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him - - may practically be regarded as the foundation of the idea of Baxter's Intaglio and Letterpress Process. Strange to say, this Process has not its home in Germany, nor' was of German origin, but is the invention of an Englishman, one Elisha Kirkall, a Yorkshireman, who was born at Sheffield about the year 1682. He was the son of a locksmith, from whom he learnt to work and engrave on 1 metal. About the year 1702 he came to London, where he was employed for several years to grave arms, ornaments, etch and cut stamps in hard metal for printing in books. During this period he studied Drawing in the new Academy in Great Colour Printers prior to 1834 37 Queen Street, Lincoln Inn Fields. He apparently married early in life, as appears from his trade card, preserved in the Print Room of the British Museum, which bears the names of Mr. Elisha and Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkall, and the date 3ist August, 1707. In Messrs. Chatto & Jackson's Treatise on Wood Engraving Kirkall is credited with the revival of the Art of Wood Engraving in this country in the eighteenth century. He also is claimed as the first exponent in England of the white line Intaglio manner of Wood Engraving, afterwards brought to such perfection by that great Wood Engraver Thos. Bewick, of Newcastle. Kirkall died in Whitefriars, a district of London between Fleet Street and the Thames, in December, 1742. The Process of Kirkall's in which we are the more particularly interested, as being akin to Baxter's, took its rise in 1722, when he started producing Coloured Prints by engraving a foundation or ke> plate in which Mezzotint and Etching was the medium used, and adding the colour-tones by the superimposition of one or two wood blocks in the manner of the early Italian Chiaroscuro Engravers. Thus we see that