Image: Polygraphice RGNb10364018.18.plate XVII river

Description: Plate XVII, landscape with river, house or enclosure, fishermen and a woman drawing, from Polygraphice, or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming : in seven books : Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landscapes, countreys, and figures of various forms ; the way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments ; the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities ; the paintings of the antients ; washing of maps, globes or pictures ; the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones and metals ; the vernishing, colouring, and gilding thereof, according to any purpose or intent : the painting, colouring and beautifying of the face, skin and hair ; the whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting : and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparation, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies / by William Salmon ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures ; the like never yet extant.London : Printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London Bridge and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, 1685.
Title: Plate XVII, landscape with river, house or enclosure, fishermen and a woman drawing
Credit: https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cc08hg69n
Author: Salmon, William, 1644-1713
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