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262 PEMALE ENGRAVERS.
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Profusel P Many Leasant Of Y Little Illu...
traordinary woman , celebrated for lier many and varied attainments , particularl Chaldean y Arabic for her Ethiop proficiency icItalian in the French Hebrew , German Latin , Greek and , Eng Syriac lish ,
languages several of , , her was etchings also , no and mean , engravings painter , , and among engraver , the latter . , We the possess most laddied at
remarkable is a portrait of herself . This learned y Altona in 1678 , aged seventy Palermo -one . in 1610 the hter of
Teresa del JPoborn at , daugan artist of that name , , etched a few plates , of which the best known , is Susanna and the Elders , after Cacacci . talented and
The family of Stella produced three very justly sonnet celebrated nieces women of James ; viz ., Stella Antoinette , a French , Frances painter , and , who Claudine flourishe Bou d in
-, the in the Claudine reigns art of of Bousonnet engraving Louis XIII Stella and . and _^ the born XIV princi at . . Lyons les of in drawing 1634 , was by her instructed uncle .
French three The etchings sisters school , on in are this copper among department of the Claudine most She , celebrated p who was was invaluable the productions youngest to her of of uncle the the
. , whose fame she both shared and increased . His ideas , interpreted by this clever girl on copper , works achieved rank for in Stella an estimation immortality with of
fameand made some of his public the chefs , d ' ceuvres of Poussin himself . This was especially the case with his series of paintings illustrating the " Passion of Christ , "
many prevented of which her comp Clau leting dine en the graved series , but . her Some earl few y death women unfortunatel may have y stands unrivalled
for equalled force her of expression in delicacy of and mani power pulation . So , thoroug but she hly did she
understand the characteristics of Poussin ' s pictures , that many judges consider her to have surpassed John Pesne in her illustrations of of Claudine
that masterand declare that in . viewing the engravings , we behold the pictures of the painter Pastoral . Her chief engravings with are title
—1 . A set of seventeen plates of Subjects , a page 2 ; A after set J of . Stella fifty . lates of Sports and Rural Subjects .
3 . . The Marriage p of St . Catherine ; after J . Stella . 4 . Moses in the Bulrushes ; after N . Poussin . after Poussin
5 . St . Peter and St . John curing the lame man ; N . . 6 7 . . A Another Holy Famil Hol y Famil , with y Elizabeth , with many and children St . John bring ; ing ditto flowers . ; y
after N . Poussin . 8 . Moses striking the rock ; after Great N . Poussin . after Very fine Poussin .
9 . The Crucifixion , called the " Calvary ; " N . . Very 10 fine The . Denial of St . Peterafter J . Stella . ;
. This talented artist died at Paris in 1697 . Frances Bousonnet Stella was the second sister , whose name howthat she
ever is never separately affixed to any plate , for perceiving
262 Pemale Engravers.
262 _PEMALE ENGRAVERS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/46/
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