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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.

(Flemish (worked in England), 1638–active to 1666)
(Dutch, about 1564–1651)
(Italian, 1573–1638)
(Italian, 1557–1602)
(Italian, 1555–1619)
(Italian (Venetian), about 1548–1628)
(Italian (active in Pesaro and Bologna), 1612–1648)
(English, active 1659–1706)
(English, 17th century)
(English, 17th century)
1675
Place of PublicationLondon, England
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 31 engravings
DimensionsOverall: 31.1 x 20.5 x 3 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberKBR92
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ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
London: Arthur Tooker and William Battersby, 1675
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.