66 Prevention oJForgenj. 



No. III. 



London, 6th July 1797- 



We whose names are hereunto subscribed, not liaving been at 

 the Bank to witness the comparison there made on the 4th inst, 

 between Mr. Terry's Imitation and Mr. Alexander Tilloch's 

 Specimen of an Art invented by him to prevent Forgery, and not 

 having seen tlie wood-cut Imitation, can say nothing respecting 

 it ; but we have examined the copper-plate Imitation then pro- 

 duced by Mr. Terry, and we hereby declare, that we perfectly, 

 agree in opinion with the Gentlemen who have signed the pre- 

 ceding Declaration of this date respecting the merits of Mr. Til- 

 loch's Invention — the security that its adoption would afford to. 

 the Public, and the great difference between his Specimen and. 

 the Copy produced by Mr. Terry. And we further declare, that, 

 we give this testimony from the same motives that influenced the 

 Artists who signed the preceding Declaration. 



Francis Bartolozzi. 

 James Basire. 

 Mariano Bovi. 

 William Skelton-. 



Robert Dunkarton. 

 John Anderson. 

 Thomas Holloway. 

 J. R. Smith. 



No. IV. 



London, 6th July 1 797. 

 I beg leave to re-assert my opinion, that Mr. Tilloch's Speci- 

 men of an Art invented by him, is, to the utmost of my belief, 

 not copyal)le by any known art of engraving; and to add, that 

 the foundation of this opinion, in truth, is rather proved than 

 contradicted by the attempt Mr. Terry has made to produce an 

 Imitation. Mr. Terry's Imitation, besides that it posseses no 

 correct resemblance of its original, is radically different in the 

 manner of its production, being evidently printed from engraved 

 lines or incisions, and by means of the rolling-press ; whereas 

 Mr. Tilloch's Work is as evidently produced from the surface of 

 his plate or block, and by means of the letter-press, or some 

 such instrument. It is moreover, according to my perceptions, 

 an obvious fact, that Mr. Terry's Imitation is so much unlike 

 the original in most of its particulars, that I find it difficult to 

 suppose that Forgeries thus executed could impose on any one ; 

 and when I go fi'rther, and imagine Bank Notes executed by 

 means of Mr. Tilloch's Art, and the public eye accustomed there- 

 to, the difficulty is increased to a degree so considerable, that 

 Mr. Terry himself will hardly affirm, that in such a case persons 

 of ordinary discernment would be liable to mistake the one for 

 the other. On this point I the rather dwell, as few persons will be 

 found who caiuiot distinguish a counterfeit halfpenny from one 

 coined at the Tower, or a brass counter, bearing the king's like- 

 ness, from a guinea; both of which are resemblances that ap- 

 proach 



