Antedating of "Panoramic"

[Fred Shapiro]

panoramic (OED3 1804)

1796 Cumberland, George. Thoughts on outline, sculpture, and the system
that guided the ancient artists in composing their figures and groupes
42 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  The first was calculated to
prevent broken masses of shadow, which might hurt the objects, and, in a
clear atmosphere, render them dazzling; the other tended to give them,
when impressed on wax, a panoramic effect, both advantageous to the
engraver, and agreeable to the principles of optics.

Fred Shapiro


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