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The measurer's guide enlarg'd: or, the whole art of measuring made short, plain, and easy. Containing full Directions how to Measure 1. Any Plain Superfices. 2. All Sorts of Solids; with particular Instructions for measuring of Timber, &c. 3. All Sorts of Artificers Work, viz. Carpenters, Joyners, Plaisterers, Painters, Paviors, Glasiers, Bricklayers, Sawyers, Masons, Earthwork. 4. The Art of Gauging: Being of singular Use to Ingineers, Gentlemen, Artificers, and others. The second edition. By John Barker, Ingineer.
Barker, John, writer on fortification.Date: 1718- Books
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Panarithmologia: or, the trader's sure guide. Containing, exact, and useful tables ready cast up, adapted to the use of merchants, Mercers, Bankers, Drapers, Goldsmiths, Grocers, Brewers, Weavers, and Haberdashers. And all that deal by Wholesale or Retale Also, for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Joyners, Glaziers, Plaisterers, Plummers, and Painters. And all other Mechanicks. As also For all Purchasers of Houses or Lands: Shewing the Interest of Money, and Discount on prompt Payment. The fourth edition. By William Leybourn.
Leybourn, William, 1626-1716.Date: 1727- Pictures
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Indian cloth painters. Gouache drawing.
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The perfect painter: or, a compleat history of the original, progress and improvement of painting shewing, I. The Antiquity, Excellency and Usefulness of that Divine Art, to Those who are desirous of being Acquainted with the true Knowledge and Secrets therein contain'd. II. Plain Instructions to form a right Judgment of the real Value of good Pictures, and how to distinguish Originals from Copies. III. A Chronological Account of the most celebrated Painters, from their Rise, to the Present Time.
Bell, Henry, 1647-1711.Date: M.DCC.XXX. [1730]- Books
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Elements of natural philosophy. By George Miller, D. D. Fellow Of Trinity College, Dublin, And M. R. I. A.
Miller, George, 1764-1848.Date: 1799- Books
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An historical and chronological list of the painters.
Date: [1740?]- Archives and manuscripts
"Artists, painters and printers"
Date: 1993-2003Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/25Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Books
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Biographical memoirs of extraordinary painters.
Beckford, William, 1760-1844.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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Hygiene of the painters' trade.
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970.Date: 1913- Books
The dictionary of Victorian painters / Christopher Wood ; research by Christopher Newall.
Wood, Christopher, 1957-Date: 1978- Books
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The standard rules of the round and round-text-hands: mathematically demonstrating how better alphabets of those hands may be performed than has ever yet been published in Great-Britain. Absolutely Necessary to be known by all Writing-Masters and others who would gain a Perfect Knowledge of those Hands; and very Useful for Engravers, Painters, Masons, &c. who may have Occasion to Draw Large Inscriptions. Invented by Charles Snell, Writing-Master and Accomptant, at the Free Writing-School in Foster-Lane. With whom Young Gentlemen may Board.
Snell, Charles, 1667-1733.Date: 1717- Books
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Genuine receipt for making the famous vernis Martin; or, as it is called by the English, Martin's copal varnish : With six other rich Varnishes, made and used here by the Painters at the Palais-Royale. Viz. 1. The famous copal oil varnish. 2. Amber Varnish. 3, Gold Lacker Varnish. 4. The Gold Varnish for Pictures. 5. A Varnish for Brass. 6. A Varnish for Gold. 7. A Varnish for Silver. 8. L'Avanturine, -- or rich Speckle. With the Method of laying them on, and Polishing them in the highest Taste at Paris.
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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A continuation, of a most curious, scarce, valuable, and fine collection of all those persons who, from one Circumstance in their Lives, are entitled to a Place in the English School; in which will be found, Princes who have visited this Country, Ambassadors from all Parts of the World, Knights of the Garter, Eminent Learned Men who have visited our Universities. Fellows of the Royal Society, Variety of Artists, such as Painters; musicians, mechanics, &c. Also All curious Persons that have been publickly shewn here, as dwarfs, giants, &c. &c.
Greenwood, John, 1727-1792.Date: 1786]- Books
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The standard rules of the round and round-text-hands: mathematically demonstrating how better alphabets of those hands may be performed than have ever yet been publish'd in Great-Britain. Absolutely Necessary to be known by all Writing-Masters and others who would gain a Perfect Knowledge of those Hands; and very useful for Engravers, Painters, Masons, &c. who may have Occasion to Draw Large Inscriptions. Invented by Charles Snell, Writing-Master and Accomptant at the Free Writing-School in Foster-Lane, With whom Young Gentlemen may Board.
Snell, Charles, 1667-1733.Date: 1728- Books
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Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.Date: 1899- Books
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Subjects for painters. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Subjects for painters. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Subjects for painters. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX, [1789]- Books
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Subjects for painters. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A biographical and critical dictionary of recent and living painters and engravers / by Henry Ottley.
Ottley, Henry, 1811-1878.Date: 1875- Books
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Mathematicks made plain, In the Solution of Variety Of Useful Propositions in Arithmetick. Interest, Simple and Compound. Geometry. Surveying. Gauging. Measuring all Artificers Works. Trigonometry, Plain and Spherical. Astronomy. Geography. Navigation. Dialling. Chronology. Dioptricks. Staticks. Gunnery. Military Fortification. Civil and Naval Architecture. Mechanick Powers. Automaticks, or Clock-Work, &c. All Perform'd by that Excellent Line of Numbers, commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Being A necessary Companion for Gentlemen, Military Officers, Engineers, Architects, Seamen, Surveyors, Usurers, Shopkeepers of all sorts; Artificers, as Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Shipwrights, Watch-Makers, Glaziers, Painters, Plaisterers, &c. By Richard Neve, Philomath. Approv'd of by the Royal Society.
Neve, Richard.Date: 1708- Books
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The concise practical measurer: or, a plain guide to gentlemen and builders. Describing the certain true methods of measuring and computing the value of the several performances of bricklayers, carpenters, Joyners, Plaisterers, Masons, Painters, Plumbers, Glaziers, and Paviors. The Growth, Nature and Use of Timber, viz. Of the Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, Walnut-Tree, Poplar, Alder-Tree, Fir, Norway-Oak, Horn-Beam, Lime, Box, Hazell, and Maple. Also, The Form of a Bricklayer's and Carpenter's Bill of Measurement; the Manner of Digging Foundations, and the Method of Valuing Ground and Houses. The second edition. By Tho. Miles, Surveyor.
Miles, Tho. (Thomas).Date: [1740]- Books
Saint Luke : the patron saint of the Worshipful company of painters otherwise painter-stainers / by Walter Hayward Pitman.
Pitman, Walter Hayward.Date: 1889- Books
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An illustrative supplement to Pilkington's Dictionary of painters ... principally taken from the Anecdotes of painting, etc / by Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. Consisting of biographical sketches, and 139 portraits.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.Date: 1805- Archives and manuscripts
Register of painters employed at Langley Court, Beckenham
Date: 1926-1961Reference: WF/WPRL/12Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd