Sculptura Historico-Technica: or, The History And Art Of Engraving. Containing, I. The Rise and Progress of Engraving. II. Of Engraving in general. III. Of Engraving,Etching, and Scraping on Copper, as now practised. IV. An Idea of a Fine Collection of Prints. V. The Repertorium; or, A Collection of various Marks and Cyphers, with Additions. To which is now added, A Chronological and Historical Series of the Painters from the Eleventh Century. Extracted from Baldinucci, Florent le Compte, Fairthorne, the Abecedario Pittorico, and other Authors. With Copper-Plates. The Third Edition.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2457

Variant Title

History And Art Of Engraving

Imprint

London:: Printed for J. Marks, in St. Martin's lane., M DCC LXVI.

Physical Description

xi, [i], 264 p., 10 pl.: figs.; 176 mm. (Duodecimo.)

Contents

[T.p.] - The Preface - The Contents - [Text, with pl.].

Responsibility Note

Much of the text is derived from P.A. Orlandi's Abecedario Pittorico (Bologna, 1719) and A. Bosse's De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin (nouv. éd., Paris, 1758).

No plate is signed; all derive from Bosse's De la manière de graver.

References

ESTC, T148066

Summary Note

This is an expansion of Repertorium sculptile-typicum (1730).

Reproductions

An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge CT: Research Publications).

Provenance

Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.

Binding Note

20th-century half calf, grey cloth-covered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'History And Art Of Engraving'; spine lettered 'R.A. 1766'.

Subject

Engraving - Techniques - Engravers, European - Painters, European - Engravers' marks - History
Manuals - Art history - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century

Contributors