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Jean Duvet - - - 1

Jacob de Fornazori - 1

Pierre Firens - - - 1

Leonard Gaultier- - 1

Thomas de Leu - - 1

N. de Larmessin - - 2

Caspar Isaac - - - 1

Jacques Callot - - 20

Pierre Lombart 9

J. T. Bichomme - - 3

Antoine Masson - - ]

Matthieu Merian - - 1

Claude Mellan - - 1

Jean Morin - - - 1

FRENCH SCHOOL.

Jean Joseph Balechou - 1

Simon Gribelin - - - 8

Johann Georg Wille - 24

E. F. Lignon - - - - 6

F. Yivares - - - - 1

Robert Nanteuil - - - 5

Gerard Edelinck - - - 4

Pierre Drevet, sen. - 1

Pierre Drevet, jun. - - 1

Pierre Imbert Drevet - 4

Pierre Audouin - - - 1

Charles Clement Bervic 2Jean Jacques de Boissieu 4Jean Joseph Mougeot - 1

Pauquet - - - - 1

Aristide Louis 1

Achille Louis M artinet lAbraham Girardet - 6

J. F. Ribault 3

A. Lefevre - - - - 1

Jean Nicolas Laugier 1Caroline Lose 1

Constant L. Loriehon 2Jean Marie Le Roux - 3

Paolo Mercury - - 2

L. A. B. Desnoyers - 13Franqois Forster - - 5

Pierre Charles Canot 4

The great excellence to which the art of line engraving had arrived in France,especially in portraiture, is admirably represented by a numerous selection ofspecimens, faultless both in condition and impression, of which. the following aresome of the most remarkable:—

Louis XIII., when Dauphin, by Pierre Firens ; Henry IV., full length, slayingthe Hydra, by Leonard Gaultier ; Marie de Medicis, by Thomas de Leu ; LouiseFrangoise, Duchesse de la Valiere, in the habit of a nun, by Nicolas de Larmessinthe Elder; Guillaume de Brisacier (called the grey-headed man), by AntoineMasson; James, Duke of York, by Matthieu Merian; John Howell, by ClaudeMellan; Guido, Cardinal de Bentivoglio, by Jean Morin; Pompone de Bellievre,after Le Brun, and Jean Baptiste Colbert, by Robert Nanteuil; Philippe de Cham-pagne and John Dryden, by Gerard Edelinck; Jacques Benigne Bossuet, Evequede Meaux, after Rigaud, by Pierre Imbert Drevet; Adrienne Lecouvreur, in thecharacter of Cordelia, by Charles Coypel ; and Napoleon Bonaparte, by JeanFrancois Ribault.

Amongst the works of James Callot are, the Temptation of St. Anthony, andthe Fete Champetre. The engravings by Johann Georg Wille are mostly fineproofs, especially L’Instruction Paternelle, after Terburg, and L’ObservateurDistrait, after Francis Mieris. And there is a fine proof of the Storm, by JeanJoseph Balechou. The examples of a more recent date are of equally highquality, such as Christ with the Reed and the Crown of Thorns, by Etienne FredericLignon; St. John in the Wilderness, by Charles Clement Bervic; and, passingfrom Jean Nicolas Laugier, Caroline Lose, and others, beautiful proofs will befound of Achille Louis Martinet, Achille Desire, Le Fevre, Constant LouisLoriehon, Jean Marie Leroux, Louis Augustin Boucher Desnoyers, GerardEdelinck, Frangois Forster, and others, after the celebrated pictures of the greatItalian painters.

ENGLISH SCHOOL.

Reginald Elstracke.Thomas Cecill.Martin Droeshout.Robert White.

William Faithorne.John Smith.William Hogarth.Sir Robert Strange.

William Woollett.William Sharp.Francesco Bartolozzi.John Scott.

The English School is more comprehensive and complete than any otherportion of the collection, comprising specimens uniformly of great excellence.