Ottley, William Young: An inquiry into the origin and early history of engraving: upon copper and in wood ; with an account of engravers and their works, from the invention of chalcography by Maso Finiguerra to the time of Marc Antonio Raimondi (Band 2) (London, 1816) [Cicognara, 266B]

AN INQUIRY

INTO

THE HISTORY OF ENGRAVING,

CHAPTER VII.

Ancient Engravers of the Venetian State, and other parts of the North
of Italy. Zanis account of an Engraving, conjectured to be by
Francesco Squarcione. Andrea Mantegna. Girolamo Mocetto.
Marcello Fogolino. Benedetto Montagna. Bramante. Nicoletto
da Modena. Altobello. Gio. Battista del Porto. Gio. Ma?ia and
Gio. Antonio da Brescia. Works of unknown Engravers, distin-
guished by Cyphers or Monograms.

IN the three foregoing chapters, I have endeavoured to trace
the progress of Chalcography in Florence, from its invention, by
Maso Finiguerra, until the commencement of the sixteenth century.
That the art of engraving on copper, or other metal, was practised
during this interval at Rome, also, is sufficiently proved by the nume-
rous plates in the edition of the " Geography of Ptolemy," printed there
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