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Catalog of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts and small statues (1787)

Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795, Wedgwood Society of New York · New York : Wedgwood Society of New York · leaf 87

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The ingenious experiments of Count Caylus, for recover-ing the ancient art of making the pidlures called encaujiic inanother branch of painting, had the fame objefl as mine inpoint of tafte, but in other refpefls there is no refemblancebetween the two arts: his colours are applied on canvas bythe… … CLASS XVII. 6s appear, by the fuitable application of it, to merit attention.But a better idea of it than can be conveyed in words, maybe obtained by examining the fpecimens, which have al-ready been honoured with places in the cabinets of moil: ofthe princes and amateurs in Europe. The figures…

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