Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun He (or she) engraved or carved (it): a word frequently put at the foot of an engraving or the base of a piece of sculpture after the engraver's or sculptor's name: as, A. B. sculpsit. It is often abbreviated to
sc ., and sometimes to sculps., and corresponds to pinxit (pxt.) on paintings.
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Examples
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Doyle wrote this phrase on the blackboard: “Interea niveum mira feliciter arte sculpsit ebur formamque dedit.”
In This Way I Was Saved Brian DeLeeuw 2009
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However, is it quite proper that the maker of a tone process plate should sign it as is done here _Petit sculpsit_?
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On the corner, in small letters, was "E. Hinton, sculpsit."
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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[Footnote 13: On the Brenzoni tomb in the Church of San Fermo: "Quem genuit Russi Florentia Tusca Johañis: istud sculpsit opus ingeniosa manus."] *****
Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905
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W.F. sculpsit_ was engraved on the narrow margin; and there was no further inscription.
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Hoc opus sculpsit Johannes, qui res non egit inanes.
The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) Giorgio Vasari 1542
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George Mountaine, Bishop of London; G.Y. sculpsit;
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Buchanan, facing the right S. ELLIS.S.. (_sculpsit.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 J. F. Loubat
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