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Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming : in seven books : exemplified in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys and figures of various forms, the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments, the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities, the paintings of the antients ... : never published till now, together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting, and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy,: to which is added, I, the one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English, II, an abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies / by William Salmon.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713Date: 1685- Books
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[The] practice of painting made easy: In which is contained, the art of painting oil, with the method of colouring, under the heads of first painting, or dead-colouring;-second painting;-third or last painting;-painting back-grounds;-on copying;-drapery, and landscape painting. By T. Bardwell, painter.
Bardwell, Thomas, 1704-1767.Date: M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The handmaid to the arts, ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Dossie, Robert, -1777.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Elements of painting with crayons. By John Russell.
Russell, John, 1745-1806.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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Arts improvement: or, choice experiments and observations in building, husbandry, gardening, Mechanicks, Chymistry, Painting, Japanning, Varnishing, Gilding, Inlaying, Embossing, Carving, preserving several things in their natural shape and colour. And in other arts and sciences Profitable and Pleasant. Extracted from the most celebrated authors in several Languages, Manuscripts, Experiments communicated by several Ingenious Gentlemen, and the Author's own Experience. By the author of The builders dictionary.
Neve, Richard.Date: M.DCC.XXIII. [1723]