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sculptor|ˈskʌlptə(r)|
[a. L. sculptor, agent-n. f. sculpĕre to carve, engrave, sculpture. Cf. F. sculpteur, Sp. escultore, Pg. esculptor, It. scultore.]
1. One who practises the art of sculpture; chiefly, an artist who produces works of statuary in stone (esp. marble) or bronze.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 59 A Pegasus: an inuention of the Sculptor, to expresse his workemanship. 1656Blount Glossogr., Sculptor, a graver or carver. 1680Morden Geog. Rect., Modena (1685) 209 Here are many Sculptors both for Ivory and Wood. 1718Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. liii. 78 His sculptors could have made no other figure so proper for that purpose as this statue. 1841W. Spalding Italy II. 231 Jacopo della Quercia, a sculptor whose works are now to be sought in Siena, Lucca, and Bologna. 1893Academy 13 May 413/1 The fronts of the mansion were decorated with statues by skilled sculptors.
†2. An engraver. Obs.
1641Evelyn Diary 24 May, He brought over Wenceslaus Hollar, the sculptor. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 42 Sculptors in their strongest shadows, after this order doe draw their double Haches.
3. Astr. (See quot.)
1852Hind Astron. Vocab. 52 Sculptor, an abbreviation for Apparatus Sculptoris, one of the southern constellations introduced by Lacaille. |