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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.
