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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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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London :: Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones ...,
1668.
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Drawing -- Study and teaching.
Drawing -- Early works to 1800.
Art -- Technique.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39003.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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6. Of Brazeel.

Take Brazeel grownd, to which put a quantity of small Beer, and as much Vinegar, set them in a pan upon a soft fire, and there let it boyl gently a good while, then put therein some fine powder of

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Allum to raise the Colour, as also some Gum-Arabick to bind it; boyl it so long till it taste strong on the tongue, it maketh a very transpa∣rent Red.

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