Encaustic, or Count Caylus's Method of Painting in the Manner of the Ancients - To Which Is Added a Sure and Easy Method for Fixing of Crayons #224634

Concerning an ancient Meibod of Painting. Revived by Count caylus. Ount caylus, a member of the Academy of Infcrip tions, had undertaken to ex plain an obfcure pafiage in pliny the naturalifi. This author (whom I have not now before me) fays in fome place of his works, that the anci ents painted with burnt wax.