The Art of drawing and painting in water-colours. Wherein the principles of drawing are laid down, after a natural and easy manner, and youth directed in every thing that relates to this useful art, according to the practice of the best masters To which are annexed, familiar directions, whereby a stranger in the art of drawing may be readily taught to delineate any view of prospect with the atmost exactness; of colouring any print or drawing in the most elegant manner; and of taking off medals, &c. instantly, after a variety of different ways, never before made public; intermixed with curious receipts for the use of painters, statuaries, founders, &c. with instructions for preparing, mixing, and managing all sorts of water-colours used in painting, so as to represent nature in the greatest perfection
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Dublin
Printed by J. Potts, at No. 74, in Dame-Street
1778, M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]
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| Edition: | A new edition, corrected, and, besides other improvements, illustrated with copper-plates |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | 'The art of drawing and painting', is dated 1778. - English Short Title Catalog, T118983. - In two parts, the second entitled: 'The art of drawing in perspective', with a separate titlepage, dated 1777, but with continuous pagination and register. - Reproduction of original from British Library |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([4],188p.,plates) 12° |