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<p>|14| [<hi rend="underline">Portrait</hi> ... <hi rend="underline">of the Auditor —] from an engraving <lb/>on Copper.</hi>]</p> | <p>|14| [<hi rend="underline">Portrait</hi> ... <hi rend="underline">of the Auditor —] from an engraving <lb/>on Copper.</hi>]</p> | ||
<p>The use of this Portrait is to serve as a security<lb/> against Forgery. [As far as it goes it promises to be <lb/>superior to any other that either is or can be <sic>employ'd</sic>] <lb/><del>of all the subjects capable of employing </del> <lb/><del>In</del> <add>Within</add> the whole domain of the imitative arts, there is not <lb/>any other subject so difficult to imitate with success, and <lb/><del>of which a copy is so easy to distinguish for</del> <lb/><add>in the instance of which, a copy is so easily distinguished from</add><lb/> the original, <add>even by an unskilful eye,</add> as an engraved <del>portraiture</del> <add>figure</add> of the human <lb/>countenance as exemplified in the portrait of a real <lb/>person, executed by an artist of the first rate.</p> | |||
Notes 29 1 Annuity Notes ch. Ten
|14| [Portrait ... of the Auditor —] from an engraving
on Copper.]
The use of this Portrait is to serve as a security
against Forgery. [As far as it goes it promises to be
superior to any other that either is or can be employ'd]
of all the subjects capable of employing
In Within the whole domain of the imitative arts, there is not
any other subject so difficult to imitate with success, and
of which a copy is so easy to distinguish for
in the instance of which, a copy is so easily distinguished from
the original, even by an unskilful eye, as an engraved portraiture figure of the human
countenance as exemplified in the portrait of a real
person, executed by an artist of the first rate.
