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Bartolozzi and his Works.
CHAPTER XL.
Approximate Estimate of the Quantity of
Bartolozzi's Work.
<T> aCD cfd TfDZ ^Z f'^ prints are so numerous as to defy exact
6Iid 1 O enumeration ; and to adequately record
only the best is a task beset with difficulties. As is explained with more
detail elsewhere, his work comprised line, etching, stipple, and a mixture or combina-
tion of the three methods, with the occasional addition of washed or aquatint grounds.
Long before the introduction of the stippled method, Bartolozzi had earned a great and
undying reputation as a line engraver, and all that can here be given is a slight indication
of his best or more prominent works in line.
Bartolozzi's powers are to be judged more accurately by his line* than his stippled
* Vide Chapter VIII., " Benefit Tickets."
engravings; for in the former he had little if any assistance, while in the latter we know
that a great many of the plates bearing his name were chiefly the work of his pupils and
assistants, and received from his hands their finishing touches only.
Of his earlier prints in line little need be said. The numerous large subjects, prin-
cipally ecclesiastical, after Amiconi, Giordano, Guarana, and Zuccarelli, executed while
under Wagner,* were at one time much prized ; they are, however, mostly hard and
* The imprints are usually thus worded :—F. Bartolozzi Sculp., J. Wagner recognovit et vend. Vena C. P.E.
formal, amongst the best being the set of " The Months," after Zocchi, in which much
greater freedom and breadth of treatment are observable. He also, during his early
career, engraved a considerable number of prints after Fontebasso, Zais, Piazzetta,
Pellegrini, Bellucci, Sebastian and Marco Ricci, Gibbiani, and Carlo Maratti. Barto-
lozzi's work in Rome, before his journey to England, comprised amongst numerous
other plates, a set of fine prints from the Life of St. Nilus, after the pictures in
38 the
CHAPTER XL.
Approximate Estimate of the Quantity of
Bartolozzi's Work.
<T> aCD cfd TfDZ ^Z f'^ prints are so numerous as to defy exact
6Iid 1 O enumeration ; and to adequately record
only the best is a task beset with difficulties. As is explained with more
detail elsewhere, his work comprised line, etching, stipple, and a mixture or combina-
tion of the three methods, with the occasional addition of washed or aquatint grounds.
Long before the introduction of the stippled method, Bartolozzi had earned a great and
undying reputation as a line engraver, and all that can here be given is a slight indication
of his best or more prominent works in line.
Bartolozzi's powers are to be judged more accurately by his line* than his stippled
* Vide Chapter VIII., " Benefit Tickets."
engravings; for in the former he had little if any assistance, while in the latter we know
that a great many of the plates bearing his name were chiefly the work of his pupils and
assistants, and received from his hands their finishing touches only.
Of his earlier prints in line little need be said. The numerous large subjects, prin-
cipally ecclesiastical, after Amiconi, Giordano, Guarana, and Zuccarelli, executed while
under Wagner,* were at one time much prized ; they are, however, mostly hard and
* The imprints are usually thus worded :—F. Bartolozzi Sculp., J. Wagner recognovit et vend. Vena C. P.E.
formal, amongst the best being the set of " The Months," after Zocchi, in which much
greater freedom and breadth of treatment are observable. He also, during his early
career, engraved a considerable number of prints after Fontebasso, Zais, Piazzetta,
Pellegrini, Bellucci, Sebastian and Marco Ricci, Gibbiani, and Carlo Maratti. Barto-
lozzi's work in Rome, before his journey to England, comprised amongst numerous
other plates, a set of fine prints from the Life of St. Nilus, after the pictures in
38 the