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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5. Of Turnsoil.

Turnsoil is made of pieces of Linnen cloth dyed of a kind of Violet-colour.

Take a dish and put some sharp Vinegar therein, together with your Turnsoil, then set the dish over a gentle fire in a chafingdish till the Vinegar boyl and be coloured, then take out the Turnsoil and squeeze it into the Vinegar; to which put a little Gum-Arabick to dissolve; it is an excellent good liquor to shadow upon any Carnation or Yellow.