The excellency of the pen and pencil : exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by : a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Printed for Dorman Newman ..., 1688.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([16], 123 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations.