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whether to employ him to engrave the illustrations to the second edition
of Characteristics 39 Gribelin had set a trend, which was taken up by
Nicholas Dorigny, a french Catholic, who came to England specially to
make larger plates of the Cartoons in 1711.
Gribelin also produced 'Six of her Majesty's Pictures Drawn and
Engraved from the originals of Paulo Veronese, Jac. Tintoretto, Old Palma,
Jul. Romano, and Andr. Shiavone in the Royal Palace of Windsor and Kensington'
in 1712, and he used Aimibale Caracci's Deposition as a source for the
engraving of that subject on an altar dish made by Gribelin's fellow
Huguenot Isaac Liger in 1706 for William Booth, 2nd Earl of Warrington's
chapel at Dunham Massey, where the plate remains today'' Gribelin's
final contribution to reproductive engraving, was the series of prints
of Rubens' ceiling in the Banqueting House, Whitehall, which were
available in 1721 (Plate 25). When the panels were repositioned in 1951,
the arrangement was based on Gribelin's engravings, which were taken to
be the earliest and most authoritative rendering of the ceiling. However,
Gribelin lined up the longitudinal pictures on the same axis, as engravings,
unlike a ceiling, cannot be viewed from four different angles, and his
work only served to confuse the issue.
Walpole complained of Gribelin,'that none of his plates gave any
idea of the style of the masters they copied.Z43 Gribelin should be given
credit, however, for the initiative with which he undertook schemes that had
not been attempted before.
Chatelain and Vivares also contributed to the history of the
reproductive print, working after the Old Masters; Gaspar Poussin,
Rembrandt, laude, Patel, as well as their contemporaries John Wootton,
Zoffany, Genrge Smith, Gainsborough, J3seph Goupy and Dominic Serres.
The inscriptions on these prints throw interesting light on the
patronage of the period, and indicate which private collections
were available for the artist to study. It is significant that a
Viva.res print after Platel is dedicated to the Huguenot Jacob Bouverie,
Earl of Radnor, and that Peter Delm, the son of the Huguenot fishmonger,
who became Lord Mayor of London (whose monument in St. Margaret Patten.s
was executed by Michael Rysbrack in 1738), emerges as a substantial
collector of Old Masters.
The engraver often advertised and sold his stock from his own
workshop, but some engravers had their own print shop where they supplied
work by other engravers as well. Others kept print shtps, but are not
recorded as working engravers.