DODWELL, EUWAHD, F.S.A. 



DOLLOND, JOHN. 



iu UM title-page of the first rolume of which hi* name appears as ouo 

 of UM compiler*. 



Tliciv is * detailed catalogue of the oonfamU of Dodsworth's cull.-c- 

 tious, now iu the Ikxllui.m Library, in the great catalogue of the 

 Manuscripts of England aud Ireland, folio, Oxon., 1607. 



(Gougb, Brit. Top. voL i., pp. 128 21 ; Chalmens Diog. Diet., \\l xii.. 

 ; anil the Preface to tli list edition of the Mvntuticon.) 



DODWELL. EDWARD, K S.A., was a man of fortune, and WH 

 tducated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He loft the uuiv> rsity in 

 1800, aud from that tiinu till his death in May 1832, he mostly resided 

 abroad, and occupied himself in researches connected with the earlier 

 antiquities of Greece and her colonies. The first results of his inres- 

 tigauons and studies in this field he gave to the world in 1 -1'.', in two 



Suarto volumes entitled 'A Classical aud Topographical Tour through 

 rcece during the years 1301, 1S05, and 1806.' Thii learned and 

 accurate work was followed in 1S21 by a folio volume of 'Views in 

 Greece, from Drawings by Edward Dodwell, Esq.,' containing thirty 

 coloured prints, accompanied by short descriptions in French and 

 Knglinh, from a collection of nearly a thousand drawings which he had 

 made of architecture! objects aud natural scenery. In the summer of 

 1830 Mr. Dodwell brought on a severe illness by fatigue and long 

 exposure to the sun while engaged in seeking for the Mtuation of some 

 ancient cities in tie Sabine Mountains; and from this he never com- 

 pletely recovered. lie left on his death a very large collection of 

 drawings, from which a folio volume of lithographic plates was pub- 

 lished at London iu ISM, under the title of ' Views and Descriptions 

 of Cyclopian or Pclx-gic Remains in Greece and Italy ; with Construc- 

 tions of a later Period, from Drawings by the late Edward Dodwell, 

 Kq., F.S.A., &a, intended as a Supplement to his Classical and Topo- 

 graphical Tour in Greece,' ic. Of the views seventy-one are Grecian, 

 fifty-five Italian. The descriptions by which the plates are accompanied 

 are very bi icf. 



DODWELL, HENRY, was born in Dublin In 1642. His father, 

 who had been in the army, possessed some property in Ireland, but 

 having lost it in the rebellion, he brought over his family to England, 

 and settled at York, in 1648. Young Dodwell was sent to the York 

 Free school, where he remained for five years. In the' meantime both 

 his father and mother had died, and he was reduced to great distress 

 from the want of all pecuniary means, till, iu 1654, he was taken under 

 the protection of a brother of his mother's, at whose expense he was 

 sent, in 1658, to Trinity College, Dublin. There he eventually obtained 

 a fellowship, which however he relinquished in 1666, owing to certain 

 conscientious scruple* against taking holy orders. In 1672, on his 

 r tnm to Ireland, after having resided some years at Oxford, he made 

 his first appearance as an author by a learned preface, with which he 

 introduced to the public a theological tract of the late Dr. Stearn, who 

 hail been his college tutor : it was entitled ' De Obstinntione,' and 

 published at Dublin. Dodwell's next publication was a volume en- 

 titled ' Two Letters of Advice : 1. For the Susoeption of Holy Orders : 

 2. For Studies Theological, especially such as are Rational' It appeared 

 in a second edition in 1681, accompanied with a 'Discourse on the 

 Phoenician History, of Sanchoniathon,' the fragments of which, found 

 in Porphyry and Eusebins, he contends to be spurious. Meanwhile, in 

 K'74, Dodwell bad settled in London, and from this time to his death 

 he led a life of busy authorship. Many of his publications were on 

 the popish and nonconformist controversies ; they have the reputation 

 of showing, like ererything else he wrote, extensive and minute learn- 

 ing, and great skill in the application of his scholarship, but little 

 judgment of a larger kind. Few, if any, of the champions of the 

 Church of England have strained the pretensions of that establishment 

 so far as Dodwell seems to have done; but his whole life attested the 

 perfect conscientiousness and disregard of personal consequences under 

 which he wrote and acted. In 1688 he was elected Camden Professor 

 of History by the University of Oxford, but was deprived of his office, 

 after he hod held it about three years, for refusing to take the oath 

 of allegiance to William and Mary. He then retired to the village of 

 Cookham in Berkshire, and soon after to Shottesbrooke in the same 

 neighbourhood, where he (pent the rest of his days. He possessed, 

 it appears, on estate in Ireland, but he allowed a relation to enjoy 

 the principal part of the rent, only reserving such a moderate main- 

 tenance for himself ni sufficed for his simple and inexpensive habits 

 of life. It U said however that his relation at length began to grumble 

 at the subtraction even of this pittance ; and on that 1 >od well resumed 

 liis property, and married. He took this step in 1694, in his fifty-third 

 year, and he lived to see himself the father of ten children. The 

 works for which he is now chiefly remembered were also all produced 

 in the latter part of his life. Among these are his ' Dissertation* and 

 Annotations on the Greek Geographers,' published in Hudson's ' Geo- 

 graphic Veteris Scriptores Gneci Minoree,' Oxon., 1698, 1703, and 1712 

 his 'Annales Tbucydidei et Xenophontei,' 1698; his ' Chronologia 

 Onsoo-Romana pro Hypothesibus Dion. 1 f nlicarnassci,' 1692; and his 

 Annales Vellciani, Quintilianl, Station!,' 1698. These several chrono- 

 logical essays, which are drawn up with great ability, have all been 

 nprtidb rapt > hntT ; p : v . ,,:. i- msJdMd ., i. 

 his 'De Vettribus Qnecorum Romanorumque Cyclis, Obiterquo de 

 Cyclo JudtDorum oc /Elate ChriUi, Dissertatioues,' 4to, Oxon., 1701. 

 He also published in 8vo., in 1708, ' An F.pistolnry Discourse, proving 

 from the Scriptures and the first Fathers, that the Soul U a principle 



naturally mortal, but immortalised actually by the pleasure of God, to 

 .K-iit or to reward, by its union with the divine baptism*! 

 spirit; whore it is proved that none have the power of ^ivm.; this 

 liviue immortalising spirit since the Apostles, but only the Bishops.' 

 This attempt to make out for the bishop* the new power of conferring 

 mmorUiity raised no small outcry against the writer, and staggered 

 many even of those who had not seen any extravagance in his former 

 [ralernical lucubrations. Of course it gave great offence to the DU- 

 icntera, all of whose souls it unceremoniously shut out from a future 

 existence on any terms. Dodwell died at Shottosbrooke on the 7th uf 

 Jane 1711. Of his sons, the eldest, Henry, who was a ban-liter, pub- 

 lished anonymously in 1742, a tract, which has been generally, but 

 perhaps erroneously, looked upon as a covert attack upon revealed 

 religion, under the title of ' Christianity not founded on Argument ; ' 

 and another, William, who wag iu the church, distinguished In 

 by some pamphlets in the controversy with Dr. Conyers Middleton 

 about miracles ; and also wrote an answer to hU brother's anonymous 

 tract just mentioned. 



DULCI, CARLO, was born at Florence, May 25, 1616. His father 

 Andrew, and his mother's father and brother, 1'ietro and Bartolomco 

 Marinari, were all painters, and much esteemed and respected in their 

 native city. At the ago of four years, Carlo had the uiiafortuuc to 

 lose his father, and his mother was obliged to maintain a numerous 

 family by her industry. At the nge of nine she placed him with 

 Jacopo Vignali, a pupil of Roselli, who was famous for his powers of 

 teaching. In four years Carlo could paint. HU first efforts attracted 

 the notice of Piero de' Medici, an amateur, who procured him the 

 notice of the court, and he was soon busily and profitably employed. 

 In lu.Vl he married Theresa Bucherclli, by whom he had a numerous 

 family. About 1670 he was invited to paint the likeness of Claudia, 

 the daughter of Ferdinand of Austria, at Innspruck, which place ho 

 visited for a short time. After his return he was afflicted with 

 melancholy, and he died on Friday, January 17, 1686, leaving one ton 

 in holy orders, and seven daughters, of whom Airnese, married to 

 Carlo Baci, a silk merchant, painted in the manner of her father. 



Doloi'a biographer, Baldinucci, attributes his excellence in painting 

 to the goodness of Heaven, as a just reward for his singular piety, iu 

 illustration of which numerous anecdotes are told. When invited to 

 take Claudia's portrait, he declined for fear of the length of the 

 journey, never having lost sight of the cathedral dome and cam 

 of his favourite city since his birth ; and his assent was only procured 

 by obtaining the commands of his confessor, which he obeyed at 

 once. In like manner he was recovered from his fint fit of melancholy 

 by the command of his confessor to proceed with a picture of the 

 Virgin. He appears to have been extremely good and amiable, but 

 singularly timid. His last illness is said to have been brought on by 

 a remark which Luca Giordano uttered in joke, according to his 

 intimate friend Baldinucci, that his slowness would never allow him 

 to amass 150,000 dollars as the expeditious Giordano had done, but 

 that he must starve. Upon this, poor Carlo seems to have grown 

 bewildered; fancied that the threatened evil was imminent, and refused 

 food for some time. In the midst of his troubles, his excellent wife 

 died, and death soon released him from his grief. In all his insanity 

 he was never violent, but dejected and helpless, and as obedient as 

 a child to his ghostly advisor. 



From his first attempts at painting, Carlo determined to paint none 

 but sacred subjects, and he almost literally observed this rule. Hi 

 style is pleasing, and full of gentle and tender exprcsions; his 

 drawing for the most part, but not always, correct ; his colouring 

 varied, soft, bright, and harmonious; sometimes too pearly iu its tint. 

 He elaborated all he did with the most consummate patience and 

 delicacy. His pictures are numerous, and found in many collections, 

 for he painted many duplicate s, nnd many copies were made by his 

 pupils Alcssamlro Lomi and IVirtolomeo Mancini, and Agnese, his 

 daughter. Onorio Marinari, his cousin and scholar, gave great promise, 

 but died young. (Baldinucci.) 



DOLLOND, JOHN, .an eminent optician, was descended from a 

 French refugee family, settled in Spitalfields, and born on the 10th of 

 June 1706. His parents were in humble circumstances, his father 

 being on operative silk weaver ; and the son was brought up to the 

 same occupation. The little leisure however which ho bad was spent 

 in the acquisition of a varied circle of knowledge. Besides the study 

 of mathematics and physics, to the latter of which his reputation is 

 chiefly due, he studied anatomy and natural history in general, on the 

 one hand, and theolozy and ecclesiastical history on the other. In 

 furtherance of this diversified class of subjects, which, considering 

 the toil to which the day was devoted, was sufficiently extensive, he 

 undertook the Greek and Roman classics ; he wan partially acquainted 

 with several of the modern languages, but with French, German, and 

 Italian he was intimately conversant Notwithstanding the cares of 

 a family and the duties which it imposed upon him, Dollond still 

 found means to cultivate the sciences ; and having apprenticed his 

 eldest son, Peter, to an optical instrument maker, he wag in due time 

 able to establish him in business in Vine-court, Spitolfield*. In this 

 business he finally joined his son, for the eupccial purpose, it 

 seem, of being able to unite his tastes with his business more perfectly 

 than Bilk-weaving enabled him to do. 



Immediately on this arrangement being completed, Dollond com- 



