O meio de se fazer pintor em tres horas
Subtitle: e de executar com o pincel as obras dos maiores mestres, sem se ter aprendido o desenho, traduzido do Francez
Contributors: Burnay, Luís Pisani; Morais, Fernando; Godinho, Avlo-Gélio S.
Publisher: Na Typographia Chalcographica, Typoplatica, e Litteraria do Arco do Cego.
Published: 1801
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Study and teaching; Glass underpainting; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Glass painting and staining; Technique; Painting
Work titles: Moyen de devenir peinture en trois heures
Notes: Attributed to François-Xavier Vispré by the Casa literária do Arco do Cego (1799-1801) bibliography and by Moraes.

Translation of the author's: Le moyen de devenir peinture en trois heures, et d'exécuter au pinceau les ouvrages des plus grands maîtres, sans avoir appris le dessin, first printed in Paris, 1755.

Signatures: pi⁴ (pi1, pi2, pi4 verso blank) A-D⁸ E⁴ (E1, E4 versos blank)

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [1], 3rd count.

Engraved royal arms on title page; head piece.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: p. 900.

Casa literária do Arco do Cego (1799-1801), 49.

Purchase; 2017; 18-271.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in modern mottled calf with marbled boards; original marbled wrappers are present.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Luís Pisani Burnay: bookplate on front pastedown; Fernando Morais: bookplate on verso of first front flyleaf; Avlo-Gélio S. Godinho: bookplate on verso of front original wrapper.