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27Q FEMALE ENGRAVERS,
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Profusel P Many Leasant Of Y Little Illu...
5 . A Youth , in Meditation . 6 . Bust of an Old Man with beard .
7 . Bust , of an Old Man reading . 8 . Bust of an Artist with crayon in hand .
9 . Two Philosophers with _, a book . 10 . Hope . _Half-length .
11 . A Young Female embracing an Urn . 12 . L'Allegro .
executed About 13 . II this Penseroso a very period charming .. also , ( etching 1764 , ) Miss of Jedidiah Hartley _Btixtpn , an Eng , lish ( the lad cele y - ,
brated mathematician . ) By her we have —• 1 . A Landscape .
2 3 . A Lad Beggar Jane . Cathcart From life 1763 . . An oval engraving , from . a
marble In profile , 1796 y by the Ann Ladies Collot Leonora . , and Diana J 3 eaucle _? _'c were
designfor ing _Dryclen and engraving , ' s Fables . . They A little executed later , Mrs together , Mary some Parkes illustrations engraved in 1806 Griffith
seven large cuts for , the Bowyer Bible ; and , ,, a Mrs . was one hundred working with and fift Mr y- . seven Heath fine for plates Shaw , ' very s Zoology many , of which which contains are by
that lady . *' mencement And here , of having the nineteenth brought these century biograp , we hies pause down , grieved to the com and - lish
astonished at the miserable manner in which Engwomen are represented not onlisi gnificant this list in of great numbers and talented but the women works . of We our are country there
y n , women pared with are the poor production and palt ry to , both be their but in continental aim the fact and unfortunatel subject competitors , when . is com This
need undeniable not , this as it oug is ht mortif not y so ing . We ; would venture to suggest y , that as this short account of the productions of foreign female engravers
( and for such remembered it must by indeed all interested be called , in ) should the advancement be seriously of examined fine art work in
among English women . Mr . Cole has done a good perin suading the art the of government engraving to for form which a class he for is the entitled instruction to our of sincerest women ,
th great anks proficiency ; but both that he and has , been his students attained will by w do omen well of othe remember r countries the
in this particular branch of art . M . S . ft . executed * Since several this article engravings went to for press the we fine have edition learned of _"Paul that some et Vi Eng inie lish " ladies
pubyg , produced lished ( London some fac and -simile Paris ) engravings in 1838 . of Mary exquisite Ann delicacy "Williams from , in tlie particular designs , tinted brilliant
than of Clint Francais also her furnished " for Jardin that du work Paria , and excellent . " there Eliza engravings are Thompson few for a landscapes this , nd Mary same work and more . Elizabeth many
27q Female Engravers,
_27 Q FEMALE ENGRAVERS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/54/
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