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Rubens's and Van Dyke's first studies in Italy
Drawing, how neceflary

Academies erected for the virtuofi, by whom
For what

purpo and how furnished

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Greeks and Romans, how they cherished and enobled men of

art

Sculptors and painters chief of the court and

emperor of Japan

Courts of great princes how formerly compofed

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

Painters fhould fometimes draw with the pen

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106

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How to exprefs the fenfation of the relievo or exftancy of

objects by the hatches in graving

107

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What fhadows are moft graceful

And what artists work beft to imitate
Of counter-hatches

One colour, the use and effect of it

Zeuxis used but one colour

What other painters were monochromifts, and who introduced

112

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III

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The invention of Chevalier Woolfon to blazon bearing in

coat-armour by hatches without letters

113

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

114

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

The French king an engraver
Earl of Sandwich dextrous at graving

115

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What emperors, philofophers, poets, and other of the noble
Greeks and Romans excelled in painting and graving
115, 116, 117, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125
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

116

117

Graving

Graving accounted one of the liberal arts by Pliny and

Galen

Children inftructed in the graphical arts

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

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117

Great scholars of late skillful in the art of graving, &c.
How far the art of drawing conduces to the sciences mathe-
matical

Dr. Chr. Wren, Blagrave, Hevelius, &c. celebrated
An orator ought to be skilled in these arts, and why

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The Abbot de Maroles, his fingular affection to, and prodigious
collections of prints

118, 119

Of what great ufe and benefit the art of graving may be to the
education of children fuperior to all other inventions, and
how

120, 121, 122, 123

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Prints more estimable than painting, and why
What gentlemen of quality are the greatest collectors of prints
in France

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

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

An hieroglyphical grammar

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121

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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122

The univerfal language how to be moft probably accomplished ib
Paffions expreffible by the art of Defign

An useful caution for the lovers of these arts

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Of the new way of engraving, or mezzotinto, invented and
communicated by his highness prince Rupert, &c. 127
An advantageous commutation for omitting the defcription of
the mechanical part of the vulgar graving

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A paradoxical graving without burin, point, or aqua fortis ib
The new mezzotinto invented by his highness prince Rupert
enigmatically described, and why

129

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