Miscellaneous Notes on Impressions, States, etc. 53 



The following technical terms (chiefly Latin) occur most frequently 

 in the signatures and lettering on prints : — 



Sculpsit (sculj)., sc), sculptor 

 Caelavit, caelator 

 Incidit {incid., inc.), incisor 

 Fecit {fee, f.) . 

 Fecit aqua foi-ti 

 Excudit {excud., exc.) 

 Formis 

 Divulgavit 

 Impressit {imp.) 



Engraved, engraver. 



Lith. 



I Etched (and occasionally for en- 

 j graved). 



I Printed (used in a general sense by 

 / publisher or printseller). 

 Published. 



Printed (seldom found except in 



MS. on modern etchings). 

 Drew, or printed on stone. Used 

 somewhat promiscuously both 

 for the lithographic draughts- 

 man and the lithographic printer. 

 The lithographic draughtsman is 

 more specifically predicated by 

 del. (see below). 

 . Lithographed by (generally im- 

 plying the lithographic printer). 

 . Painted, painter. 

 . Drew, draughtsman. 



* ^Designed, designer. 



, Drew (generally referring to a 

 drawing made for the engraver, 

 sometimes by the engraver him- 

 self, after a painting to be re- 

 produced). 

 . Implying a privilege to publish, and 

 often a special right, corre- 

 sponding to modern copyright, 

 granted by some political or 

 ecclesiastical authority. 

 to Act of Relating to one of the various Acts 

 of Parliament dealing with the 

 copyright of engravings (from 

 1735 onwards). The English 

 copyright law has never made 

 it necessary to deposit an im- 

 pression of each print (as of 

 each book) in any public in- 

 stitution. 



Depose d la Direction [Generate These and similar inscriptions 

 des Estampes] ; Depose d la refer to the custom in France 

 Bibliotheque [Nationale, etc.]. after the Revolution of depositing 



prints with various State De- 

 partments, but it never became 

 compulsory. 



Lith. by . 



Pinxit {pinx.), pictor . 

 Delineavit {delin.), delineator 

 Invenit {inv.), inventor 

 Composidt 

 Figuravit . 



Cum privilegio 



Published according 

 Parliament. 



In the section devoted to woodcuts we have alluded to impressions 

 from wood-blocks printed on textiles (see p. 13), and occasionally one 



