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nyp.33433082115530	Solis, Virgil, 1514-1562.	Drinking-cups, vases, ewers and ornaments : designed for the use of gold and silversmiths. Twenty-one fac-similes of extremely rare etchings by Virgil Solis	1862		.txt	text/plain	399	104	93	Drinking-cups, vases, ewers and ornamentsVirgil Solis Drinking-Cups Vaſes Ewers and Ornaments deſigned for the Uſe of Gold VIRGIL SOLIS. VIRGIL SOLIS. AGA R VIRGIL SOLIS, a German engraver, born at 1/0 uſage of the time, he engraved both on wood MEHVOR and on copper, chiefly from his own deſigns. The copper-plates he engraved in the early part of his life reſemble the works of Hans Sebald Beham ; but when he afterwards engraved after the Italian Maſters, His works prove him to have been a man of conſiderable ability, and, though his deſign is among the little maſters. His works are very numerous, amounting to upwards of eight hundred prints. There has been conſiderable diſcuſſion reſpecting Virgilius Solis, particularly whether he ever. engraved in wood. remarks of Bartſch to the catalogue of his prints in tom. Solis is ſupplied by an inſcription at the bottom of his portrait	./cache/nyp.33433082115530.pdf	./txt/nyp.33433082115530.txt