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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    to thole truly royal works, poets, and other authors, printed at the Louvre. Mauperch has publifhed fome pretty Land- fchapes \ La Pautre many moll ufeful varieties and Ornaments for architects and other workmen, florid and full of fancy, efpecially The ceremonies at the coroyiation of the prefent French king. Morin has left us A St. Bernard, A Scully his great Crucifix, fome rare Heads, efpecially that re- prefenting Our hlejfed Saviour and other things in aqua fortis, performed with fingular art and ten- dernefs *, as alfo fome rare Land]chapes and Ruins after Polemburch and others. N. Chaperon has etched The Xyftus or gallery of Raphael in the Vatican, with incomparable fuccefs as to the true draught j and fo has that ex^ ceilent painter the late Francis Perrier thofe Statues and Bafifo- reUevos of Rome, preferable to any that are yet extant. Audran’s St. Catharine after Titian, who is not ravifhed with ? Couvay has engraven the Three devout captive knights • and what may appear very extraordinary, ut quae celant nomina calatura aperiat, the firff part of Defpauterins’s grammar in picture, or hieroglyphic for the duke of Anjou, the now monfieur. Perelle has difcovered a particular talent for Landfchapes, if not a little exceeded in the darknefs of his lhades *, but his Ruins of Rome are very rare : he has like wife a fon that graves. The excellency of invention in the Romances and Wjhries adorned by the hand of Chauveau, is not