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Earthen ware of our modern manufi&ures, which requires
the utmost facility and rapidity in their execution, if the
Ailist does not trace his outline at one stroke, he sails, as
the humidity of his pencil is imbibed, and the Earthy par-
ticles only remain, and this kind of drawing does not allow
of corrections, what is once traced, must remain these
Vases then as Winkelman very justly remarks may be loo-
ked upon as the prodigies of ancient Art, as the smallest
Inse&s, are the wonders of Nature. It appears to me that
the Vases with yellow figures on a black ground, must have
had their figures first cut out of some pliable substance li-
ke Paper, and then applied to the Vase, after which the
varnished black ground was laid on , and the shadows of
the figures intended to be painted remaining under the
substance applied on the Vase in the original Clay Colour,
was filled up with interiour lines according as the subje&s
required, by a masterly hand, and with a Pen or pencil
dipped in the same black varnish that had been laid over
the ground of the Vase; the freedom in the execution of
those lines is truly admirable, and is an evident proof of
the superiour knowdlege of the ancient Greeks in the art
of delign.
I have in my new Colle&ion an unfinished Vase
without the addition of the interiour lines , which seems
to prove the truth of the conjesture above mentioned.
The material which I suppose to have been cut out and
applied to the Vase , and which gave birth to so many
varied and Elegant attitudes, must have been prepared al-
io
Earthen ware of our modern manufi&ures, which requires
the utmost facility and rapidity in their execution, if the
Ailist does not trace his outline at one stroke, he sails, as
the humidity of his pencil is imbibed, and the Earthy par-
ticles only remain, and this kind of drawing does not allow
of corrections, what is once traced, must remain these
Vases then as Winkelman very justly remarks may be loo-
ked upon as the prodigies of ancient Art, as the smallest
Inse&s, are the wonders of Nature. It appears to me that
the Vases with yellow figures on a black ground, must have
had their figures first cut out of some pliable substance li-
ke Paper, and then applied to the Vase, after which the
varnished black ground was laid on , and the shadows of
the figures intended to be painted remaining under the
substance applied on the Vase in the original Clay Colour,
was filled up with interiour lines according as the subje&s
required, by a masterly hand, and with a Pen or pencil
dipped in the same black varnish that had been laid over
the ground of the Vase; the freedom in the execution of
those lines is truly admirable, and is an evident proof of
the superiour knowdlege of the ancient Greeks in the art
of delign.
I have in my new Colle&ion an unfinished Vase
without the addition of the interiour lines , which seems
to prove the truth of the conjesture above mentioned.
The material which I suppose to have been cut out and
applied to the Vase , and which gave birth to so many
varied and Elegant attitudes, must have been prepared al-
io