among the Ancients, ^j^ 



of Alexander the Great, partly perhaps from 

 defign and a preference given to a warm tone, 

 and partly becaufe the other colours were not 

 eafy to be procured in a proper ftate of perfec- 

 tion* till a later period of the art. From that 

 asra a multiplicity of colours were gradually 

 difcovered and introduced, until the ftock was 

 augmented to the degree noticed by Pliny in 

 his enumeration of the pigments employed in 

 his time, f 



That the ancients paid a particular attention 

 to DESIGN would be evident from the manner in 

 which they fpeak of this department of the 

 graphic art, even though the moderns were not 

 in pofleffion of fuch remaining proofs of their 

 excellence herein (though by artifts of an inferior 

 clafs) as to place this point beyond the reach of 

 doubt. 



From the account given by Pliny of the oHgin 

 and prdgrefs of painting:): (an account a priori 

 extremely probable) it appears that the firft 



* It appears from a paflage of Pliny, before quoted, 

 that purple and blue were not difcovered till late in the 

 sera of painting. Nunc et purpuris in parietes migrantibus et 

 India conferente fiuminum /uorum limum ( i. e. blue), &c. 



- t Lib. XXXV. 12, et feq, Pliny XXXV. 40, fays of 

 Pamphilus the painter, Amavit in Juventd Glyceram mupi- 

 lipem fuam, inventricem coronarum, curandoque imitatione ejus ' 

 ^d numexofijjimam florum njarietatem perduxit art em illam. 



X XXXV. Pair. 



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