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 590
tion-line. This, with refpeft to Proportion, muft likewife be obferved, in de-figning Figures, and other Obje&s, as I (hall hereafter ihew, by Ex-amples. This Sort of Painting is not only the moft artful, but alfo the mofbdifficult, as I have before faid; becaufe, altho weunderftand the…
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