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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    2 8 s C U L P T U R A : or, merita memorise human# imprejjd/axis'] 44 moftancimt records engraven on Hone.’3 Such as were alfo j tht hoy apollmis notify and all thole other venerable, j antiquities of this nature, tranfported to Rome out his than two-and-forty prodigious obelifks, of late interpreted by the induftrious Kir- Cher before cited. burn as attributes the invention to the Father of the faithful, others to i HEUT or Hermes, fome to Cadmus and the Phoenicians. Ribliander will have letters and Sculpture from Adam, Josephus from Enoch, Philo from Abraham, Eusebius from Moses, Cyprian from Saturn ; where, by the way’ became tis faid he did /itetas imprimerej 44 print letters, Peter Calaber, who much affefts to call himfelf Pomponius Laetus, foolifhly de¬ duces, that even the typographical art was known in the age of this hero*^ but thence, as we faid, it defended to the Egyptians by Misraim, and fo was communicated to the Perfians Medes and Aiivnans, thence to the Greeks, and finally to the Romans, from whom it was derived to us • as ^ f \ 1 R Crinitus in his xvuth. book de honejta dijciplina , out of a very ancient manufcript bihlP othecetr feptimiana feems to deduce, and thus fum them up together : [Moyfes primus Hebraic as exaravit liter as', Mente Phcenices fagaci condiderunt At tic as; Auas Latini fcriptitamus, edidit Nicoftrata ; i Abraham Syr as, fc? idem repperit Chaldaicas ; 1 Ifis arte non minore, protulit Adgyptiacasj Gulfila prom fit Get arum, cguas vidcmus lit eras.] Moses * Vossius in Art, Hilt. f Cap. i.