The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness; of Colouring any Print or Drawing in the most Beautiful Manner; and of taking off Medals instantly, by various Ways, never before made publick: Intermix'd with several curious Receipts for the Use of Painters, Statuaries, Founders, &c. With instructions for making transparent colours of every Sort; partly from some Curious Personages in Holland, France and Italy; but chiefly from a Manuscript of the Great Mr. Boyle; particularly a Receipt of that Gentleman's, for making a Blue Colour equal to Ultramarine.
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- MDCCXXXII. [1732]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for J. Peele, at Locke's-Head in Amen-Corner, Pater-Noster Row, MDCCXXXII. [1732]
Physical description
70,[2]p. : ill. ; 80.
Edition
The third edition.
References note
ESTC N16443
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.