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
John Evelyn's history of copperplate engraving and mezzotint, first issued 1662 and reprinted in London by J. Payne in 1755 for collectors, virtuosi and practising engravers. Plates include Prince Rupert's mezzotint head of a bearded man in a turban, Worlidge's etched portrait of Evelyn, perspective apparatus with grid frames, a plaster head and sphere, and an armorial bookplate.
