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The French calligraphers Page 86 The English chalcographers and their works; Payne, ecil, Wright, Faithorne, Barlow, Gaywood, Lightfoot, Glover, J. Fellian, and Switzer 91, 92 Medal-gravers, and for intaglias, Symonds, Rawlins, Reftrick, Johnfon Calligraphers, Coker, Gery, Gething, Billingly, &c. ib An invitation to the English Chalcographers to publish his Majefty's collection, the benefit and honour of it 92, 93 The landfchapes, views, palaces, of England, Levantine parts, Indies, &c. together with the cities, ifles, trees, plants, flowers and animals, to be cut in copper and reformed, were a most acceptable and useful work Painters encouraged to fet their hands to the The use of this collection

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Of drawing and defign, previous to the art of chalcography; and of the use of pictures in order to the education of children

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Measure and proportion have influence on all our actions
A faying of Thomas earl of Arundel and Surry
Drawing of what confequence to the art of graving
Defign the bafis of sculpture, and of many other free and noble
fciences

Original Drawings efteemed, and for what

Antiquity of what effect

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Defign and Drawing defined and distinguished, its antiquity and invention

Accident and chance fruitful mothers

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Drawing with crayon, pen, &c. the method, and how to be performed with fuccefs Hatching, what and how attained by imitating good mafters, and by what method Overmuch exactness and finishing, a fault in drawing, and why. Polycletus's canon

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Accurate defigns with the pen not esteemed, and why. Who excelled in them to admiration.

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Vander Douse, Francis and John Cleyne, Francis Carter, &c. celebrated

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Colours, the production of a middle colour wrought on two

extreams

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Rubens's

Rubens's and Van Dyke's first studies in Italy

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Drawing, how neceflary

Academies erected for the virtuofi, by whom
For what purpose and how furnished

Greeks and Komans, how they cherished and enobled inen of

art

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Sculptors and painters chief of the court and retinue to the
emperor of Japan

Courts of great princes how formerly composed

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How the ancient and most renowned fculptors were fome
encouraged and others obfcured

Painters fhould sometimes draw with the pen

What painters made use of prints

And caused their works to be published

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How to express the fenfation of the relievo or exftancy of

objects by the hatches in graving

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the reft of the colours

Lights and fhades, their ftupendous effect

Coloreè what it means

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What other painters were monochromifts, and who introduced

The invention of Chevalier Woolfon to blazon bearing in

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coat-armour by hatches without letters

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Tonus, what it imports in graving

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Of copying after defigns and painting

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What prints are to be called excellent

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How to detect the copy of a print from an original print
Aqua fortis, for what gravings most proper

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His highness prince Rupert celebrated, and the gravings by him
published

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The French king an engraver
Earl of Sandwich dextrous at graving
What emperors, philofophers, poets, and other of the noble
Greeks and Romans excelled in painting and graving
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Never any of the antients excelled in these arts, but what
were gentlemen

A flave might not be taught to grave or paint, and why

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Graving accounted one of the liberal arts by Pliny and

Galen

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Mártia the daughter of Varro, the princefs Louife, and
Anna a Schurman, celebrated

Children inftructed in the graphical arts

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Great scholars of late skillful in the art of graving, &c. 117

How far the art of drawing conduces to the Iciences mathe-
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Prints more eftimable than painting, and why

What gentlemen of quality are the greateft collectors of prints

in France

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At how high rates the prints of the most famous mafters are
now fold

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Collections of prints recommended to princes and great perfons,
and why

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By whom draughts and prints are celebrated for the inftitution.
of youth

La Martela taught all the fciences by cuts alone

Commenius his orbis fenfualium pictus celebrated

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Of the new way of engraving, or mezzotinto, invented and

communicated by his highnefs prince Rupert, &c. 127

An advantageous commutation for omitting the defcription of
the mechanical part of the vulgar graving

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