ENCAUSTIC PAINTING.
Reading edition
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.
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 could not flatter myself with the hope that its intrinsic Merit, and the Intention it was writ in, would in your noble and generous Mind counterbalance the Defects and Improprieties of Language, of which, as almost 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 the first Essays and Experiments in Encaustic; You was pleased to approve of them, and to express some Satisfaction at the least Picture executed in this manner. With what greater Advantage could I usher this new Invention into the World, than dedicating it to You; to make it known that the Greatest Patron of Arts, and the best Judge of the Merits of Painting approved of it?—Count Caylus invented it; under the Sanction of your Lordship’s Name I offer it to the Public, and with a grateful Sense for all the Favours and Kindness You have at all Times shewn towards me.
I am, my Lord, your Lordship’s most obedient and most obliged humble Servant,
J. H. MÜNTZ.