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260 FEMALE EKGEAYERS.
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Cole , Esq ., Secretary to tlie South Kensington Museum , for to liis minster pen and influence Review" ) we resulted are indebted in the for formation these notices of a in class the " for West the
instruction of ladies in this art by the Government School of Design , and of which an account has already appeared in a former number
of this Journal . Seventeen years having passed since the attention of English
women was especially directed to this branch of art , the question naturallariseswhat success has attended the movement ? Have
y , the the pup attendance ils increased is fair in but number the , numbers and their have work not inefficiency increased ? in "Well the ,
ratio that might have , been expected , and their work , though certainl of perfection y above mediocrit to be found y , is in yet the far masters behind of the the standard art . and measure
and The others great interested importance in of their drawing success the , to attention similar of works these of students ¦ women ,
in other countries , is our plea for introducing the following biograare phies well of some known of to the collectors more celebrate and prized d female for engravers their intrinsic , whose value works ,
resting well assured that when , , once the ambition and energy of English women have been aroused , they will be with able to the produce finest work gems
worthy to be compared and placed side by side s of their French and Italian sisters .
Cunio Repudiating the first as female mythological , of Papallion whom ' we s history have been of Isabella able to engraver
to discover have , been any authentic a native of account Rouen is and Isabella to have Quatrepomme flourished , about who is 1521 said , calendar executed bher
together in as a appears neat with st from yle historical , containing the frontisp sketches figures iece of b of eneath an the old seasons which is and a of representation the months y ,
, of Janus . Her monagram or rebus is singular enough , being an apple with a figure four upon it to 1521 express vis her vis name la ; her works lise d
were to be obtained , for the year , " -a-grand ey Rouen" an address as primitive as her signature . Broech born at AntwerpShe
a daug In 1560 hter , Barbara of Crispin Vanden Vanden Broeck was , and worked entirel . y with was her graverwhich she handled with great skill : in some of her plates ,
the particularl style of , y in Martin that of Rota the . Last Her Jud fi gment gures , are she well very drawn skilfull , y the imitated heads marked with
are expressive , and the other extremities great judgment 1 . . A Hol We y have Famil by y , her with — St . John and St several John angels . Dated and 1600 .
2 . Another Holy Family , with . kneeling angels attendant . 1621 . 3 Samson and Delilah ; after her father .
. 5 4 . . Mandoni The Last a Jud with gment her maidens ; , ditto prostr . ating herself before Scipio .
6 . Venus and Adonis .
260 Female Ekgeayers.
260 FEMALE _EKGEAYERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/44/
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