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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    Rubens’s and Van Dyke’s firft ftudies in Italy Page ,oz •Drawing, how neceffary 6 Academies erected for the virtuofi, by whom jb For what purpofe and how furnifhed , 0 - ,, o6 Greeks and Romans, how they cherifhed and enobled men of art Sculptors and painters chief of the court and retinue to We emperor of Japan JQ Courts of great princes how formerly compofed 3’ 4 How the ancient and mod renowned fculptors were encouraged and others obfeured Painters fhould fometimes draw with the pen What painters made ufe of prints Andcaufed their works to be publifhed How to exprefs the fenfation of the objects by the hatches in graving Whatfhadows are moil graceful And what artifts work bell to imitate Of counter-hatches One colour, the ufe and effeft of it Zeuxis uled but one colour 104 fome 105 106 ib ib relievo or exftancy of 107 111 ib 112 ib ib What other painters were monochromes, and who introduced LflP re it nr fnp ml/Mivf. ib ib ib blazon bearing in 113 ib ib ib ”4 ib the reft of the colours Lights and ihades, their ftupendous effed Coloree what it means The invention of Chevalier Woolfon to coat armour by hatches without letters Tonus, what it imports in graving Of copying after defigns and painting What prints are to be called excellent How to detea the copy of a print from an original print •^qua fortis, for what gravings molt proper .u pubUfted* FinCe RUf>ert Celebrated’and the givings by him The French king an engraver 1 Earl of Sandwich dextrous at graving What emperors philofophers, poets, and other of the noble Greeks and Romans excelled in painting and graving XT !I5> 1 J7> I2°» 121, 122, 122. 12A \7C b,CVer any of the antients excelled in thefe arts, but’what were gentlemen * ^ A Have might not b? taught to grave or paint, and why 1l ~ Graving