Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . al. Thisspecies of design was known among the ancients,and Wius by them carried to a high degree of per-fection, as the monochromes on vasesamply testify ; but the name silhouette is quitenuxlern, dating from aliout the middle of the 18thcentury, though the art itself seems to have beenpractised iu England prior to 1745. It was taken from E tie lined e Silhouette(1709-07), theFrench ministerof tinancefor fourmonths in 17,59,who, to replenishthe treasury. e.\-hansted by thecostly >vars withBritain and Prus-sia, and l)y
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . al. Thisspecies of design was known among the ancients,and Wius by them carried to a high degree of per-fection, as the monochromes on vasesamply testify ; but the name silhouette is quitenuxlern, dating from aliout the middle of the 18thcentury, though the art itself seems to have beenpractised iu England prior to 1745. It was taken from E tie lined e Silhouette(1709-07), theFrench ministerof tinancefor fourmonths in 17,59,who, to replenishthe treasury. e.\-hansted by thecostly >vars withBritain and Prus-sia, and l)y ex-cessive prodigal-ities, inaugur-ated numerousreforms and thestrictest econ-omy of expendi-ture. His earli-est reforms wereadmirable ; hislater ones, liow-e\er, were socapricious, short-sighted, and thathe fell utterly from favour, and his name becamea byword for injudicio\is parsimony ; any modeor i;u-hi()n that \\a^ iilain and rbiap was styledd /« Silhuiiitic: and ]>roliles made by tracingthe shallow projected by the light of a candle. Silhouette of Robert Bums. on a sheet of white paper, the rest of the figurebeing filled up in black, have contintied tobear the name. Although without merit as awork of art, the silhouette presents a clear andwell-marked luolile, and the Pantagraph ()used to be frequently emjiloycd to obtain profilesof a reduced size direct from the human cut out of black with . alsoleceive the name of silhouettes ; ami akin the silhouette illustrations to JuksI, A Mul-Slimmer Nights Dream, &c., by the Prussian PaulKonewka (1840-71), or those to our own articleHorse in \o\. V. p. 794. It should be addedthat Little derives the use of the word otherwise:quoting from the Journal OJfiriel of 1S09 a state-ment that one of M. de Silhouettes chief amuse-ments after his fall wjis making such shadow-portraits, ami that his chateau of Bry-sur-Marnehad the walls of several of its rooms adorned withp
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