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fC enfuite fur le bois, fuivant l’efquiffe qu’on y avoit 
“ tracee, oil creufee avec un fer chaud ; dans la fe- 
“ conde on gravoit de meme dans l’yvoir, avec un fer 
<c aiguetardant les contours et generalement l’idee de 
£t tout de fujet, apres quoi on appliquot les couleurs 
44 pour les Ombres, en laiffant 1’yvoire pour les jours, 
f£ et perfedtionnant lc tout enfemble par le moyen 
“ du feu, comme on le pratiquoit auffi pour le 
u bois.” 
Now it is very eafy to fee, that Pliny’s words are 
very different from any thing in this tranflation ; and 
that this may be more plain, I here give a clofe 
tranflation of Mr. Durand's words : viz. <c I muff 
14 fhew here what this painting in wax is, which was 
44 finifhed by fire. It muff therefore be remarked, 
44 that in antient times there were of two kinds of 
“ this painting ; in the firft they ufed wax pre- 
“ pared in divers colours, which they then put 
u upon the wood, according to the defign they had 
44 traced out with a hot iron. In the fecond, thcv 
44 engraved in the fame manner upon the ivory, with 
<c a fharp burning iron, the contour, and generally 
a the idea of the whole fubjedt, after which they ap- 
u plied the colours for the ffiades, leaving the ivory 
“ for the lights, and finiflaing the whole by the 
44 means of fire, as they alfo pradtifed it upon 
<{ wood.” 
Monf. Durand has gathered thefe notions from Pere 
Hard, and Boulenger de pi Bur a vet e rum ; which are no 
more applicable to Pliny, than they are practicable in 
themfelves ; Pliny has no fuch meaning, for his 
words are very clear, as I have fhewn it before : but 
he takes the fame liberty in that paffage of the fe- 
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