ENCAUSTIC
PAINTING.
ENCAUSTIC:
OR,
Count Caylus’s
Method of Painting
In the Manner of the Ancients.
To which is added
A sure and easy Method for Fixing of CRAYONS.
By J. H. MÜNTZ.
London: Printed for the Author; and A. Webley, at the Bible and Crown near Chancery Lane, Holborn, 1760.
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TO THE
Right Honourable
Richard Lord Edgcumbe,
Controller of his Majesty’s Household.
My Lord,
I Should be afraid to offer you the following Treatise if I couldnot flatter myself with the hope that its intrinsic[Pg vi] Merit, and theIntention it was writ in, would in your noble and generous Mindcounterbalance the Defects and Improprieties of Language, of which, asalmost unavoidable to a Foreigner, it must of course be guilty of.
The subject I present you with is known to you long ago; you saw thefirst Essays and Experiments in Encaustic; You was pleased to approveof them, and to express some[Pg vii] Satisfaction at the least Pictureexecuted in this manner. With what greater Advantage could I usher thisnew Invention into the World, than dedicating it to You; to make itknown that the Greatest Patron of Arts, and the best Judge ofthe Merits of Painting approved of it?—Count Caylus inventedit; under the Sanction of your Lordship’s Name I offer it to thePublic, and with a grateful[Pg viii] Sense for all the Favours and Kindness Youhave at all Times shewn towards me.
I am, my Lord,
your Lordship’s
most obedient
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