Father Marie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle (March 24, 1727, in Nédonchel – February 9, 1805, in Fontainbleau) was a French religious prosecutor of the convent of Petits-Augustins de Paris, surveyor and topographer, passionate about music and mechanics and inventor of a musical recording process. He published his treatise in 1775 La Tonotechnie ou l'Art de noter les cylindres, et tout ce qui est susceptible de notage dans les instruments de concerts méchaniques sur la façon de noter le picotage des rouleaux d'orgues mécaniques in English Tonotechnie or the Art of notating cylinders, and everything that is capable of noting in mechanical concert instruments on how to note the pecking of mechanical organ rolls. His brother Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle (1734–1814), also an Augustinian monk in Paris, was a renowned entomologist who, who commissioned by Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d'Orcy published between 1779 and 1792 a publication illustrating the butterflies of Europe in 28 notebooks divided into 8 volumes of nearly 3000 drawings engraved then painted by hand which sold by subscription in 250 copies under the title: "Butterflies of Europe painted from nature by M.Ernst, engraved by M.Gérardin, and colored under their direction, described by R.P. Engramelle, Augustinian monk from the Saint Germain district".This work also illustrates lepidoptera from the cabinets of D'Orcy's fellow collector Johann Christian Gerning.
Works
editMarie-Dominique-Joseph Engramelle
- Tonotechnie or the art of notating cylinders, in Paris at Delaguette/ Basan & Poignant, 1775 (Facsimile editions Hermann, 1993).
- He also collaborated on The Art of the Organ Maker by Dom Bedos de Celles, 1766–1778.
Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle
- Butterflies of Europe painted from nature by M.Ernst, engraved by M.Gérardin, and colored under their direction, described by R.P. Engramelle, Augustinian monk from the Saint Germain district, in Paris at Delaguette/ Basan & Poignant, 1779–1792.Several other illustrators contributed most notably Maria Eleonora Hochecker.
References
edit- Dance S. Peter And Hancock E. Geoffrey,1991Butterflies, Moths and Other Insects (Classic Natural History Prints)Studio Editions., ISBN 9781851703913
- Groll, E. K. (2017). Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. Online database, version 8. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
- Girardin, M. P. 2015: Découverte d'une planche ayant longtemps joué l'Arlésienne : la planche VI du 4 e supplément à l'ouvrage « Papillons d'Europe, peints d'après nature » initié par Jean-Jacques ERNST et le Révérend Père Jacques Louis Florentin ENGRAMELLE. Alexanor : Revue française de Lépidoptérologie ISSN 0002-5208, Paris 26 (6), S. 325–348
- Homberg, R., 1953 Some unknown plates in Ernst & Engramelle's Papillons d'Europe peints d'apres nature, 1779-1793. Journal of the Society for the bibliography of natural history, v. 3 (Dec. 1953), p. 28-33.
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