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4 AGR
ferpcnt on the other; fhe is naked, becaufe it does not abound
with materials for cloathing; the elephant is an animal with
which Africa abounds; as it alfo does in vipers and ferpents.
A. G. ftands for Albert Glochentonius, in the twelve plates
reprefenting our Saviour's paffion.
AGATE, a precious ftone, partly tranfparent, and partly
epake. There are various kinds of Agates ; which according
to their colours, degrees of tranfparency, &c. have different
names; as the onyx, the chalcedony, the black and the Ger-
man Agates. The Agate has commonly a reddifh teint; but
is finely variegated with fpots and ftains, many of which feem
very naturally to reprefent woods, rivers, trees, flowers, fruits,
animals, &c.
The fardines and fardonyx Agates are very valuable; the
latter is of a fanguine colour, and is divided into zones, which
feem as if they had been painted by art.
Agate has always been efteemed for feals, as being a ftone
that no wax will ftick to.
Gold wire-drawers burnifh their gold with an Agate, whence
the inftrument ufed for that purpofe is called an Agate.
AGE, in genera], is reprefented, in painting, by a lady in a
garment of three colours, holding up her hands, with a fun in
her right hand, and a moon in her left; the right being higher
than the left ; and below a bafilifk erecled.
The changeable habit denotes the changing; of the minds
and purpofes of feveral Ages; the fun and moon intimate their
regulating the three principal members, the head, heart, and
liver, where the vital, animal, and natural virtues refide.
Robert AGGAS, a good Englifh landfcape-painter, both
in oil and difiemper; in which kind he painted many fcenes
for the play-houfe in Covent-garden ; there are not many of
his pictures extant amoneff us; of thofe that are the moft con-
fiderable, is a piece of landfcape, prefented by him to the com-
pany of painter-ftainers, (whereof he was a member) and which
now hangs in their hall; he was reckoned amongft the beft of
our Englifh landfcape-painters ; and died in London 1679, and
about fixty years of age.
AGOSTINO, a Venetian, fcholar to Mark Antonio Rai-
mondi, in Rome, engraved the paintings of Raphael Julio Ro-
mano, and others ; ufed the mark reprefented on plate I, Nu. 2.
He alfo marked with the letters AVI, or AV, 1525.
AGRICULTURE, is reprefented in painting with a home-
ly face, but comely notwithstanding; cloathed in a green gown,
crowned with a garland of ears of corn, holding a zodiac in
her left hand, a fhrub in her right, and a plough-fhare at her
feet.
z Her
ferpcnt on the other; fhe is naked, becaufe it does not abound
with materials for cloathing; the elephant is an animal with
which Africa abounds; as it alfo does in vipers and ferpents.
A. G. ftands for Albert Glochentonius, in the twelve plates
reprefenting our Saviour's paffion.
AGATE, a precious ftone, partly tranfparent, and partly
epake. There are various kinds of Agates ; which according
to their colours, degrees of tranfparency, &c. have different
names; as the onyx, the chalcedony, the black and the Ger-
man Agates. The Agate has commonly a reddifh teint; but
is finely variegated with fpots and ftains, many of which feem
very naturally to reprefent woods, rivers, trees, flowers, fruits,
animals, &c.
The fardines and fardonyx Agates are very valuable; the
latter is of a fanguine colour, and is divided into zones, which
feem as if they had been painted by art.
Agate has always been efteemed for feals, as being a ftone
that no wax will ftick to.
Gold wire-drawers burnifh their gold with an Agate, whence
the inftrument ufed for that purpofe is called an Agate.
AGE, in genera], is reprefented, in painting, by a lady in a
garment of three colours, holding up her hands, with a fun in
her right hand, and a moon in her left; the right being higher
than the left ; and below a bafilifk erecled.
The changeable habit denotes the changing; of the minds
and purpofes of feveral Ages; the fun and moon intimate their
regulating the three principal members, the head, heart, and
liver, where the vital, animal, and natural virtues refide.
Robert AGGAS, a good Englifh landfcape-painter, both
in oil and difiemper; in which kind he painted many fcenes
for the play-houfe in Covent-garden ; there are not many of
his pictures extant amoneff us; of thofe that are the moft con-
fiderable, is a piece of landfcape, prefented by him to the com-
pany of painter-ftainers, (whereof he was a member) and which
now hangs in their hall; he was reckoned amongft the beft of
our Englifh landfcape-painters ; and died in London 1679, and
about fixty years of age.
AGOSTINO, a Venetian, fcholar to Mark Antonio Rai-
mondi, in Rome, engraved the paintings of Raphael Julio Ro-
mano, and others ; ufed the mark reprefented on plate I, Nu. 2.
He alfo marked with the letters AVI, or AV, 1525.
AGRICULTURE, is reprefented in painting with a home-
ly face, but comely notwithstanding; cloathed in a green gown,
crowned with a garland of ears of corn, holding a zodiac in
her left hand, a fhrub in her right, and a plough-fhare at her
feet.
z Her