Catalogue of cameos, intaglios, medals, bas-reliefs, busts and small statues : with a general account of tablets, vases, ecritoires, and other ornamental and useful articles : the whole formed in different kinds of porcelain and terra cotta, chiefly after the antique, and the finest models of modern artists (1787)
corations. The ingenious experiments of Count Caylus, for recover-ing the ancient art of making the pi£lures called encaufiic inanother branch of painting, had the fame objefl as mine \\\point of talle, but in other refpeds there is no refemblancebetween the two arts: his colours are applied on… … C L A J5 S XVIT. 65 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 moft ofthe princes and amateurs in Europe. The figures…
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