The excellency of the pen and pencil
Subtitle: exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by : a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 625:20
Publisher: Printed for Dorman Newman ...
Published: 1688
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Drawing; Study and teaching; Early works to 1800; Art; Technique
Notes: Wing E3779A