TO THERight HonourableRichard Lord Edgcumbe,Controller of hisMajesty’sHousehold.
TO THE
Right Honourable
Richard Lord Edgcumbe,
Controller of hisMajesty’sHousehold.
MyLord,
I Should be afraid to offer you the following Treatise if I could not flatter myself with the hope that its intrinsicMerit, and the Intention it was writ in, would in your noble and generous Mind counterbalance the Defects and Improprieties of Language, of which, as almost unavoidable to a Foreigner, it must of course be guilty of.
The subject I present you with is known to you long ago; you saw the first Essays and Experiments in Encaustic; You was pleased to approve of them, and to express someSatisfaction at the least Picture executed in this manner. With what greater Advantage could I usher this new Invention into the World, than dedicating it to You; to make it known that theGreatest Patronof Arts, and the best Judge of the Merits of Painting approved of it?—CountCaylusinvented it; under the Sanction of your Lordship’s Name I offer it to the Public, and with a gratefulSense for all the Favours and Kindness You have at all Times shewn towards me.
I am, my Lord,your Lordship’smost obedientand most obligedhumble Servant,
J. H. MÜNTZ.