The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters : containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern, being the most perfect work of the kind extant
An English translation of Roger de Piles's treatise on painting and biographies of some 300 painters, with Bainbrigg Buckeridge's essay on English painters, printed in London by T. Payne in 1754 for artists, collectors and connoisseurs. The plates here are letterpress ornaments: foliate woodcut initials with roses and acanthus, and tailpiece baskets of flowers and fruit on scrolled bases, usable as drop caps, dividers and spot decoration.
