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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    “ and Michael Angelo, were never of any A. cademy , and Newton was not indebted to thi , “ Royal Society for any of his difcoveries in Optics “ Gravitation, Fluxions or Chronology. Wha l' purpoie or end, therefore, do Academies an* “ iwer ? or what is their chief utility ? Whj “ to cheriih, to keep alive, and to diffufe thofd “ lights, which thefe great Geniufes have en- <c kindled.’5 The winter of m,dc,lxxxiii, being memo¬ rably fevere, the fine plantations ol our author at Sayes Court fufiered irreparable .damage; oi: which he gave a philofophical and pathetica] account to the Royal Society, the fucceeding: fpring. cc This garden was exquifite, fays Mr. North, * “ being moft tofcarefque; and,, as it were, an exemplar of his book of forefb “ trees.55 But the Czar of Mufcovy, who afterwards refided in this houfe of Mr. Eve¬ lyn, to be near Deptford-Yard, committed al- moft as great devaluations on his delicious garden,, as this lamentable froft. After King James afcended the throne,, we find our author in December m,dc,lxxxv,J. appointed, with the Lord Viicount Tiviot, and; Colonel Robert Phillips, one of the^ com- mifiioners for executing the great office of Lord Privy Seal, in the abfence of Henry Earl of * Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, p. 286. £ Biographia Britannia, p. 1864. Clarendon,