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French Engravers in eighteenth-century London

A third study appeared in July 2024 with the title, "The Genius and Abilities of the greatest and most rival Nations". French Engravers in eighteenth-century London.

This examines the lives and careers of the French-native engravers who left Paris to work in London from the end of the seventeenth-century to the end of the eighteenth century.

It demonstrates how they interacted with the French-speaking community created by recently settled Huguenot artisans and contributed to the transformation and international recognition of a British school of copper-plate engraving in the second half of the century.

This monograph can be downloaded or read in eBook format:

'The Genius and Abilities of the greatest
and most rival Nations'. French Engravers in eighteenth-century London (
Venezia, 2024)

 

Link to Epublication       ePub.APP

Working chronologies of the prints, magazine and book illustrations, with the latter including the all plates in the relevant books to provide context to the works of the engravers discussed can be found on the right-hand side of this page.

Simon Gribelin (1661–1733)

 

Louis Du Guernier  (1677–1716) 

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Claude Dubosc ou Du Bosc (1682-after 1745)

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Bernard Baron (1695-1762)

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Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin (1698-1755)

 

Simon-François Ravenet (1706-1774)

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Pierre-Charles Canot (1710-1777)

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Edme-Laurent Truchy (c. 1720-1748)

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Antoine Benoist (1721-1770)

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Victor Marie Picot (1745-1802)

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Jean-Marie Delattre (1745-1743)​​​​

© 2025 by Richard Goddard

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