It is likewise to be acknowleged, that his HIGH129 NESS did indulge me the liberty of publishing the whole manner and addrefs of this NEW WAY OF ENGRAVING, with a freedom perfectly generous and obliging. But, when I had well confidered it (fo much having been already expreffed, which may fuffice to give the hint to all ingenious perfons how it is to be performed,) I did not think it neceffary, that an ART fo curious, and (as yet) fo little vulgar (and which indeed does not fucceed where the workman is not an accomplished DESIGNER, and has a competent talent in PAINTING likewife) was to be prostituted at fo cheap a rate, as the more naked defcribing of it here would too foon have exposed it to. Upon these confiderations then it is, that we leave it thus enigmatical: and yet that this may appear no difingenuous rodomontade in me, or invidious excufe, I profefs myself to be always most ready (fub figillo, and by his HIGHNESS's permiffion) to gratify any curious and worthy perfon, with as full and perfect a demonftration of the entire art, as my talent and address will reach to; if what I am now preparing to be referved in the archives of the ROYAL SOCIETY concerning it, be not fufficiently instructive. Of sculpture, how derived and distinguished; with the styles and inftruments belonging to it Ebur pingue 16 K 2 18, 19 Cavatores, what; graphatores, whence our English gravers : Inftruments of graving. Style, what. Why fometimes made of bone. Scalprum. Cœlum. Cales, cœltes. Allufions in Job x. to all the kinds of ancient writing and graving 20,21 Graving inftruments fometimes fatal Caffianus martyred, and Erixion flain with a graving ftyle ib Arare campum cereum, cerei pugillares, and ftylum vertere, Taille douce, burin, intaglia, bolino, and the difference be- СНАР. II. The fall of Adam did not impair his infused habits Of the Antediluvian Patriarchs Sculpture long before the universal flood Sculpture in ftone and brick at Joppa tinuing The celeftial sciences firft engraven, where, and how long con- ib Zoroafter, when he flourished, his learning, curiofity, and en- ib Picus Mirandula's pretence of the books of Zoroafter, the ib The tables of ftone engraven by the finger of GOD. ture honoured by GOD Sculpture abused to idolatry no rational prejudice Sculpture elder than idolatry Teraphim and Penates, what Sculpture preserved the memory of the dead Bezaleel and Aholiab fculptors The facerdotal pectoral Graving used by the Ægyptians before they invented Letters ib Hieroglyphics, what By whom interpreted Amongst the Danes and Acadia Horapollinis notæ Letters by whom invented, and the contest about it How they were derived to the several Nations Columns erected by Seth ib 28 24, 42 28 ib ib ib 29 ib Writing with ink in paper or parchment, a novelty in respect of the more ancient materials, marbles, flates, bark, leaves, tablets of wood, paper, linen, wax, ivory and filk Book, our English name for liber, whence derived Laws, divine and human, how configned of old A paffage cited out of him proving the antiquity of recording by fculpture Hefiod's poems engraven in lead Grecians, when they had sculpture firft, and where it was in its highest perfection Achilles and Hercules' fhields engraven The chariot of the fun and vehicula cælata Intaglias in iron, gold, ftones, &c. Talismans and conftellated fculptures CHAP. III. Of the reputation and progrefs of sculpture amongst the Greeks and Romans, down to the middle ages; with fome pretenfions to the invention of copper cuts, and their impreffions 33 |