Ars Pictoria: or an Academy Treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching. To which are Added XXXI. Copper Plates, Expressing the Choicest, Nearest, and most Exact Grounds and Rules of Symmetry.

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Ars Pictoria: or an Academy Treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching. To which are Added XXXI. Copper Plates, Expressing the Choicest, Nearest, and most Exact Grounds and Rules of Symmetry.

Engraved by: Arnold de Jode (Flemish (worked in England), 1638–active to 1666)
After: Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, about 1564–1651)
After: Odoardo Fialetti (Italian, 1573–1638)
After: Agostino Carracci (Italian, 1557–1602)
After: Lodovico Carracci (Italian, 1555–1619)
After: Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Palma the Younger) (Italian (Venetian), about 1548–1628)
After: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)
After: Simone Cantarini (Italian (active in Pesaro and Bologna), 1612–1648)
Author: Alexander Browne (English, active 1659–1706)
Publisher: Arthur Tooker (English, 17th century)
Publisher: William Battersby (English, 17th century)

1675

Place of Publication: London, England

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 31 engravings

Dimensions Overall: 31.1 x 20.5 x 3 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler

Accession NumberKBR92

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

London: Arthur Tooker and William Battersby, 1675

Catalogue Raisonné Wing B5098

Description(London: Arthur Tooker and William Battersby, 1675) Folio; 112 leaves; contemporary blind- and gilt-stamped brown calf.

Studies of anatomy, expression, figural movement, and composition

ProvenanceJohn [Wynn?], 1686[?]; E. Burt, October [17?]87; William Abbot, 1808; G. Knowles; John Grace Freeman, Battersea, 19 Sept 1859; Sylvester R. Koehler, Boston (1837-1900, first Curator of Prints at MFA), by whom given to MFA, October 20, 1898.