Note 146 — THE BEST PORTRAITS IN ENGRAVING.
Reading edition
La Calcografia propriamente detta, ossia L’Arte d’incidere in Rame coll’ Acqua-forte, col Bulino e colla Punta: Ragionamenti letti nelle adunanze dell’ I. R. Istituto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte del Regno Lombardo-Veneto. Da Giuseppe Longhi. Vol. I. Concernénte la Teorica dell’ Arte. Milano, 1830.—The death of the author the following year prevented the completion of his work; but in 1837 a supplementary volume on the Practice of the Art, by Carl Barth, appeared in connection with a translation by him of Longhi’s volume, under the title, Die Kupferstecherei oder die Kunst in Kupfer zu stechen und zu ätzen. (No translation has been made into French or English.) This rare volume is in the Congressional Library, among the books which belonged originally to Hon. George P. Marsh, our excellent and most scholarly Minister in Italy. I asked for it in vain at the Paris Cabinet of Engravings, and also at the Imperial Library.