JOHN JOSEPH,** a very celebrated and well known French engraver, flourished about 1750. He died, according to Basan, some few years since, at Avignon. This extraordinary artist worked entirely with the graver; and he was perfectly master of that instrument. The clearness of his strokes, and the depth of colour which he produced, are far beyond any production prior to his own. The two large plates which he did from Vernet, one representing a storm, the other a calm, must ever be considered as very astonishing exertions of the artist. They are too well known, and too much admired, to need any further eulogium; and were never equalled until they were perhaps surpassed by our countryman Woollet.