The excellency of the pen and pencil, 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 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 here inserted for examples for the learner to practice by. A work very useful for all gentlemen and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Ratcliffe ("printed by")

Imprint

London: printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, and are to be sold at their shops in Little Britain, near the Lame Hospital Gate, at the Chyrurgeons Arms, and at the Golden Lyon, 1668.

Publication year

1668-1668

ESTC No.

R22483

Grub Street ID

98298

Description

[16], 48, 45-121, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 4⁰

Note

With additional engraved title page (plate).Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), E3779