Practical hints on light and shade in painting
Subtitle: illustrated by examples from the Italian, Flemish, and Dutch schools
By: by John Burnet
Contributors: Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669; Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667; Titian, approximately 1488-1576; Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675; Correggio, 1489?-1534; Nolpe, Pieter, 1601-; Cuyp, Aelbert, 1620-1691; Potter, Paulus, 1625-1654; Velde, Adriaen van de, 1636-1672; Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682; Ostade, Isack van, 1621-1649; Hondecoeter, Gijsbert de, 1604-1653; Wouverman, Philips, 1619-1668; Teniers, David, 1610-1690; Hals, Frans, 1584-1666
Edition: 5th ed.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: J. Carpenter
Published: 1838
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 45
Subjects: Painting; Shades and shadows in art; Perspective
Notes: Printer from colophon.

Also issued as pt. 2 of "A practical treatise on painting"; in collective issues from 1837, called "Practical hints on painting" and later "A treatise on painting", it forms pt. 3. This collection, over time, consisted of various separately printed editions of the component works, bound together.

Illustrations engraved by Burnet after Rembrandt, Van Dyck ("Vandyke"), Metsu ("Metzu"), Titian, G. Dou ("Dow"), Correggio ("Corregio"), P. Nolpe, Cuyp, P. Potter, A. van de Velde ("Vandivelde"), Claude, I. Ostade ("J. Ostade"), Gijsbert de Hondecoeter ("Hondekooter"), Wouverman ("Wouvermans"), Teniers, and Frans Hals ("Frank Hals").

Publisher's advertisement for "Practical hints on painting", consisting of An essay on the education of the eye, On composition (5th ed.), On light and shade (5th ed.), and On colour (4th ed.), as well as a portrait of Burnet "of a size to be inserted in the work": p. [47], with miscellaneous books listed on p. [48].

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.