Sculptura: or, the history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise / John Evelyn.

  • John Evelyn
Date:
1755
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Credit: Sculptura: or, the history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with an ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise / John Evelyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cornelius G a l l e , in his St, P rife a s baptifni^ B apenheiws and other Heads after Van Dyke, has fhewed what he was able to perform ^ not to men¬ tion abundance of brontifpeices and other lefs confi- derable of his works. But the count Goudt, a knight of the Palatinate, has publifhed, though very few, yet fome ftupend- ous things, efpecially that of Out B. Saviour s flight into PEgypt by nighty Lhe flory of Pobity and about three or tour more, worthy of all admiration. Swanevelt’s Hiflory of St, John, with divers Land]chapes, P4Ndern’s I) efcent from the crofs, Matham’s Chrift and St. John., A Venus after Rotenhamer, Pope Innocent X, &c. Bronchorst’s rare etchings, efpecially thofe Ruins and Anticahas of Rowe, and, fuperior to all, the incomparable Landfchapes fet forth by Paul Brill (fome of which have been etched in aqua fortis by Nieulant) do extremely well merit to be placed in this our theatre. Bor, to be bnef, becaufe we can only recite the moil remarkable and worthy the collection *, IVIatham is famous for fruits'.\ Boetius or Adam Bolsuerd for his ruf~ tics after Blomaert •, Londerselius^ has taken exceffive pains in his Landfchapes ; and fo has Van Velde in fome few: but, above all, Nicholas de Bruyn (afterTEgidius Coninxlogensis) is wonderful for bofcage ; and the induftry of his un¬ dertaking works of that large volume, which The¬ odore de Bry (reiembling him in name) has been as famous for contracting *, though both of them of a Dutch heavy fpirit, and perfectly fuiting with the times and places: notwithstanding has this lattei F 4 performed