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P R I iS9
PRINTING, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
in a white chequered habit, with the letters of the alphabet on
it; holds a trumpet in one hand, round which is a fcroll, infcri-
bed ubique ; and, in the other, the fempervive, or houfe-leek,
with the word Temper ; a printing-prefs by her, with fome im-
plements.—White mews the impreflion fhould be pure and cor-
rect ; chequered, to fignify the little boxes for the letter; ubi-
que fignifies its being famous every-where.
FRINTS, are of great ufe for drawing, painting, &c. they ars
one of the happieft productions of latter ages.
And they are, in our age, arrived to fo high a degree of per-
fection, and good gravers have furnifhed us with fo many on all
forts of fubjects, that it may truly be laid, they are the depos-
itaries of all that is fine and curious in the world.
The origin of Prints was in the year 1460, and arofe from one
Mafo Finiguerra, a goldfmith of Florence, who having graved
a plate, and calling fome of it in melted fulphur, he perceived
what came out of the mould was marked with the fame Prints
as his plate, by the black which the fulphur had taken from his
graving; he tried to do as much on filver plates with wet pa-
per, by rolling it fmoothly with a roller, which alfo fucceeded.
This novelty tempted Baccio Baldini, a goldfmith of the fame
city, to try whether he could do the fame ; and his fuccefs en-
couraged him to engrave feveral plates of the invention and de-
fign of Sandro Boticello ; and, upon this, Andrea Mantegna,
who was at that time at Rome, fet about engraving fome of his
own pieces.
The knowledge of this invention getting into Flanders, Mar-
tin of Antwerp, then a famous painter, engraved abundance of
plates of his own invention, and fent feveral prints into Itar",
which were marked thus, M. C.
After Martin of Antwerp, Albert Durer began to appear, and
gave the world an infinite number of fine Prints, both in copper
and wood, all which he fent to Venice to be fold.
Marco Antonio, who happened at that time to be there, was
fo charmed with the beauty of thefe Prints, that he copied thir-
ty-fix of them, which reprefented our Saviour's paffion ; and thefe
copies were received at Rome with fo much the more admira-
tion, by how much the more they were finer than the originals.
At the fame time Ugo da Carpi, an Italian painter of a mean
capacity, but of a wit apt for invention, found out, by means of
feveral plates of wood, the wav how to make Prints refemble
defigns in claro obfeuro ; and fome years after the invention of
etching was difcovered, which Parmegiano foon made ufe of.
Thefe firft Prints drew the admiration of all that faw them,
for their novelty ; and the fJdlful painters, who wrought for
slory,
PRINTING, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
in a white chequered habit, with the letters of the alphabet on
it; holds a trumpet in one hand, round which is a fcroll, infcri-
bed ubique ; and, in the other, the fempervive, or houfe-leek,
with the word Temper ; a printing-prefs by her, with fome im-
plements.—White mews the impreflion fhould be pure and cor-
rect ; chequered, to fignify the little boxes for the letter; ubi-
que fignifies its being famous every-where.
FRINTS, are of great ufe for drawing, painting, &c. they ars
one of the happieft productions of latter ages.
And they are, in our age, arrived to fo high a degree of per-
fection, and good gravers have furnifhed us with fo many on all
forts of fubjects, that it may truly be laid, they are the depos-
itaries of all that is fine and curious in the world.
The origin of Prints was in the year 1460, and arofe from one
Mafo Finiguerra, a goldfmith of Florence, who having graved
a plate, and calling fome of it in melted fulphur, he perceived
what came out of the mould was marked with the fame Prints
as his plate, by the black which the fulphur had taken from his
graving; he tried to do as much on filver plates with wet pa-
per, by rolling it fmoothly with a roller, which alfo fucceeded.
This novelty tempted Baccio Baldini, a goldfmith of the fame
city, to try whether he could do the fame ; and his fuccefs en-
couraged him to engrave feveral plates of the invention and de-
fign of Sandro Boticello ; and, upon this, Andrea Mantegna,
who was at that time at Rome, fet about engraving fome of his
own pieces.
The knowledge of this invention getting into Flanders, Mar-
tin of Antwerp, then a famous painter, engraved abundance of
plates of his own invention, and fent feveral prints into Itar",
which were marked thus, M. C.
After Martin of Antwerp, Albert Durer began to appear, and
gave the world an infinite number of fine Prints, both in copper
and wood, all which he fent to Venice to be fold.
Marco Antonio, who happened at that time to be there, was
fo charmed with the beauty of thefe Prints, that he copied thir-
ty-fix of them, which reprefented our Saviour's paffion ; and thefe
copies were received at Rome with fo much the more admira-
tion, by how much the more they were finer than the originals.
At the fame time Ugo da Carpi, an Italian painter of a mean
capacity, but of a wit apt for invention, found out, by means of
feveral plates of wood, the wav how to make Prints refemble
defigns in claro obfeuro ; and fome years after the invention of
etching was difcovered, which Parmegiano foon made ufe of.
Thefe firft Prints drew the admiration of all that faw them,
for their novelty ; and the fJdlful painters, who wrought for
slory,