ving that for the fubjed of the fubfequent part of 

 this effay. It only remains now to notice fome 

 other m'lfcellaneous particulars not immediately 

 reducible to the general divifions already dif- 

 cufled. 



The honourable rank affigned by the ancients 

 to the art of painting, and the numerous authors 

 among them on the fubjed, I have already no- 

 ticed. 



The ancients not only had connoijfeurs in the 

 art of painting among thofe who were not pain- 

 ters by profeflion, as is evident from the whole 

 tenor of Pliny's language, in particular, as well 

 as from the other quotations herein adduced; but 

 they appear alfo to have been fenfible of the 

 value of the firft thoughts of their eminent pain- 

 ters, and like us to have treafured upjiudies, the 

 rough draughts, fketches and unfinifhed perform- 

 ances of their great artifts. ^^lia midta graphidis 

 vejligia (fays Pliny fpeaking of Parrhafius) extant 

 in tabulis et m^mbranis ejus ex quibus -proficere diamtur 

 Artifices.''^ And again, Illud verb perquam varum et 

 memorid dignum etiam Juprema opera artificumy imper- 

 fe5fas tabulasy ftcut Jrin Arijiidisy TyndaridaSy Nico- 

 raachiy Medeam 'Timomachiy et quam diximus venerem 

 Apellis in majori admtrattone ejfe quam perfe5lay ^ip-pc 

 in lis lineamenta reliquay ipfaque cogitationes artificum 

 JpeSlantuVy atque in lenocinio commendationis dolor eji 

 manus cum id agerent extin^£ defiderantur.-\ 



* XXXV. 35. t XXXY. 40, 



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