Polygraphice, or, the Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming

Salmon, William, 1644-1713, Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698, Cross, Thomas, Sherwin, William · 1685 · Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain · 6 pictures

Polygraphice is William Salmon's handbook of drawing, engraving, limning, painting, dyeing and perfuming, printed in London in 1685 for the booksellers Passinger and Sawbridge, with plates by Frederick Hendrick van Hove, Thomas Cross and William Sherwin, aimed at apprentices and amateur practitioners. The plates are numbered copying exercises: a line-engraved standing woman in heavy drapery, and faint graphite studies of eyes, noses, mouths and half-modelled bodies offset onto facing leaves.

Art metal-work · Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800 · Drawing -- Technique · Palmistry · Materia medica -- Early works to 1800 · Salmon, William, 1644-1713 · Herbs -- Therapeutic use · Workshop recipes · Perfumes · Dyes and dyeing · Portrait painting -- Technique · Beauty, Personal · Painting -- Technique · Cosmetics · Pharmacy -- Early works to 1800 · Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions · Medicine, Popular · Alchemy -- Early works to 1800 · Herbs · Formulas, recipes, etc. -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Early works to 1800 · Herbals

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