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The principles of painting, under the heads of anatomy attitude accident Architecture Composition Claro-Obscuro Contrast Colouring Design Disposition Draperies Expression Harmony History Invention Landskip Lights Proportion Passion Portraiture Sculpture Style Truth Unity, &c. In which is contained, An account of the Athenian, Roman, Venetian and Flemish schools. To which is added, The balance of painters. Being The Names of the most noted Painters, and their Degrees of Perfection in the Four principal Parts of their Art: Of singular Use to those who would form an Idea of the Value of Paintings and Pictures. Written originally in French by Mons. du Piles, Author of The Lives of the Painters. And now first translated into English. By a painter.
Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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An abstract of several clauses in an act of Parliament passed in the twelfth year of King George the Second, intituled, An act for taking off the duties upon woollen and bay yarn imported from Ireland to England, and for the more effectual preventing the Exportation of Wooll from Great Britain, and of Wooll, and Wooll manufactured, from Ireland to foreign Parts, so far as the same relate to the Exportation of Wooll, Woollen or Bay Yarn, Wooll-Sells, Shortings, Mortlings, Wooll-Flocks, Worsted Yarn, from Great Britain to foreign Parts, and of the said Goods, as also Cloth, Serge, Bays, Kerseys, Says, Frizes, Druggets, Cloth-Serges, Shalloons, Stuffs, and other Draperies, and Woollen Manufactures, or mixed with Wooll, or Wooll-Flocks, from Ireland, to foreign Parts (except certain Ports in England.),
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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The art of painting in miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By Rules so easy, and in a Method so natural as to render this charming Accomplishment universally attainable. Containing I. The Difference between Painting in Miniature, and other Kinds of Painting. II. The Management of Colours in Draperies, Linnen, Lace, Furs, &c. III. The Method of mixing Colours for Carnations; for Painting of Architecture, or any Building of Stone or Wood; for Landskips, Terrasses, Water, Ruins, Rocks, &c. IV. The Art of Painting all Sorts of Flowers, with the proper Colours required to represent Nature to the highest Perfection. V. The various Methods of Painting. Translated from the original French. The sixth edition. To which are now added I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest Colours, Burnished Gold, Shell Gold, &c. II. Some general Instructive Lessons for the Art of Drawing. And III. The Usefulness and Benefit of Prints.
Boutet, Claude.Date: 1752- Books
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The art of painting in miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By Rules so easy, and in a Method so natural as to render this charming Accomplishment universally attainable. Containing, I. The Difference between Painting in Miniature, and other Kinds of Painting. II. The Management of Colours in Draperies, Linnen, Lace, Furts, &c. III. The Method of mixing Colours for Carnations; for painting of Architecture, or any Building of Stone or Wood; for Landskips, Terrasses, Water, Ruins, Rocks, &c. IV. The Art of Painting all Sorts of Flowers, with the proper Colours required to represent Nature to the highest Perfection. V. The various Methods of Painting. Translated from the original French. The fifth edition. To which are now added, I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest Colours, Burnished Gold, Shell Gold, &c. II. Some general instructive Lessons for the Art of Drawing. And III. The Usefulness and Benefit of Prints.
Boutet, Claude.Date: 1750- Books
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The art of painting in miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By Rules so easy, and in a Method so natural as to render this charming Accomplishment universally attainable. Containing I. The Difference between Painting in Miniature, and other Kinds of Painting. II. The Management of Colours in Draperies, Linnen, Lace, Furrs, &c. III. The Method of mixing Colours for Carnations; for painting of Architecture, or any Building of Stone or Wood; for Landskips, Terrasses, Water, Ruins, Rocks, &c. IV. The Art of Painting all Sorts of Flowers, with the proper Colours required to represent Nature to the highest Perfection. V. The various Methods of Painting. Translated from the original French The fourth edition. To which are now added, I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest Colours, Burnished Gold, Shell Gold, &c. II. Some general instructive Lessons for the Art of Drawing. And III. The Usefulness and Benefit of Prints.
Boutet, Claude.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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A catalogue of that capital collection of pictures, of Edward Ravenell, Esq; Deceased; Formed by Sir Peter Killegrew in the Reign of Charles I. Consisting of the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Poussin, Ostade, Wouvermans, Carlo Dolci, Barroccio, Wynants, Deneef, S. Rosa Tintoret, Vanderveldt, Zuchero, Titian, &c. In this Collection there are also a most beautiful Picture of a Dutch Fair, by Wouvermans; an original Portrait of Thomas Killegrew, the Jester, by Vandyck; a Sea View by Vanderveldt; Venus and Adonis, by Netscher; and two elegant Porphyry Busts with Jasper Draperies, on beautiful variegated Pedestals. Which (by Order of the Executor,) Will be sold by auction, By Mess. Langford, At their House in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, On Saturday the 24th of this Instant February 1776. The said Collection may be viewed on Thursday the 22d, and till the Time of Sale, which will begin punctually at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues of which may be had gratis on the Days of viewing, at Mess. Langford's aforesaid. Conditions of Sale as usual.
Mr. Langford and Son.Date: 1776]- Books
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A catalogue of that much esteemed and truly valuable museum of the Marquis Lenori, of Pesaro; consisting of A great Number of curious Intaglios and Cameos, in a Variety of most beautiful and scarce Gems, many of which are Greek Workmanship, and richly mounted in Gold; so fine a Collection it may be presumed has rarely if ever been submitted to public Sale. Vases, Cups, &c. of oriental Agate, Bronzes in Groupes, Figures, Busts, &c. of the earliest and of the later Times; amongst these are eight large Figures on Pedestals of Bronze highly ornamented, the most capital Performance of that celebrated Artist, Sansovino. Roman Earthenware in great Preservation, painted from Designs after Raphael, and other great Masters. Carvings in Marble, Ivory, &c. The Labours of Hercules nobly composed and elaborately cut in Wood, a Work of great Antiquity. The twelve Caesars in large Cameos, the Heads of Agate, the Draperies in variegated Marble. An extraordinary Assortment of upwards of a Thousand Specimens of valuable Stones neatly ranged, and particularized in fifteen Drawers, Arabic Manuscripts, with other scarce and curious Articles, many of which have been purchased at a great Expence out of the first Collections in Europe. Which will be sold by Auction, By Mr. Christie, At his Great Room, next Cumberland House, in Pall Mall, On Monday, January 27, 1772, and three following Days, To be viewed on Tuesday the 21st and till the Sale. Catalogues may be had as above.
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803.Date: 1772]- Books
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Price list of chemical apparatus sold by Bewley & Draper, Limited, importers of German & Bohemian glass apparatus, 23 Mary Street, Dublin.
Bewley & Draper, Limited.Date: [1890?]- Books
A monograph on albinism in man / by Karl Pearson, E. Nettleship, and C.H. Usher.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.Date: 1911-- Books
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Dissertatio medica de foetu lapidefacto; in qua ejusdem in utero generatio, in abdomen irreptio, ultra viginti annos retentio, ac lapidescentia, aliaque huc spectantia, per circumstantias, & causas explicantur & confirmantur ... / [Henr. Eyssonius].
Eyssonius, Henr. (Henricus), 1620-1690.Date: 1661- Books
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Collegii anatomici disputatio prima [-septima] / [Henr. Eyssonius].
Eyssonius, Henr. (Henricus), 1620-1690Date: 1662- Books
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Détails authentiques, relatifs à la tenue des etats-généraux; en 1614, au commencement de la majorité de Louis XIII, tirés du mercure François & de l'intrigue du cabinet. Les etats-généraux de 1614 sont les derniers qui aient été tenus en France. Ils paroissent devoir, dans les circonstances actuelles, fixer plus particuliérement que les autres assemblées de ce genre, l'attention & la curiosité des citoyens de chaque ordre. On verra, sans douce, avec quelqu'intérét, les noms & qualités de tous les députés dont ils furent composés; le cérémonial qu'on observa à leur ouverture, les ... qui y furent discutés, & le résultae ... stions qu'ils occasionnérent. C'est là le ... qu'on s'est proposé de mettre sous le jeux des lecteurs.
Date: 1788- Journals
An astronomical diary, or, Almanack / by Nathaniel Ames.
Ames, Nathaniel, 1708-1764.Date: 1726-1775- Books
Foetus Mussipontani, extra uterum in abdomine geniti, secundinae detectae: quibus multa naturae admiranda & abstrusa in lucem eruuntur. Accessit historia partus infelicis: quo gemellorum ex utero in abdominis cavum elapsorum, ossa sensim, multis annis post, per abdomen ipsum in lucem prodierunt / [Anton Deusing].
Deusing, Anton, 1612-1666Date: 1662- Books
Dissertatio medica de foetu lapidefacto; in qua ejusdem in utero generatio, in abdomen irreptio, ultra viginti annos retentio, ac lapidescentia, aliaque huc spectantia, per circumstantias, & causas explicantur & confirmantur ... / [Henr. Eyssonius].
Eyssonius, Henr. (Henricus), 1620-1690Date: 1661- Journals
The Massachusetts gazette: and the Boston weekly news-letter.
Date: 1769-1776- Books
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A statistical study of oral temperatures in school children with special reference to parental, environmental and class differences / by M.H. Williams and Karl Pearson.
Williams, Mary Hamilton.Date: 1914- Books
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A second study of the statistics of pulmonary tuberculosis : marital infection / by the late Ernest G. Pope ; edited and revised by Karl Pearson ; with an appendix on assortative mating from data reduced by Ethel M. Elderton.
Pope, Ernest G.Date: 1908- Books
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A first study of the statistics of pulmonary tuberculosis / by Karl Pearson.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.Date: 1907- Books
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I [blank] do acknowledge to have voluntarily inlisted myself as a private soldier ...
Massachusetts. Militia.Date: 1755]- Books
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Illustrissimo ac sublimi virtute, optimaque eruditione, ornatissimo viro Gulielmo Shirley ... Theses hasce ... Collegio Harvardino ... Habita in comitiis academicis Cantabrigiæ Nov-Anglorum, nonis quintilibus, anno MDCCXLII.
Harvard College (1636-1780)Date: 1742]- Books
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Acts and laws passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, begun and held Boston [sic], upon Wednesday the thirtieth day of May 1733, and continued by several adjournments unto Wednesday the tenth day of April following.
Massachusetts.Date: 1734]- Books
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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, ss. William Foye, Esq; treasurer and receiver general of His Majesty's said province, To [blank] constable or collector of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. By virtue of an act ... These are in His Majesty's name to will and require you t collect all and every the sums of money mentioned ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the twelfth day of November 1739. ...
Massachusetts. Treasury Department.Date: 1739]- Books
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Acts and laws passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the twenty-ninth day of May 1734.
Massachusetts.Date: 1734]- Books
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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, ss. William Foye, Esq; treasurer & receiver-general of His Majesty's said province, To [blank] constable or collector of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. By virtue of an act ... These are in His Majesty's name to will and require you to collect all and every the sums of money mentioned ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the sixth day of November, 1745. ...
Massachusetts. Treasury Department.Date: 1745]