The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ...
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The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ...
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Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573-1638.
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London :: Printed for Peter Stint ... and Simon Miller ...,
1660.
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Drawing -- Technique.
Painting -- Technique.
Etching -- Technique.
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"The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41260.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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THE CONTENTS.
SEverall Observations and Directions in the Art of Drawing, page 1. 7
The Manner of Drawing a Head by the Life, 1. 45
How to Draw a naked man by the Life, 2, 3
How to perfect the out-Lines of any Point or Figure 6
How to decline any Print in a small com∣pass, ibid
Observations in the Art of Limning, and Paint∣ing, and Tempering Colours, 8, 9, 10, 11
How to prepare a Tablet to work on, 12
Rules for Shadows in the Face, 13
How to begin a Face by the Life, 14
Concerning dead-Colouring, 15
The second work of Painting observed in the second Sitting, 15, 16
The Manner of finishing at the third Sitting, 17
Ornaments in setting forth a Picture, 18
A Receipt to make liquid Gold, 19
Rules for Landskips, ibid
Secrets for preserving Colours, 20
Generall Observations in Painting, ibid
Instruments to draw with, 21
To make Wax-work or Moulding, 22, 23
To counterfeit Sweet Meats, 24
To counterfeit Pearl, ibid
Grounds and Rules of Etching, 25
Instruments used in Etching, 25, 26
How to make the Ground, 27
How to lay the Ground on the Plate, 28▪ 33
How to draw the outmost Lines of any Print on the Plate, ibid
Severall Observations in Hatching, 29
Necessary Observations in Etching Land∣skips, 30
How to make the Wax-wall round about the Plate, to keep the Aqua fortis from running off, ib
How to use the Aqua fortis, ibid
How to know when it is eaten deep enough, 31
To lay a white or red Ground on a black, 32
How to preserve the work in frosty Weather, 34
To keep the Aqua fortis from injuring the Plate, ibid
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To Etch soft or hard according to Nature or Art, ibid
Observations in Etching Prospective, 35
How to Grave any Hand or Letter on Cop∣per, ibid
How to Polish the Plate, 36
Fit Instruments to be used; and their use, ibid
Rules of Proportion for Drawing of the Ear, 38
Nose, Mouth, and Beard, 40
The Head upright, or with a Triangle, 41, 42
The Foreright, and other Positions of the Face, 48
The Inclining or Foreshortning of the Face, 46
A more perfect Foreshortning, 44
The upright or side-Face without any Mea∣sure, 50
The Manner how to describe a Head every way without Measure, 52
Of Childrens Heads, 54
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