The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

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Title: The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...
Publication: London :: Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones ...,; 1668.
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Subject terms: Drawing -- Study and teaching.; Drawing -- Early works to 1800.; Art -- Technique.
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1. Of Litmos, how to order it.

Take fine Litmos and cut it in small pieces, then lay it in steep the space of twenty four hours at least, in a weak Water of Gum-Lake; [The ma∣king of Gum-Lake Water is taught before in the first Chapter of the third Book, pag. 66.] it will be a pure Blew Water, good to Wash withall.