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