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Plate XV, use of a grid for drawing a portrait   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Salmon, William, 1644-1713
Title
Plate XV, use of a grid for drawing a portrait
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English: Plate XV, showing the use of a grid for drawing a portrait, from Polygraphice, or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : in seven books : Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landscapes, countreys, and figures of various forms ; the way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments ; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities ; the paintings of the antients ; washing of maps, globes or pictures ; the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones and metals ; the vernishing, colouring, and gilding thereof, according to any purpose or intent : the painting, colouring and beautifying of the face, skin and hair ; the whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting : and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparation, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies / by William Salmon ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures ; the like never yet extant.London : Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, 1685.
Date 1685
date QS:P571,+1685-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q5090408
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TT153 .S356 1685, Library collections, Science History Institute.
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