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.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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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    Sculpture where and when in its afcendent Page 33, 37 Statues to what head reducible. 33 Sculptores marmoris, metal, in gypfum, &c,. ib Signa at Rhodes, Athens, and other places, in what prodigious numbers 34 Statues almod as many as men ib The conted betwixt art and nature in point of fertility ib Statues improveable to a politic as well as expenceful magni- ficency ib krnia'fp-potyttrf/xitTcx. „ ib Pyrgoteles only permitted to engrave the effigies of Alexander the great ib The pictures of queen Elizabeth and other princes, how profaned and abufed 34, 35 Augudus would have his figure cut only by Diofcorides, and why . 35 Sculpture in what materials mod eminent ib Dipoenus, Prometheus, Ideocus, Eucirapus, Lyfidratus, De- mophilus, Daedalus, Leochares, Policarmus, Myrmecides, all famous i'culptors ib Figulinavafa caelata, why broken by Cotys 36 Hydriae engraven, and bread ib Gold feldom engraven, and why ib Mentor his curious works ib Acragus his works ib Boethus’s mader pieces ib The works of Calamis, Antipater, Stratonicus, Taurifeus, Arideus, Eunicus, Hecates, Praxiteles, Pofidonius, Ledus, Zopirus, Pytheus 37 Medalids, who mod excellent, and in what emperor’s times the bed were cut. When they degenerated 37, 62 Sculpture, when it degenerated in Greece and Rome 37 And whence its decay proceeded ib Sculpture, when it arrived at Rome ib Sculpture and writing, when find among the Danes and Nor- vegians 38 Runic characters ib Grsef-fasx, what ib V ice and avarice, the occafion why fculpture degenerated, and is not fince arrived to the perfection of the ancients 39 By what means it may recover 40 - Alexander