Colors - Early works to 1800
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The painter's companion or a treatise on colours. Shewing how to make the several sorts from their proper ingredients; together with the best method of colouring maps, prints, views, &c. The whole being practical improvements on the experiments of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Very useful for Gentlemen and Ladies that amuse themselves with painting in Water Colours, as well as Designers, Limners, &c.
Hoofnail, JohnDate: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- E-books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne , extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny the ElderDate: MDCCXXV. [1725]- E-books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne , extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrig�e sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & �eclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny the ElderDate: MDCCXXV. [1725]- E-books
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The art of painting in miniature teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By Rules so easy, and in a Method so natural as to render this charming Accomplishment universally attainable. Containing, I. The Difference between Painting in Miniature, and other Kinds of Painting. II. The Management of Colours in Draperies, Linnen, Lace, Furts, &c. III. The Method of mixing Colours for Carnations; for painting of Architecture, or any Building of Stone or Wood; for Landskips, Terrasses, Water, Ruins, Rocks, &c. IV. The Art of Painting all Sorts of Flowers, with the proper Colours required to represent Nature to the highest Perfection. V. The various Methods of Painting. Translated from the original French. The fifth edition. To which are now added, I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest Colours, Burnished Gold, Shell Gold, &c. II. Some general instructive Lessons for the Art of Drawing. And III. The Usefulness and Benefit of Prints.
Claude BoutetDate: 1750