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 3
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 3 i 1 i- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 59 Browne A ARS PICTORIA or an Academy treating of Drawing Painting Limning HEtching with 31 copper plates expressing the choicest nearest and most exact grounds and rules of Symmetry folio Bs…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Boma Z- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching A rs s Pifloia Ty Li WO 8 Bac a es SY rg B 0 R A ane hal TREATING OF DRAWING SHMTIG PAINTING ETCHING To which are Added XXX Copper Phares…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 1 sree LLL Mili WE To the READER Â Â Jecond thoughts 1 judge it needful to fay omewhat concerning The Proportions of Men Women and Children 7 bey portions in the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- Date: 1675
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching  InLaudenOperofi Volumini Alexandri Browne Gen A ndem Browne venis ex peatiflimus Hopes Florilegas imitatus Apes qui Sculptilis Artis Quicquid ab externis populis exuxeris annis Pluribus in proprium prudens difponis Hymitton il…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching On my EXCELLENT PIECE He ve you may find objeled to your Eye AP aint the creations Man Gods Imaâ gry What catter d rays of Heaven in us remain eA re…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Image 13 of Copy 3
Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Your Book advances further and difplayes What Piutarqhâ s cM orals or bis lives have aid Weary Philofophy expires in rife hilâ t you expofe plain truth unto the Life atures excels…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching OF THE Oo F PROPORTION on SYTMETRY UCH is the Importance and Vertue of Pros Y portion that nothing can any way atisficthe Eye without the help thereof So that whatfoever worketh…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching I eT Cs SS eT Ee se a EA ETE re ee Tg 2 A So â oh WET i i Lr âââ x Ss es 8 Pt OF Propdition are ftlirred…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching a ââ ed Tr uy a door Symeny 13 Of the Nece ity and Definition of Proportion JT was not withoutâ juft Caufe that the antient L âGrecians at which time the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Symerricdmeafure of the parts orderly united Wherefore my greateft endeavour shall be to lay open the worthinefs of this part of painting  unto Er 1 Of Proportion br convenient to confider…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching and Wt  PU Ka Oks I ta 0 rcs 1 J 1  ans Arn GOL LAs An Ofl that nel E BE y Fl or Symetry untoall fuchas are naturally…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching let E ba oS Ch ARE segs RR EE v 5â ETT i a wo A re ed ie ai i om pari CS nt CL EE ER Sy TR el rh…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Finy LWA wy forSymeryâ 7 Pofition you will fo this âabandon not the two other Lines each soncrving its their due points tear Of the Foveright Face ry Eing then defircous to…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching EE SR Â Of Proportion fom folute and fair way Treating thus I propound to jo you Mecthodical means therein becaufe my intent fu isto Facilitatethe matter in that manner butwith Lh…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching from the life of nature and reduced it with che Peticil into Colours have found it come off punctually of Symetry il right of a correfpondent bignefs to thar which 1 have…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching  OFProportion oe othatin the Firft place you muftbe ure to take the right Phyfiognomy and bignefs of the Face andin cafe itbea Fat Faceyou will perceive the Cheeks to make the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching oie v or Symetry ii this Body whofe Proportion I intend to handle particularly anfwerable to the Symetry of all other Artificial Bodies which may be made far more beautiful then Nature…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching in Of Proportior in the firft Print at 4 Obferve that the three parts are onely for the Face and then there muftbe an allowance for the Hair above the Forebead the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching ALLY or Symetry ir brow to the Centreof the Eyeis the fame with the Prominen cy of the Nofrils and fo much it is between the Nofirils and the end of the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 14 Of Proportion Ga eft part of the Shoulders is to be two Faces and an half agree able to that diftance from the Elbow to the end of the Middle finger…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching or Symetry if ing io the Meafures of all the Parts which are truly Symmetyi cal and correpondent to the Paris of the V Vorld The Proportion of a Mn Body of…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 16 Of Proportion Painting as Germany cannotâ match again Firft chen this proportion isin length from the top of the Head to the Chinn atenthpartofthe whole thence back wards to the top…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Ll Ei gp ae YL TT OR Be Tn BUONO SF SB Ge I SCR St of Symetry 1F He shall commit a great abfurdicy in the Ah by making all his…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching A En RRR SA 5 AA RET YON E00 PE PDIRUAE LVL THESE TEIN JE 0 0 rd DEL LE A REA A CATE RAT TR aa TR oT Hp Rr RE…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching re or Symenry Cg eM aria de Gratias inc Milne and having finished all the other efpoftles he reprefented the two Famest with fuch perfection of Grace and Muajefly that en iy…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching go Of Proportion i nary Men of whom edn Gellins writeth that he obferved the Quantity of Hercules Foor wherewith the race in Aesias before Fupirer Olmypius his Temple where the Olympian…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching Pre 3 et EES 2 To A TG a or Symetry 3 Ten equall Parts whereof the Head muft be one from_ the Crown of the head to the privities mult be…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching BT Of Proportion w w The Proportion of awoman of Nine Faces IT was not without juft caufe that Vitruvius in the Firft of his eArchitetture diftinguishing the manner of Temples by…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching pa 4 ny is from the top of the head to the hint aNinth Parc of the length The Face from the Root of the hair to the Chinn may be cithera…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching â y Mm The Art of Painting reafon 13 becanfe_ every Print Jhews its defigne of it elf to any one that is Ingenious obferving the due diflances and lights The Definition…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching JY LAAY The Art of Painting 35 Hence itappeareth that Painting isan 4 becaufel it imitateth natural things moft precifely and is the counterfeiter and as itwere thevery Ape of name whofe…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Image 39 of Copy 3
Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching 6 The Art of Painting Geometry a Mechanical e Art becaufe the Handlabour therein imployed is o fleight that itwere an ab furdity in refpect thereof to reckon it a bafe con…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
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Image 40 of Copy 3
Ars pictoria | Academy treating of drawing, painting, limning, and etching wi TheArcofPamng 35 the Third Dimenfion which isroundnefs and thick nefs and o maketh theBody toappear upon a Flu where naturally itis not Furthermore itisadded in the Definition thatit  reprefenteth the…- Contributor: Browne, Alexander - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Battersby, William - Levis, Howard Coppuck - Hedges, Charles - Huysmans, Jacob - Tooker, Arthur
- 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.
Digital Id
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1523A
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1523B
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Rosenwald.1523C
Library of Congress Control Number
- 49039027
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Contributor
- Battersby, William
- Browne, Alexander
- Hedges, Charles
- Huysmans, Jacob
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Levis, Howard Coppuck
- Tooker, Arthur