A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . uately demonstrate his methods. Woollett had formed the essentials of his system by 1755, theyear in which were published his Vieufs of Oxford after JohnDonowell. It was not, however, until six years later that he pro-duced one of the large plates which have made his name, ie. theNwbe after Richard Wilson. Except for the two celebrated battleplates after West (the Death of Wolfe, 1776, and the Batik of La \ WOOLLETT—ENGLISH LANDSCAPE joy Hos^ue,
A short history of engraving [and] etching : for the use of collectors and students; with full bibliography, classified list and index of engravers . uately demonstrate his methods. Woollett had formed the essentials of his system by 1755, theyear in which were published his Vieufs of Oxford after JohnDonowell. It was not, however, until six years later that he pro-duced one of the large plates which have made his name, ie. theNwbe after Richard Wilson. Except for the two celebrated battleplates after West (the Death of Wolfe, 1776, and the Batik of La \ WOOLLETT—ENGLISH LANDSCAPE joy Hos^ue, I 781), most of Woolletts work consists of landscape after Claude and his English imitators, Wilson, George and John Smith of Chichester. Some of his plates were done in collaboration with F. Vivares. Francois Vivares, while his assistant, John Browne, and his Jo^n Browne. d 1*1 lliltllll l-jllIS. pupil, William Ellis, took part m others. Besides Francois Vivares, another engraver of French ex- j. B. , also some years senior to Woollett, J. B. C. Chatelain, done much to direct the English school of landscape along the. Fig. 79.—William Sharp. Thomas Howard, Earl of plate (part). classical lines, leaving many drawings and prints inspired by thestyle of Claude. Thomas Major and James Peake come nearer t. Major,to Woollett in the strength of the lineal system of their large land- J^^^s plates. With William Byrne and other engravers working largely after William Hearne (who had been an apprentice to Woollett), land-scape developed into something little better than topography, andneed not concern us until we approach the school of Turner. J. 208 LATER DEVELOPMENT OF ENGRAVING A leading role in line-engraving in Italy in the early part of theeighteenth century was taken by two foreign settlers, by JohannJacob Frey (b. 1681, Lucerne) at Rome, and by Joseph Wagner(b. 1706, Munich) in Venic
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