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Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Title(s):
Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...
Edition:
The second edition, corrected and enlarged by the author.
Published/Created:
London : Printed for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against Ivie Bridge, and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn near S. Andrew's Church, 1675.
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7430 B76 1675+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Most of the plates engraved by A. de Jode, copied (?) chiefly from A. Bloemaert's Oorspronkelyk en vermaar konstryk tekenboek.
Portrait of the author engraved by A. de Jode after J. Huysmans.
Inserted between "Contents (p. [112]) and plates is An appendix to the art of painting in miniature or limning ... never published before, by A. Browne. London: Prointed for Arthur Tooker ... and William Battersby ..., 1675.
"A catalogue of plates ... sold by Arthur Tooker" : [1] p. at end.
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5098
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5096B
Subject Terms:
Battersby, William -- Publisher.
Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Drawing -- Technique.
Etching -- Technique.
Painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Painting -- Technique.
Tooker, Arthur -- Publisher.
Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Watercolor painting -- Technique.
Form/Genre:
Drawing books.
Handbooks and manuals.
Engravings -- 1675.
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