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About this Item

Title

  • Ars pictoria: or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and 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 ...

Other Title

  • Ars pictoria
  • Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching

Names

  • Browne, Alexander, active 1660-1677.
  • Tooker, Arthur, active 1669-1680, bookseller.
  • Battersby, William, active 1654-1706, bookseller.
  • Huysmans, Jacob, approximately 1633-1696, engraver.
  • Hedges, Charles, -1714, former owner.
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Art--Technique
  • -  England--London

Notes

  • -  Title page printed in red and black.
  • -  Plates 1-30 so numbered. Most of the plates and the portrait signed: A. de Iode sculp. Portrait plate signed: Ia. Huysmans Pinx. Other plates most often signed A. Blomert invent. and others signed: A. Carat, Invent., I. Callenbina Invent., I. Palma Invent., F. Parmesan, or G. R. inv.
  • -  "An appendix to the art of painting in miniature of limning ... Never pub. before. London, A. Tooker, 1675": 39, [2] p. at end.
  • -  English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) R35406
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1523
  • -  LC copy has bookplates of Sir Charles Hedges and Howard C. Levis.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-09-03 update (2 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-01 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 110, 39, [2] p. (the last on fold. leaf) : plates, port. ; 35 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • N7430 .B7 1675
  • N7430 .B7 1675 Copy 2 31 cm. Plates 1-29 numb. and unsigned. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
  • N7430 .B7 1675 Copy 3 31 cm. Imperfect: fold. leaf wanting. Plates 1-31 numb. (the last two interchanged) and signed as in LC copy 1. Bookplate of Howard C. Levis.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49039027

Online Format

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  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Browne, Alexander, Active, Arthur Tooker, William Battersby, Jacob Huysmans, Charles Hedges, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Ars pictoria: or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and 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. 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. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49039027/.

APA citation style:

Browne, A., Tooker, A., Battersby, W., Huysmans, J., Hedges, C., Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1675) Ars pictoria: or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and 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. 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. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/49039027/.

MLA citation style:

Browne, Alexander, Active, et al. Ars pictoria: or, An academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and 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. 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. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/49039027/>.