Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;
- Title
- Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;
- Author
- Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Robert Crofts, at the signe of the Crown in Chancery-Lane, under Serjeant's Inne,
- 1658.
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- Subject terms
- Drawing -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
- Painting -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
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On the
Picture of the Author,M r SANDERSON. - PREFACE.
- READER,
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To Mr.
Sanderson, the Author of thisBook, The Art ofPainting. -
Upon our English
Zeuxis, W. San∣derson, Esquire. -
On the noble Art of
PAINTING. -
To the exquisitely Ingenious, W. SANDERSON Esq On his Book of
Painting in Water-Colours. -
Clarissimo viro
Guilielmo Sandersono, Artis Zoographicae excultori Celeberrimo. - title page
- portrait of Charles I
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In Effigiem
Caroli, Nuper-Regis. -
GRAPHICE: OR The use of the Pen and Pensil;
In the most Excellent Art of PAINTING.- Of the Five Senses.
- Of the Excellency of Sight.
- Of a Landskip.
- Of Painting and Poetry compared.
- The Ʋse and Ornament of Pictures.
- Of Originall Pieces and of Copies.
- Choyce of Pictures.
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Particular Masterie
. - Of Abilities in Painters.
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Grecians the first Painters. - How to dispose of Pictures and Paintings.
- Of Grotesco.
- Of Fresco.
- To place the Pictures within Doors.
- Of Drawing, and Designing in generall.
- The Practice of Drawing or Designing.
- Of the powers of a Painter and Painting.
- A Picture of the Husband and his Wife.
- A Promontory of Land, like a Mans head.
- Of the Parts of a Piece.
- Conclusion of this first Part.
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The Use of the PENSIL:
In the most Excellent Art of LIMNING, In WATER-COLOURS. Part II.- Of Limning in Water-Colours.
- Of Whites.
- Colours, to be grinded.
- Colours to be washed, and not to be ground.
- Of Pensils.
- The first Division, by Life.
- The second Division by Landskip: The Tablet.
- The Third Division of History.
- Four severall sorts of Colouring.
- Of Drapery in Limning.
- Observations in Limning.
- Of Pastills, or Croyons.
- To work in Croyons or Pastills,
- For tempering so many Pastills for change of Colours in the Face.
- Of Frescoe.
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To make excellent pur
White-Lead. - To make severall Colours.
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A Crimson-Velv
t. -
Excellent Receipts from Mr.
Hilliard, that old famous English Limner. - An excellent Black.
- The five perfect Colours, with their Lights and Shaddowes.
- An excellent Receipt to make Ʋltra-Marine.
- To make a Varnish.
- An excellent Water, for the preserving white-Colours, and recovering them, being dead or starved; and generally for all Colours.
- The draught of a Landskip Mathematicall; they that have leasure and desire thereto, may make experiment.
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To make clean a fonl, or old
Picture, inOyle. -
Light, bad for the eyes.