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FEMALE ENGRAVEKS. 265
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sequently the Academy of Ricovrate at Padua honored lier with , the name Erato , and gave her a place in their society . Madame le
Hay had a brother an artist , Louis Cheron , whom she sent to Italy to study , where he remained for eighteen years supported by her
bounty . Of her engravings we have—1 . The Cabinet of Antiquities in forty-one pieces , from her own design , and of which she engraved five herself , her niece , Ursula de
la Croix , and other artists completing them . The five she engraved are No . 6 , Narcissus in love with himself ; No . 10 , Bacchus and
Ariadne ; No . 16 , Mars and Venus ; No . 26 , Cyrus ; No . — , Night scattering poppies .
2 . A Descent from the Cross ; from a medal in wax by the Abbe Zumbo . Very masterly .
3 . St . Romnald ; after A . Caracci . 4 . St . Cecilia ; after Raphael . 5 . Her own portrait ; from her own design , with four Latin
verses below . Madame le Hay died at Paris on the 3 rd September , 1711 , aged seventy-three .
Ursula and A . nne de la Croix . Two sisters , nieces of M . le Hay , were pupils of Elizabeth Cheron , their uncle ' s wife , and engraved
with , and for her several of the antique gems etched by her own hand , in a free and spirited style . They nourished about 1700 .
About this time , 1650 , _ylnna Maria Vajani nourished at Rome , and executed many of the plates for the Justinian Gallery , which
was published in two large folio volumes ; and in France , Elizabeth Clara Tardien ( nee Tournay , ) the wife of Nicholas Heur
_Tar-, dien , was also working with her graver in 16 74 , and produced— --1 . The Concert ; after J . F . de Troy .
2 . The Mustard Merchant ; after Charles Hutin . 3 . The Charitable Lady ; after P . Dumesnil _,
4 . The Catechist ; , ditto . 5 . The Old Coquette ; ditto ,
6 . | The Repose ; after Jeaurat . While at Nuremberg , Susannah Mary de Sandart , born at that city in 1658 , was pursuing this profession under the superintendence
of her father , Jacob de Sandart . She executed a considerable number of plates for the publications of her great-uncle , Joachim de
Sandart , and copied the Aldobrandine Marriage , from a design by Barloti .
Magdalen Masson _, born at Paris in or about 1660 , was also a pupil of her father ' sAntony Masson . She engraved several fine
, portraits and heads as large as life . Among others , we have by
her—1 . Elizabeth Charlotte , Duchess d' Orleans . 2 . Elizabeth of Orleans , Duchess of _Alengon ; after Pillingard .
3 . Maria Theresa of Austria , Queen of France ; after Hubert . 4 . Elizabeth Maria Josephine , Infanta of Spain .
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Female Engraveks. 265
FEMALE ENGRAVEKS . 265
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 265, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/49/
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