The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 170
s, withouthindring the other Light; doing flill more good, as being a Lamp,and having burnt a long Time without fnuffing, and therefore caftinga gloomy ruffet Light, when that of the Spe6tre is bituminous, burn-ing white and blueilh. As for the fmall Compafs of the Ordonnance, fome would have…
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