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Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677

Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry

1675

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Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry /, The second edition, corrected and enlarged by the author, London : Printed for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against Ivie Bridge, and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn near S. Andrew's Church, 1675, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
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  • Title(s)

    Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added 31 copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

  • Edition

    The second edition, corrected and enlarged by the author.

  • Published/Created

    London : Printed for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against Ivie Bridge, and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn near S. Andrew's Church, 1675.

  • Physical Description

    [8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    N7430 B76 1675+ Oversize
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Public Domain

  • Full Alma Record

    https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/995826773408651

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    Most of the plates engraved by A. de Jode, copied (?) chiefly from A. Bloemaert's Oorspronkelyk en vermaar konstryk tekenboek.
    Portrait of the author engraved by A. de Jode after J. Huysmans.
    Inserted between "Contents (p. [112]) and plates is An appendix to the art of painting in miniature or limning ... never published before, by A. Browne. London: Prointed for Arthur Tooker ... and William Battersby ..., 1675.
    "A catalogue of plates ... sold by Arthur Tooker" : [1] p. at end.
    Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5098
    Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), B5096B

  • Subject Terms

    Battersby, William -- Publisher. |
    Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
    Drawing -- Technique. |
    Etching -- Technique. |
    Painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
    Painting -- Technique. |
    Tooker, Arthur -- Publisher. |
    Watercolor painting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. |
    Watercolor painting -- Technique.

  • Form/Genre

    Drawing books. | Engravings -- 1675. | Handbooks and manuals.

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