Book/Printed Material 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 ... Copy 2

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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     2C THE GIFT OF 28 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 4 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 6 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 7 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     _ Ss re mâ â ad som 2 2 g â D 2 2 3 v 2 x  Ny PS i Ee i ir i E Sie 4 4 7 2…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
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    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 11 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     banana i rn LD RA
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 12 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     en i gi So SS CARR CE TE UL I Jiri lias er es RR Wh THe TI Ars Pas yi GR AN ACADE 1Y TREATING DRAWING ums PAINTING S ETCHING To…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 13 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     â fo a d â J pâ â Â br CS x a â â ey 2 2 Cd es â r ft
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 14 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     TO THE Mott Excellent and Illuftrious Princefs Dutchefsof Mon mours BuccriuaH Âc To the Moft Illuftrious and Highborn Prince JAMES Duke of Monmouth c âMadam SL J J LI the World knovvs…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 15 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     The Epiftle Dedicatory The Gods themfelves here prayers and fmell Sacrifices and declarethey love thele practifes for nootherend but to blefs and encourage us Men in our Obedience and Induftry As much…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 16 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     To the READER 0 U have the Contents of this Treatife fo particularly in the TitlePage and every particular Difcoiurfe fo A BR difplayed thar I meant it no other Preface but…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 17 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     In Laudem Operofi Voluminis âAlexandri Browne Gen Andem Browne venis expeQatiflimus Hofpes Florilegas imitatus Apes qui Sculptilis Artis B_ Quicquid ab externis populisexuxeris annis Pluribus in proprium prudens difponis Hymitton Et nunc…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 18 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     On my EXCELLENT PIECE Here youmdy find objedled vo your Eye Paint the creations Man Gods I maâ gry Wha fatterâ d vays of Heaven in us remain efrebere prefervd if uotrenewd…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 19 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     Your Book advances further and difplayes W bat Plurargws NL ovals or bis lives have faid Weary Philofophy expires in fhrife WV bil t yon expofe plain truth unto the Life Natures…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 20 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     OF THE Vertue and Praife 0 F PROPORTION ot STMETRY YU CH is the Importance and Vertue of Pro Y portion that nothing can any way fatisfie the Eye without the help…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 21 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     Of Proportion âare ftirred up in mens Minds by means of thisfuitable comelinefs of apt proportion A pregnant example whereof we haveinthe ZIwpiter carved by Phidias at Els which wrought an extraordinary…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 22 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     hd OF the A ece ity and Definition of Proportion T was not withoutâ juft Caufe that the antient Gracians at which time the Art of Painting had fully attained to his…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 23 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     19 Of Proportion it convenient to confuder the definition of proportion and the parts thereof TL we orion 1s a correfpondency and agreement of the Meafure of the partsbetween themlelves and with…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 24 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     i untoall fiuchas are naturally inclined thereunto by reafon of a good temperature joyned with an apt Sa Difpofition of the parts thereof for uch men will bemuch affected therewith totheend they…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 25 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     Of Proportion peeing Which it will either upwards or downi Sas wards higer or lower dividing that fide into three equall parts the one to ferve from the lower part of the…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 26 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     or ve a 5 nic â wn â a Ora iQ â_ a oe ws of Symetty ae Pofition you will fo this abandon not the two other Lines each âwongurring in…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 27 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     2 Of Proportion olute and fair way Treating thus I propound to you Methodical means therein becaufe my intent is to Facilitate the matter in âthat manner but with out writing therÃupon…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 28 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     AF les 1 J97 1 0 03 jn y ik Rian Ll ror Symmetry g 4 from the life oFmature and reduced it with the Peficil into Colours have found it come…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 29 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     0 Of Proportion othatin the Firlt place you muftbe fureto take the right Phyfiognomy and bignefs of the Face and in cafe it bea Fatâ Face you will perceive the Cheeks to…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 30 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     or Symetry 11 this Body whofe Proportion I intend to handle particularly âanwerable to the Symetry of all other Artificial Bodies which may be made far more beautiful then Nature affordeth any…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 31 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     12 Of Proportioti in the firlt Print at 4 Obferve that the three parts are onely for the Face and then there muft be an allowance for the Huir above the Forebead…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 32 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     ay or Symetry Bs 13 brow to the Centre of the Eye is the fame with the Prominen cy of the Noftrils and fo much it is between the Noftrils and the…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 33 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     OR TAL si fa Ob Peoporion eft part of the Shoulders is tobe two Faces and an half agree able to that diftance from the Elbow to the end of the Middle…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 34 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     oo OE ing to the Meafures of all the Parts which are truly Symmetri vo edly and correfpondent to the Pars of the VV orld The Proportion of a Mans Body of…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 35 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     96 Of Proporton Painting a5 Germany cannotâ match againâ Firft ches this proportions isin length from the top of the Head to the Chinn atenth partofthe whole thence back wards to the…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 36 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     of Symetry 157 He shall commit a great abfurdiry in the eft by making all his Pictures like Twinn Into which error notwithftanding divers otherwife worthy Painters have runn whofe names I…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 37 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     a Of Proportion The Proportion of 7 Man of Eight heads Y Hereas in every Work there is ome one entire Figure wheteunto all the particulars of the whole Hiftory ought to…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 38 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     oll lip 1th EM ariade Gratia_ in Milane and having finished all the other efpofiles he reprefented the twa Famers with fuch perfection of Grae and Majefly that Ãn deavouring afterwards to…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 39 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     20 Of Proportion nary Men of whom edn Gellins writeth that hà obferved the Quantity of Hercules Foot wherewith the race in Aauia betore Fupiter Olmypins his Temple where the Obhmpian Games…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675
  • Image 40 of Copy 2
    Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching     âor Symetry 3 Ten equall Parts whereof the Head mit be one from the Crown of the bead to the priviger multâ be Fiveofthe Ten and from the privities to the Sole…
    • Contributor: Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Browne, Alexander - Battersby, William - Tooker, Arthur - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Levis, Howard Coppuck
    • Date: 1675

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.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49039027

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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/.

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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/.

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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/>.