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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    Anthony's temptation, prodigious for the fancy and invention ; St. Manfuetus raifing a dead prince *, A hijhop preaching in a wood; divers Books of land- fchapes and fea peices •, efpecially thole admirable cuts of his in a book intitled Trattato di terra fanta, wherein moll of the religious places of Jerufalem, temples, profpebls, &c. about the Holy Land, are graved to the life by the hand of this excellent mailer, (the book is very rare and never to be en- countred amongft the colleblion of his prints;) The duke of Lorrain's palace and garden at Nancy ; alfo another paper of a tournament there, both of them moft rare things; Military exercifes ; The miferies of war in eighteen leaves very choice ; The battle of Thefeus ; Combat at the Barrier; Entrance of the great duke, with all the fcenes and reprefentations at the duke of Florence’s nuptials ; The Catafalco eredled at the emperor Mathias’s death ; the fa¬ mous Siege at Rochel, a very large print; alfo the Night-peice of the cheats and wenches at play, Maf- querades, Gobbi, Beggers, Gypjies, Balli and Dances, Fantafies, Capriccios, Jubilatio Triumphi B. Virgi- nis9 which was it ieems graved for a Thefts; and finally The Cabaret, or meeting of debauchees, which (being the laft plate that ever he graved) had not the aqua fortis given it till after his dc- ceafe. And thus we have in brief polled over the ftupendous works of this inimitable mailer, whofe point and manner of etching was nothing inferior, nay fometimes even exceeded the moll lkilful bu¬ rin. But at length [ft pudor & finis'] “ I delift and fhall here conclude the recital of the French Chalcographers, fo many for their numbers, laborious