The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours The whole Treatise being so full Compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all Persons whatsoever, may be able by these Directions, to Paint in Oyl Colours all manner of Timber-Work; that require either Use, Beauty, or Preservation, from the violence or Injury of the Weather. In which is also laid down all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Shash-Windows, &c. In Oyl-Colours. The fifth impression with some alterations, and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the former Editions. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints, with Water-Colours. By John Smith, C. M.

  • Smith, John, active 1673-1680.
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1723
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Art of painting in oil

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London : printed for A. Bettesworth, in Pater-Noster-Row; F. Clay, without Temple-Bar; and E. Syman [sic], in Cornhill, 1723.

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[8],108,[4]p. ; 120.

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ESTC T228403

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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