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 Oily-Colours. The fourth impression with some alterations and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the Three former Editions. To which is now added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints, with Water Colours. By John Smith, C. M. Licensed, Rob. Midgely.
- Smith, John, active 1673-1680.
- Date:
- 1705
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About this work
Also known as
Art of painting in oil
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Samuel Crouch, at the Corner of Popes-Head-Ally in Cornhill, 1705.
Physical description
[8],108,[4]p ; 80.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T98430
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.