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PAINTING
POPULARLY EXPLAINED;
WITH
The Practice of the Art,
AND
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF ITS PROGRESS.
BY
THOMAS J. GULLICK, PAINTER,
AND
JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
The plan of this work is thus sketched in the _Introduction_:
“There have been in the history of Art, four grand styles of
imitating Nature--Tempera, Encaustic, Fresco, and Oil. These,
together with the minor modes of Painting, we propose arranging
in something like chronological sequence; but our design being
to offer an explanation of the Art derived from practical
acquaintance, rather than attempt to give its history, we shall
confine ourselves for the most part to so much only of the History
of Painting as is necessary to elucidate the origin of the
different practices which have obtained at different periods.”
By this means, the Authors hope to produce a work which may be
valuable to the Amateur, and interesting to the Connoisseur, the
Artist, and the General Reader.