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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    SC U LPTU RA: OR, THE Hist o r y and Art O F Chalcography. ' BOOK THE first! t ... - CHAP. I. Of Sculpture, how derived and diftinguifhed, with thfr Stiles and Injlruments belonging to it. THOSE, who have mod refined and criti¬ cized upon technical notions, feem to dif- tinguilh what we commonly name Sculp¬ ture into three feveral arts, and to attri¬ bute fpecifical differences to them all : for there is, befides Sculptura (as it relates to Chalcography) Scalptura (fo Diomedes*) and Cxlatura *, both which,according toQuirtTiLiAN-f, differ from the firfl [ratione materi<e~] “ in refpe<5tof the materials. * Lib. i. i i. 3. f. ZI. For