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 Netherland authors. By Alexander Browne, practicioner of the Art of limning, and published for all ingenious gentlemen and artists.
1669
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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 Netherland authors. By Alexander Browne, practicioner of the Art of limning, and published for all ingenious gentlemen and artists.
Created/published
London : Printed by J. Redmayne, for the author, and are to be sold by him at his lodging, at the sign of the Angel, the corner of James street and Long Acre, and Richard Tompson at the Sun in Bedford street, and Arthur Tooker at the Globe in the Strand near the New Exchange, 1669.
Description
[8], 110, [2] p., 30 leaves of plates, port. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Browne, Alexander, active 1660-1677, author.
Huysmans, Jacob, 1636?-1696, printmaker.
Huysmans, Jacob, 1636?-1696, printmaker.
Note
Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-2E².
Frontis. = plate = port.
The frontispiece is a portrait of Alexander Browne and is signed: Ia: Huysmans pinx: Ac: de Iode scu:.
The last plate is signed: G. R. inc.
Frontis. = plate = port.
The frontispiece is a portrait of Alexander Browne and is signed: Ia: Huysmans pinx: Ac: de Iode scu:.
The last plate is signed: G. R. inc.
ESTC staff note
Catalogued from original at the British Library; details on last plate from DFo.
DFo jre 2⁰; [8], 110, [2] p., 30 leaves of plates: ill, port.; engr. port. (frontis.) of Browne is signed by "Ia: Husmans Pinx: Ac: de Iode Scu:"; last plate signed "G.R. inc"
DFo jre 2⁰; [8], 110, [2] p., 30 leaves of plates: ill, port.; engr. port. (frontis.) of Browne is signed by "Ia: Husmans Pinx: Ac: de Iode Scu:"; last plate signed "G.R. inc"
Cited/described in
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 (CD-ROM, 1996), B5097
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R19752
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R19752
Genre/form
Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
B5097
Folger-specific note
155693. Manuscript notes: inscription on recto of frontis. to Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Vandick [Van Dyck]. Some leaves foxed, affecting text