The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath.

Title

The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath.

Author

Smith, John, b. 1648?

Publication

London :: Printed for Samuel Crouch ...,

1676.

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Subject terms

Painting, Industrial -- Early works to 1800.

Sundials.

Decoration and ornament -- Early works to 1800.

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"The art of painting wherein is included the whole art of vulgar painting, according to the best and most approved rules for preparing an [sic] laying on of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full, compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever may by the directions contained therein be sufficiently able to paint in oyl colours, not only sun-dials, but also all manner of timber work ... / composed by John Smith, philomath." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A60467.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• license
• title page
• TO The Reader.
• A TABLE of the Contents of the several Chapters.
• THE Art of Painting SVN-DIALS.
  • CHAP. I. The Description and Use of the several Tools used in and about the Art of Painting.
  • CHAP. II. A Catalogue of several Colours used in the Art of Painting; their Na∣ture and Use.
  • CHAP. III. How to order such Colours as require to be burnt in the fire, to make them the more fit for some uses.
  • CHAP. IV. How to wash such Colours as by their grittiness are not otherwise to be made fine enough for certain Uses.
  • CHAP. V. How to grind Colours with Oyl.
  • CHAP. VI. How to order Colours for working after they are ground.
  • CHAP. VII. How to make Gold size to lay Gold on when you guild.
  • CHAP. VIII. What Colours set off best one with an∣other.
  • CHAP. IX. What Colours are sufficient for Paint∣ing Sun-Dials.
  • CHAP. X. Some Instructions for making of Plains and Boards to draw Dials on.
  • CHAP. XI. How to make the best Glew for glewing the Joynts of Dial-Boards.
  • CHAP. XII. A Catalogue of such Books as are neces∣sary for him that would be a Com∣pleat Dialist.
  • CHAP. XIII. The Practice of Painting Sun-Dials.
  • CHAP. XIV. How to guild the Figures of Sun-Dials with Gold.
  • CHAP. XV. How to lay on Smalt, the only Colour that requires strewing.
  • CHAP. XVI. The Practice of Vulgar Painting.
  • CHAP. XVII. How to scour, refresh and preserve all manner of Oyl Paintings.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Some Improvements in Painting to re∣sist weather, and preserve Timber or woodden works from rotting.
  • Postscript.