The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures. Also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours. Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and here inserted for examples for the learner to practice by ..
A 1668 London drawing and painting manual, printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel for booksellers Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, compiling instruction from Dürer, Lomazzo and others for apprentice draughtsmen and limners. The copperplate cuts break the body into numbered practice studies — hands on proportion grids, bent arms, legs, noses and mouths in cross-hatching — usable as line-art anatomy parts and measured diagrams.
