among the Ancient^, 585 



larch,* box-wood, -j- canvafs,J white leather or 

 parchment, II or (fometimes) on marble. § When 

 they employed wood, they laid on in the firft 

 inftance a white ground.^ 



* Larix femlna habet quam Gra»ci vocant ^gida mellei 

 coloris. Inventum eft pidloram tabellis immortale nullif- 

 que fiffile rimis hoc lignum. Plin. XVI. 73. 



f Learners began to draw upon box. Hujus (Pamphlli) 

 auftoritate efFeftum eft Sicyone primum, deinde et in toia 

 Graecia, ut Pueri ingenui ante omnia Graphicen, hoc eft 

 pidturam in Buxo, docerentur ; recipereturque ars ea in 

 primum gradum liberalium. 



J Et noftraa ^tatis Infaniam in pidlura non omittam.. 

 Nero princeps juflerat colofTeum fe pingi CXX. pedum in 

 linteo, incognitum ad hoc tempus. Plin. XXXV. 33. 



O ypaipsui ffKO'TFov fX«y, &c. fcriptor qui hoc fibi proponit 

 pulchre fcribere, is quia charta fjepe tcnoior fit aut fibula, 

 aut quia atramentum minus fit idoneum aberrat a fcopo : 

 fimiliter etiam piftor ea ipfa perpetiatur, vel quia colores 

 aut linteum ((tivS^jv©") in quo pingit minus fit idoneam. 

 Joannes Grammat. in Arift. lib. II. Nat. aufcnitat. Ju- 

 nius, p. 170. 



II Alia multa Graphidis veftigia extant in tabuKs ac 

 memhranis ejus, ex quibus, &c. Plin. XXXV. 35. 



In primis quidem piftorum, et potiffimum quando in 

 albis Coriis pingunt. Galen de ufu partium hum. lib. 

 X. cap. 3. 



§ Among the antiquities of Herculaneum are four pieces 

 on white marble. Winckleraan Hift. de I'Art. torn. II. 

 p. 83. 



(f[ Winckleman Hift. de I'Art. torn. II. p. 109. 



Their 



