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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    , emerge, or attain to the excellency of the former ages, antient mailers, and renowned works; but to the univerfal decay of noble and heroic ge~ niuties to encourage them: j~Prifcis enim tempori- bus, (fays Petronius*) cum adhuc nuda placeret virtus, vig eb ant art es ingenua, fummumque cert amen inter homines erat, ne quid profuturum faculis diu lateret: i tuque omnium herbarum fuccos Democritus ■expreffit; & ne lapidum virgultorumque vis lateret, ptatem inter experiment a confumpfit: Eudoxus quidem in cacumine excelfijjimi montis confenuit, ut ajtrorum calique motus deprehenderet: Chryfippus ut ad in¬ vent tonem fufficeret, ter helleboro animum deterjit: verum, ut ad plaftas converter, Lyfippum flatus unius lineamentis inherentem inopia exftinxit; & Myron, qui pane hornimm animus ferarumque are compre¬ hend erat ^ non invenit heredem. At nos vino, fcor- tijque demerfi, ne par at as quidem artes audemus cog- nofcere, fed accufa tores antiquit at is, vitia tant urn do- cemus difeimus, &c. Nolito ergo mirari, fi pittura defeat, cum omnibus diis hominibufque formofior vi- deatu; maffa aunt, quam quicquid Apelles, Phidiafue, Graculi delirantes fecerunt. ] “ For in ancient times, “ (fays Petronius) when virtue was admired for “ its own fake, the liberal arts flouriihed, and there £% was an eager emulation among men for the dif- £C covery of whatever might be uleful to poflerity. ct 1 hus Democritus extrafled the juices of the <c various kinds. of herbs, and fpent his life in “ making experiments upon minerals and plants* that he might be acquainted with their virtues. * Satyr. D 4 54 Eudqxus