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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 .. (1688)

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forDrawing, proceed to Pradlice- and fir ft be-gin with plain Geometrical figures, fuch as theCircle, Oval, Square, Triangle, Cone, Cylinder • allwhich your Rule and Compaffes will help yon in :but firft endeavour to draw them by hand, whichwith a little practice you may attain. I have myfelF, by… … Part I. The Pen and Pencil 19 little finger upon my paper, turning the paperabout with my left hand, and have defcribed aCircle fo exaft, that a pair of Compafles could notdifcoveran errour: I fay, practice the making anddrawing of thefe by hand, for they are all ufeful inone kind or other.…

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