Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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Paris, I801; - Translation of the body of Turenne to the Invalides, 800;- Attempt on the life of Bonaparte, 1800; - Opening
Pattern Five Franc piece, An XI, by H. Auguste.
of the Mount Ginevra Road, I804; I8oi. Turenne buried in
the Temple of Mars, AE. 50 mill. (Bramsen 71).
By this Engraver are also Pattern Five Franc and One Franc
pieces, specimens of which were sold for o. 5.o the two by
Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson &Hodge on 6. April I906.
They were thus described in the Catalogue:
Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, pattern Five-francs, by
H. Auguste, An XI of the French Republic, NN BONAPARTE.PREMR
CONSUL, Bare-headed bust to right; I/L. REPUBLIQUE. FRANCAISE.
Peace winged and holding palm and wreath, walking on globe to
left, below, 5 FRANCS AN XI, and above her head, a star; Pattern
Franc of similar type, but with bust to right, and An XII, both very
fine and very rare, the former with edge inscribed in raised letters.
AUGUSTO, AGOSTINO DE (Ital.). A Neapolitan Engraver, to whom
is ascribed a Carlino with portraits of Ferdinand and Isabella
(I503-I504).
AULUS (B. D. M., Vol.. I I904, p. 89). This ancient Gem-engraver's
signature was more frequently counterfeited than any other. In the
British Museum Collection are a number of XVIII. century intaglios
with it: Sard, laur. head of Jupiter (AYAOY); - Red jasper:
Apollo leaning against a column; - Burnt sard, Venus seated on
rocks, with Cupid flying towards her (AVAOC); - Amethyst,
Cupid seated on the ground (AVAOY);- Sard, Hercules reclining
on rock to r. with a lyre in his r. hand (AVAOY);- Sard, Head
of Ceres (AYAOY). Cf. Dalton, op. cit.
Osborne, Engraved Gems, mentions the following gems by Aulus,
some of which he illustrates: Nymph's head and bust (AYVOY);
- Aphrodite and Eros (AYVOC) (PI. XX, io); -Bust of a young
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