among the Ancients. 595 



Thefe (ketches and outlines were executed 

 upon dreffed Ikins (coriis et membranis — probably 

 a kind of parchment) and alfo upon wood, par- 

 ticularly box wood, upon which fcholars were 

 taught in the firft inftance. Et hujus (Pamphili) 

 auStoriiaie effeElum eji Sky one primum, deinde in iot& 

 Gracia ut pueri ingenui ante omnia graphicen, hoc eft 

 pi£iuram in buxo, docerentur; recipereturque ars ea 

 in primum gradum liberalium. Semper qiiidem honos 

 eifuit ut ingenui exercerent, mox ut honefii: perpetm 

 interdi£io ne Servitia docerentur.* Hence it appears 

 that drawing was confidered in Greece as an in- 

 difpenfible part of the education of youth in 

 «very family of refpeftable fituation. A circum- 

 ftance of itfelf fufficient to confer a decided 

 fuperiority upon the country which thus encou- 

 raged it. 



From hence perhaps we may alfo account for 

 fo many female artifts being celebrated among 

 the ancients. Pliny mentions feven, in his enu- 

 meration of eminent painters. ■}• The hiftory of 

 the art in modern times will add but few to 

 the names of Maria Cofway and Angelica 

 Kauffman. 



Among the modern painters of eminence, we 

 hardly know of any except Michael Angelo who 

 have cultivated the filler arts of modelling and 

 fculpturc. Among the ancients, it feems to have 



• Ph'ny XXXV. 35. f XXXV. 40. 



Q^q 2 been 



