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FEMALE 'ENGRAVEES, 261
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Isabella _JRarasolethe wife of Leonardo Parasole , an Italian nourished , at Rome about 1570 . She executed several
cuts engraver for , a herbal published under the direction of Prince Cesi of _Aquasparta . She also published a book on the method of working
lace and embroidery , with ornamental cuts , which she engraved from her own designs . A few old lace books bearing this date , now to be
seen in the fine art court of the South Kensington Museum , show us how exquisitely graceful were the designs , and how elaborate the
execution formerly employed on such works . _JMagdalen de JPass or Passe _, the daughter of the elder Crispin de
Passewas born at Utrecht in 1576 , and learned the art of engraving from , her father , which she practised with great success . She
worked with the graver only , in a neat but labored style , in imitation of Count Gondt ; and her cutsthough inferior to those of that
, nobleman , possess considerable merit . The following are her principal works : —
1 . Her own head . Scarce . 2 . Catherine , Duchess of Buckingham , with a feather in her
hand . 3 . The Wise and Foolish Virgins ; after Elsheimer . Fine and
scarce . 4 . The Four Seasons ; after the designs of her father . Small
upright plates . 5 . Celphalus and Proeris .
6 . Salmacis and Hermaphoditus . 1620 . 7 . Latona changing the Lycian peasants into frogs .
8 . Alpheus and _Arethusa . 9 . Pair of Landscapes ; after Roland Savery .
10 . Landscape , with Windmill ; after A . Willeres . Fine . 11 . Storm and Shipwreck .
Magdalen de Passe is said to have been the first female engraver who practised the art in England . the
Diana _GMsisometimes called Mantnano _, -sister of George Ghisia native , of Mantuanourished about 1580 , and executed several , excellent printsIt , is supposed that she learned to draw
. and engrave from her brother , as she imitated his style closely and with great success . Amongst other plates of hers ,
are—1 . The Woman taken in Adultery ; affcer Guilo Romano . angel 2 . The introducing Virgin seated the young on the Tobit clouds ; from , with tlie St same . Michael . Very and bo an ld
and free . 3 . The birth of Adonis ; from ditto .
4 . The feast of the gods on the nuptials of Cupid and Psyche ; from ditto
. 5 . The meeting of the Virgin with Elizabeth ; from G . VasarL This last engraving is marked " Diana Mantonana Rome © , incidebat
1588 . " In 1607 Anna Maria Schurmans was born at Utrecht ; this
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Female 'Engravees, 261
FEMALE ' _ENGRAVEES _, 261
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/45/
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