ESSAYS TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF PAINTING. ESSAYS TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF PAINTING. BY MRS. CALLCOTT. LONDON: EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET. MDCCCXXXVI. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. TO THE MISS WARRENS. MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS, When your excellent Father suggested to me to engage in some little work which should afford constant and steady employment, as the best means of alleviating the wearisomeness of an increasing and incurable disorder, I hoped to have had the benefit of his advice during its progress. It has pleased God that it should be otherwise, and I have had to mourn the premature loss of the most skilful physician and the kindest friend. Yet I have followed his advice as far as my strength has permitted. One portion of the task he prescribed to me is done; and I offer it to _you_ as a token of my gratitude to _him_. Should I live to go on with the second portion of the work, it will, perhaps, be more interesting to you in its nature. This, however, I know you will receive affectionately, when you remember at whose desire it was begun, and think of the regard I have always felt towards yourselves since I have known you. MARIA CALLCOTT. _June 1st, 1836._ CONTENTS. ESSAY I. PAGE. Introduction.--Lectures on Painting.--History of Art displayed by its remains.--Object of the present Essays.--Origin of Art.--First mention of Art in the Book of Genesis.--Egyptian and Chaldean Colonies.--Art among the Chinese.--Hindoo Art.--Egyptian Art.--Second Colonization from Egypt.--Egyptian Arts as practised by the Israelites.--The Ark of the Covenant and the Golden Calf.--Hieroglyphical Writing; its effects upon Art.--Egyptian Painting.--Pigments used by the Egyptians 1 ESSAY II. OF ART IN ANCIENT ITALY.