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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    experience *, and could here produce examples beyond belief in a child at prefent not fix years old, who does both know and perfectly comprehend fuch things and adtions, as hardly any at fixteen, dome at twenty have yet attained, who perfue the common method of our grammar fchools without thefe aids and advantages : for, fince [nihil eft in intelleftu, quod non prius fuit in fenfu*] “ all our “ ideas are originally derived from our ienfes,” and that as the poet had well oblerved, Segnius irritant animos demiftd per aurem, Quam quee funt oculis fubjeffa fidelibus-*f. ---What we hear. With weaker paffion will afiFedt the heart, Than when the faithful eye beholds the part: Francis. what can there be more likely to inform and delight them, [dum animus majora non capita] “ while they “ are incapable of higher things,” than the pictures and reprefentations of thofe things which they are to learn ? We did mention before the Hieroglyphical grammar publilhed by Dr. Couvay ; and it is well known, how Eilhardus Lubinus, in an epiftle ^0 the duke of Stetin, has celebrated and contrived an inflitution of youth by this Art : fuch as was alfo the defign of that prodigy of a man. La M ar¬ te lay, who had already collected and digefted fuch a choice number of cuts, and lo univerlal, as by which he more than pretended (for he really ef- * Aristqt. t Horat. fedted