Two were in their shirt sleeves, bending over an engraver's bench.

This was Charles Heath (1785-1848), son of James Heath, a great engraver of steel plates for the Annuals.

Noble was the engraver.

These invaluable Pieces are very justly in the Hands of the greatest and most pious Sovereign in the World; and cannot be the frequent Object of every one at their own Leisure: But as an Engraver is to the Painter what a Printer is to an Author, it is worthy Her Majesty's Name, that she has encouraged that Noble Artist, Monsieur Dorigny, to publish these Works of Raphael.

[Footnote 5: Michel Dorigny, painter and engraver, native of St. Quentin, pupil and son-in-law of Simon Vouet, whose style he adopted, was Professor in the Paris Academy of Painting, and died at the age of 48, in 1665.

The fine engraver who has executed so many of Leslie's works, Danforth, is a stanch American; he would be a man after your heart; he admires you for that very quality.

From an inspection of the manuscript map and views, we are persuaded that no analogous performances, of equal merit, have ever been submitted to the hands of the engraver in this country.

* Definition by an Envious Wood-Engraver. ZINCALIArtists who draw on zinc plates.

Bewick, the Engraver, 39173426.

* * BEWICK, THE ENGRAVER.

The Duke of Northumberland, when first he called to see Mr. Bewick's workshops at Newcastle, was not personally known to the engraver; yet he showed him his birds, blocks, and drawings, as he did to all, with the greatest liberality and cheerfulness; but on discovering the high rank of his visiter, exclaimed, "I beg pardon, my lord, I did not know your grace, and was unaware I had the honour of talking to so great a man.

These invaluable Pieces are very justly in the Hands of the greatest and most pious Sovereign in the World; and cannot be the frequent Object of every one at their own Leisure: But as an Engraver is to the Painter what a Printer is to an Author, it is worthy Her Majesty's Name, that she has encouraged that Noble Artist, Monsieur Dorigny, to publish these Works of Raphael.

[Footnote 5: Michel Dorigny, painter and engraver, native of St. Quentin, pupil and son-in-law of Simon Vouet, whose style he adopted, was Professor in the Paris Academy of Painting, and died at the age of 48, in 1665.

Several scattered lithographs, two or three engravings, two slabs of lithographer's stone on the table, and engraver's tools sufficiently showed the occupation of the young man.

" The engraver listened, and only shrugged his shoulders.

As soon as she was gone the engraver got to work.

The engraver, examining the writing of Princess Anna, compared it with his own work, and was astonished, so perfect was the resemblance.

There's where the shoe pinches," continued the engraver, remembering the second half of Natasha's commission.

And he warmly pressed the engraver's hand.

"Was he not once a lithographer or an engraver, or something of the sort?" "I think he was.

He is a fine engraver still.

On the walls, in ebony frames, hung the prints of Jan Luyken, an old Dutch engraver almost unknown in France.

EDELINCK, GERARD, a Flemish copper-plate engraver, born at Antwerp; invited to France by Colbert, and patronised by Louis XIV.; executed in a masterly manner many works from historical subjects (1640-1707).

As painter, as author, as engraver, or simple citizen, the more we know of him the more we are morally and intellectually satisfied.

Here or elsewhere, at any rate, he came under the influence of the Bellini, of Mantegna, and more particularly of Jacopo dei Barbarithe painter and engraver to whom he owed the incentive to study the proportions of the human bodya study which henceforth became the most absorbing interest of his life.