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Del. Delaware; Delegate. del., delt., delineavit='He drew it,' put after the draftsman's name on an engraving. demon.

He drew portraits of her—they are extant still—with straight noses and enormous eyes, and "Arthur Pendennis delineavit et pinxit" gallantly written underneath.

Inscription, bottom: “Ill:mæ atq; Excell:mæ D:næ D:næ / Paulinæ Contarenæ / Nob: Venetæ, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore claræ, sed Virtutum nobilitate longe clariori, piissimum / hoc Christianæ Fidei monumentum, exiguum obsequentissimæ servitutis suæ signum, quod ex pictura / Jacobi de Ponte delineavit, et exſculpsit, generossimæ Patronæ, et Auspici dedicabat J: B: Jackson.”

Opus hoc admiratione sane dignum, cunctorumq; approbatione / commendatum, ac Sacrarii Confratrum Caritatis Venetiarum / potiſſimum ornamentum, a Titiano Viccellio Cadorensi, / Viro pingendi arte præ cæteris celeberrimo, coloribus quam / fieri potest ad naturale expressum, adumbratumq; pro viribus / exscribere studens J: B: Jackson delineavit, excudit, et exſculpsit.

Another, and often more puzzling uncertainty, may arise out of the practice of adding to the ordinary letters of the name, the initials F, P, D, or I—representing fecit, pinxit, delineavit, or invenit.