. This has been engraved by feveral other mailers, and lately by Mr. Bartolozzi. J ho% family, from Rubens, a fmall upright plate. A dead Chrift, extended upon a flone, and Mary Magdalen feated by him-, a large plate, length-ways, faid to be engraved from a defign of his own ; it is dedicated to Louis XIII. r ^ • u. i Cbrifl in glory, with St. Peter and St. Paul, a middling-fized upright plate, from Paolo Veronefe. , r,- ■ -a/r St. Francis d'Affife receiving the infant Chrift_ from the Virgin Mary, a middling-fized upright plate from Rubens. This is executed in a very neat ftyle, and much unlike the ufual engravings of this artift. The fame fubjeSf, in which Francis de Paul is introduced initead or the former St. Francis, and otherwife differently treated, from the fame painter. A confiderable number of portraits of all fizes, many of which are greatly efteemed ; among others, that of Louis XIII. on horfeback, the back-ground of which was engraved by Callot. ' Me alfo engraved a great variety of other fubjetts from his own com- pofitions, andliom Titian, Paolo Veronefe, Spagnoletto, Caftiglione, Cham- pagne, Vouet, La Hire, Mignard, and other mailers. k o ^ NICOLAS LASSAEUS. Flourifhed, By this ingenious artift, according to profeftbr Chrift, we have feycral engravings Oxu copper 3 among others, the portrait of Boiffard, exceedingly wetl executed. His prints are ufually ftgned with the initials of the names only, asN. L. or N. L. F. NICOLAS L A S ;rv.M A N, Flourifhed, 1620. Fie was the fon of Peter Laffman, a painter of Haerlem, and flourifhed foon after the commencement of the feventeenth century. Hi^s engravings are ufually very neat; but they want both tafte and correanefs ot outline. We have by him, . . ' . t i r l- Chrift praying in the garden^ a middling-fized upright plate, from his father, Peter Laftman.

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