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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    fond of their works, that at Rhodes alone, that fmall ifland* were no Ids than ieventy-three thou- fand iJtgnd] ftatues *,55 nor were there fewer at Athens, Olympia, Delphi, and feveral other cities, whereof whole armies were transferred to Rome, after Achaia had been conquered by L. Mum mi us* at which period the Greek arts began to rife, and be in fuch reputation among them •, and this to fo high an excefs, as Pliny records of his age, that there were almoft as many ftatues as men, by a kind of noble contention, fays Sir H. Wot ton*, in point of fertility betwixt art and nature , and which he and my lord Bacon improve to a po¬ litic, as well as altogether an expenceful magnify cency. It fhall then l'uffice that we be (paring in thefe inftances, and keep ourfelves to thoie works and intaglias only, which do neareft approach our defign i of which fort may be efteemed thofe amo'$fotyi<7iJLCLTcc feals” mentioned by I liny, in which art that famousPyrgoteles did fo excel, as made Alexander the great ordain, that none fhould prefume to carve his effigies fave him only, to paint or cafthim befides Apelles and Lysippus: Editio vetuit, ne qiiis /e, prater Apellem, Fingeret; aut alius Lyfipgo duceret aray Fort is Alemniri vultum jimuiantia.-1 Had Queen Elizabeth been thus circumfpeeft, there had not been fo many vile copies multiplied , from an ill painting*, as being called in, and brought j to Effex-houfe f, did for feveral years furniffi the paftry-men with peels for the ufe of their ovens. * Element. Arch: t eft. Injlanrat. Sclent. t Hgr * Epijl. 2, + Where mv lord Leicester then lived. ^ .. We