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about earthen figures and plaiffer figures, a long time before it
was known how to caft in metal.
Casting figures in lead. There are not fo many precautions
recelTary when figures are call: in lead, as when they are done
in brafs ;* becau'e lead is not fo ffrong. See STATUES.
The workman only fills the cavities with earth well ma-
naged, of what thicknefs he pleafes; then he fills all the mould
with plainer or tile-duff, with which the foul is made.
"When the foul is^finifhed, all the pieces of the mould are ta-
ken afunder, to take off the earth ; and then, being clofed again,
are put about the foul, but at four or five inches diftance.
That interval is filled with coal from top to bottom ; all the
gaps between the pieces of the mould are filled with brick, and,
the coal being fet fire to, it is all lighted. This is to feethe the
foul, and dry the plaifter mould which the earth had wetted.
When all the coal has been well lighted, and after it is gone
out of itfelf, the workman takes a pair of bellows, and blows off"
the afhes that may have got into the pieces of the mould ; then
thofe pieces are joined together again as before about the mould ;
all the chapes are well tied with cords, and covered with plaifter;
after which, the melted lead is poured into the mould, which
lead fills the fpace which was taken up by the earth ; nor is it
recelTary to earth the mould, as in calling in brafs, unlefs it is
for great figures.
Francis CAVEAU, who engraved a great many plates,
ufed this mark.
Frederico CASAUBON, alias KERSEBOOM, was born at
Solingen, a city of Germany, in the year 1623. At eighteen years
of age, he went to Amfterdam, to be inftrudled in the art of
painting; to Paris in 1630, and worked fome years under Mon-
iieur le Brun , but afterwards was fent to Italy by the chancel-
lor of France, and maintained there, by that mimfter, for four-
teen years, two whereof he fpent with Nicholas Pouffin, of
whole manner he was fo nice an imitator, that fome of his pieces
were taken for his. Thus qualified for hiftory -painting, he came
to England ; but, not finding encouragement that way, he bent
his ftudies towards portraits, wherein he was not unfuccefsful,
either as to drawing or hkenefs. He was the firft who brought
over the manner of painting on glafs (not with a print, as the
common way now is) in which he performed fome hiftories and
heads exceedingly well. Perfpeclive he underftood thoroughly,
having been difciple to two excellent mafters in that art; and
was, in fhort, an accomplifhed painter. He died in London in
the year 1690, and lies buried in St. Andrew's Holborn.
C. C. Fecit, ftands fometimes for Camillas Congius, and
z fometimes
about earthen figures and plaiffer figures, a long time before it
was known how to caft in metal.
Casting figures in lead. There are not fo many precautions
recelTary when figures are call: in lead, as when they are done
in brafs ;* becau'e lead is not fo ffrong. See STATUES.
The workman only fills the cavities with earth well ma-
naged, of what thicknefs he pleafes; then he fills all the mould
with plainer or tile-duff, with which the foul is made.
"When the foul is^finifhed, all the pieces of the mould are ta-
ken afunder, to take off the earth ; and then, being clofed again,
are put about the foul, but at four or five inches diftance.
That interval is filled with coal from top to bottom ; all the
gaps between the pieces of the mould are filled with brick, and,
the coal being fet fire to, it is all lighted. This is to feethe the
foul, and dry the plaifter mould which the earth had wetted.
When all the coal has been well lighted, and after it is gone
out of itfelf, the workman takes a pair of bellows, and blows off"
the afhes that may have got into the pieces of the mould ; then
thofe pieces are joined together again as before about the mould ;
all the chapes are well tied with cords, and covered with plaifter;
after which, the melted lead is poured into the mould, which
lead fills the fpace which was taken up by the earth ; nor is it
recelTary to earth the mould, as in calling in brafs, unlefs it is
for great figures.
Francis CAVEAU, who engraved a great many plates,
ufed this mark.
Frederico CASAUBON, alias KERSEBOOM, was born at
Solingen, a city of Germany, in the year 1623. At eighteen years
of age, he went to Amfterdam, to be inftrudled in the art of
painting; to Paris in 1630, and worked fome years under Mon-
iieur le Brun , but afterwards was fent to Italy by the chancel-
lor of France, and maintained there, by that mimfter, for four-
teen years, two whereof he fpent with Nicholas Pouffin, of
whole manner he was fo nice an imitator, that fome of his pieces
were taken for his. Thus qualified for hiftory -painting, he came
to England ; but, not finding encouragement that way, he bent
his ftudies towards portraits, wherein he was not unfuccefsful,
either as to drawing or hkenefs. He was the firft who brought
over the manner of painting on glafs (not with a print, as the
common way now is) in which he performed fome hiftories and
heads exceedingly well. Perfpeclive he underftood thoroughly,
having been difciple to two excellent mafters in that art; and
was, in fhort, an accomplifhed painter. He died in London in
the year 1690, and lies buried in St. Andrew's Holborn.
C. C. Fecit, ftands fometimes for Camillas Congius, and
z fometimes