Mengs, Anton Raphael; Nibiano, José Nicolás de Azara de [Hrsg.]; Mengs, Anton Raphael [Mitarb.]: The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs: first painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles III. (Band 2) (London: Faulder, 1796)

RAPHAEL MENGS.

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LETTER

OF

ANTHONr RAPHAEL MENGS,

UPON THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND DECAY,

OF THE

ART OF DESIGNINGS

THE result of our conversations refpe&ing
A the art of designing, is the request that you
makeme of writing myopinion upon its rise pro-
gress, and decay. Very voluntarily would I do
it, by discovering to you all that which by long
experience and ressexion I have learnt, is I could