The art of painting in oil : Wherein is included Each particular Circumstance relating to that Art and Mystery: Containing the best and most approved Rules for Preparing, Mixing, and Working of Oil-Colours. The whole Treatise being so full, complete, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all Persons whatsoever, may be able, by these Directions, to paint in Oil Colours, all Manner of Timber-Work; such as Posts, Poles, Palisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any Thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation from the Violence or Injury of the Weather. In which are also particularly laid down all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed-Pictures, Sash-Windows, &c. in Oily-Colours. The eighth edition, with some alterations, and many matters added, which are not to be found in the former editions. To which is added, The whole art and mystery of colouring maps, and other Prints, with water colours. By John Smith, C.M.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, active 1673-1680.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Technique--Early works to 1800.

Painting.

Painting--Technique.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,110 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 12⁰

Other Title:

Art of painting in oyl

Place of Publication:

London : printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, No. 32, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXIX. [1769]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T186997.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.