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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    artium peritus erit orator, Jt de omnibus ei dicendum eft*] 44 he that would fpeak well upon all fubjedb, 64 fhould he ignorant ol none.51 It was Cicero that taught Quintilian the importance of it, where he tells us, that in his opinion, no man could pretend to be \omni laude cumulatus or at or f] 44 a perfedl and accomplifhed orator indeed,” [nifi erit omnium rerum magnarum atone artium fcientiam confecutus] 44 unlefs he be {killed in all the valuable 44 parts of fcience.” It is the fentence of that great man, and therefore to be embraced by us, efpecialiy on this occafion ; becaufe it was immediately after he had exprefly inflanced in C^latur a & Sculp- tura, that of cutting and engraving : for it is worth the obfervation, that the ages which did moil excel in eloquence, did alfo flourifh moil in These Arts, as in the time of Demosthenes, and the fame Cicero ; and as they appeared, fo they com¬ monly vanifhed together \ and this remark is uni- verfal. But now for clofe of all, and to verify the ad¬ mirable ufe which may be derived from this incom¬ parable Art above the reft, let us hear what the learned abbot of Vilieloin,monfieurDe Marolles, has left upon record in the Memoirs of his own life, Anno mdcxliv, after he had made a very hand- ibme Difcoitrfe (which we recommend to all good Roman catholics) concerning images, upon occafion of a fuperftitious frequenting of a certain renowned fhrine pretended to have done miracles at Paris, but was detedied to be an impofture. The paffage is thus : I)ieu m\a fait la grace, &c. * Quintil. inft. 1. zV * f De Orat, i. I am