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1. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...

The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colovrs, more exactlie then heretofore tavght and enlarged: with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. ... By H. Pecham ...
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
1607
Physical Description:
4, 70 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints, or, The young-man's time well spent ...
Date:
1647
Physical Description:
[3], 18 [i.e. 33] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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 ...

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 ...
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1675
Physical Description:
[8], 110, [2], [4], 39, [2] p., [31] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. 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 ... Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

No cover image available
Date:
1668
Physical Description:
8 p.., 121 p. ill., fold. plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Ars pictoria; or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching. To which are added thirty copper plates expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symetry. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Neanderthal authors. By Alexander Browne ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Browne, Alexander, active 1660–1677
Date:
1669
Physical Description:
4 p.l., 110, [2] p. front. (port.) plates. 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Albert Durer revived, or, A book of drawing, limning, washing, or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers : with directions how to lay and paint pictures upon glass, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
[1698]
Physical Description:
[3], 21 [i.e. 40] p. : ill., port. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Art's masterpiece. Or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex. Containing, I. The arr [!] of limning and painting in oil, &c. ... By C. K.

No cover image available
Date:
1697
Physical Description:
4 p. ., 160 p. incl. front. 11 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of painting in oyl : wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery : containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working in oyl colours ... / by John Smith ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:
1687
Physical Description:
[12], 100 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. A book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints : and the art of painting with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers, or, The young-man's time well spent ...

No cover image available
Date:
1660
Physical Description:
[5], 20 [i.e. 39] p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The English academy : a drawing book containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies : with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning ... / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

No cover image available
Creator:
P. L
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
[4], 36 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. 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 ... 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 ...

No cover image available
Date:
1688
Physical Description:
1 p. ., [11], 123 p. front., illus., plates (part fold.) 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Graphice : the use of the pen and pensil, or, The most excellent art of painting : in two parts / by William Sanderson.

No cover image available
Creator:
Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676
Date:
1658
Physical Description:
[16], 87 p., [3] leaves of plates : ports ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The first booke of drawing & limning.

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Creator:
Peacham, Henry, approximately 1576–approximately 1643
Date:
circa 1700?
Physical Description:
1 v. (5-129, [1] leaves) : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The art of painting : wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work, whether posts, pales, pallisadoes, gates, doors, windows, wainscotting, border boards for gardens ... / composed by John Smith ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Smith, John, fl. 1673–1680
Date:
1676
Physical Description:
[16], 84 p., 15 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... / by Henry Peacham ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Date:
1634
Physical Description:
[8], 163 p. : ill., coats of arms ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts