The school of arts improv'd, or, Companion for the ingenious ...

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(from t. p.) I. Drawing; painting in oil and water colours; gilding, etching, engraving, painting upon glass, and bronzing -- II. The arts of painting or staining glass and marble. Of staining wood, ivory, bones, horn, paper, parchment, &c. --III. Dying linen, woolen, silk, leather, &c.--IV. Of casts and impressions from figures, busts, medals, leaves, &c.--V. The whole art of pyrotechny or fire-works--VI. The art of making porcelain after the Chinese manner. With a great variety of other curious particulars, equally instructive and amusing.