A catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England . am Bridge and William Salmon, both in 1670; thelateft, judge Powel in 1711. The regular Architect of the generalRule of the five Orders, by Vignola, with Additions by MichaelAngelo, done into Englifh by J. Leake, was printed for W. Sherwin,engraver, 1669. JOSEPH NUTTING Probably commenced engraver about the time of the reftoration, asnot long after he did a plate of Mary duchefs of Beaufort from apicture of Walker, and therefore it is likely that he was of fome emi-nence. A head of Matthew Mead, father of Dr. Mead the phyfi-c
A catalogue of engravers, who have been born or resided in England . am Bridge and William Salmon, both in 1670; thelateft, judge Powel in 1711. The regular Architect of the generalRule of the five Orders, by Vignola, with Additions by MichaelAngelo, done into Englifh by J. Leake, was printed for W. Sherwin,engraver, 1669. JOSEPH NUTTING Probably commenced engraver about the time of the reftoration, asnot long after he did a plate of Mary duchefs of Beaufort from apicture of Walker, and therefore it is likely that he was of fome emi-nence. A head of Matthew Mead, father of Dr. Mead the phyfi-cian, is the belt thing I have feen of him : his works are few; as firJohn Cheke, from an old picture; James Bonnel, Mr. Locke,George Parker almanac-maker, and three of the family of Rawlin-fon ; the lad, dated 1709. He alfo engraved a frontifpiece to Green-hills Art of Embalming, and a head of the author from a picture byMurray. We now come to one of the moft capital engravers that has appear-ed in this country. The number of thofe, whofe works deferve in- trinfic. ^?/iJ-e Mtruvtf. ^/i^e h*- ^.t5a*t*ie*~tnati ,fi~*tf/t. Catalogue of Engravers. 63 trinfic regard, abftracted from their fcarcity, or the curiofity of theperfons and objects reprefented, is very fmall, and foon family of Pafs were Angularly neat: Hollar ftill furpaffed them,and in branches to which their art never extended. Vorft and Vof-terman fhone in a higher ftyle. Lombart added roundnefs to delica-cy, and was even a great performer if compared with mofl of his fuc-ceffors, of whom Robert White feems to have declined the leaft„John Smith carried the new-difcovered art of mezzotinto to the great-eft perfection we have feen it attain. The laft John Faber in fomethings was, tho far inferior, a good workman. Kirkall, commonlya wretched labourer, had lingular merit in one branch that will bementioned. Mr. Strange, afhamed of the creeping and venal ftyle towhich the art was funk in Britain, has given u
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