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FEMALE ENGRAVERS. 267
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Profusel P Many Leasant Of Y Little Illu...
afterwards set up as printer for himself , when he became a bankrupt . In 1 740 lie went to Sweden and commenced draining" the fens and
, marshes of that country , under the patronage of the king , but some few years after he was suspected of being concerned in a plot with
Count Tessin , and was beheaded in 1748 . We have , unfortunately , not been able to discover whether his talented and affectionate wife
survived him . There is a very fine copy of her work in the British Museum , which formerly belonged to Sir Joseph Banks .
The French engravers of this date are numerous , Nicholas Ozanne , who was born at Paris in 1724 had two sistersJane Frances and
Mary Jane Ozanne _^ who followed , his steps as engravers , , being instructed in the art hy Aliamet . We have by them several prints of
sea-ports , very neatly executed , among which are—1 . A View of the Port of Dieppe ; after Hackert .
2 . A View of St . Vallery ; ditto . 3 _. Two Views of the Port of Leghorn ; affcer Vernet .
4 . A Calm ; ditto . 5 . Two Pastoral Subjects ; affcer P . Wowermans .
Catherine Elizabeth Lempereur _, ( nee Cousinet , ) born at Paris , 1726 , wife of Louis Lempereur , was instructed in engraving by L . Cars
and Fessard , and produced—1 . Two views of Architecture ; after Panini .
2 _. The Milkmaid ; after Teniers . 3 . The Dangerous Forest ; after "Wowermans .
4 . Rural Labors ; ditto ; 5 . The Departure of Jacob ; affcer Boucher .
6 . A set of six Marine Subjects and Sea-Ports ; after Vernet . Frances Magdelen Brasseportan ingenious French lady , who
flourished about 1729 , engrave _, d some plates for the Crozat collection . We have also by
her—1 . The Martyrdom of St . Fidelio de Sigmaringa ; after P , A . _Holbert .
2 . Diana and Endymion ; after Sebastian o Cortca . In 1730 , Margaret Louisa Amelia du Rouseray was born at Paris .
We have many neat and spirited etchings by her , after Bouchardon and other French painters . The following are her chief
productions : — 1 . Venus rising out of the sea ; affcer Bouchardon .
2 . The Fountain of Grenelle ; after ditto . In six plate ? , 3 . The head of St . Paul ; after the cartoon painted by Pierre .
4 . A view of the tower of Palmer ana ; after Cochin . 5 . A Sultan and Sultana ; after B . Picart .
Maria Catherine JPrestel , the wife of John Gotlieb Prestel , a German painter and engravernourished in 1739 . She aided her
, husband in some of hi _£ best prints , particularly in landscape . On account of some disagreement she separated from him and came to
England in 1786 , where she engraved some plates which have not been surpassed in the particular style in which they are executed .
VOL . Ill-, V 2
Female Engravers. 267
FEMALE ENGRAVERS . 267
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/51/
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