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. Collected out of the most eminent Italian, German, and Netherland authors. By Alexander Browne, practitioner in the art of limning

Browne, Alexander, active 1660-1677 · 1675 · London : printed for Arthur Tooker, at the Globe in the Strand, over against Ivie-Bridge; and William Battersby, at Thavie's Inne Gate in Holborn, near S. Andrew's Church · 27 pictures

Ars pictoria is a 1675 London art instruction manual by Alexander Browne, a limner, compiling rules of drawing, painting and etching from Italian, German and Netherlandish masters for students and practitioners. Its plates are copper-engraved studies of isolated anatomical fragments such as legs, feet, hands and heads, drawn in fine parallel hatching with the anatomy built up by light and shade, a useful reference for designers studying figure construction and line-based shading.

Drawing · Painting · Etching · Art -- Technique -- Early works to 1800 · Drawing -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800 · Etching -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800 · Painting -- Early works to 1800 · Art -- Technique

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