Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Exhibition of Drawings in Water Colours by Artists Born Anterior to 1800, and Now Deceased: Illustrative of the Progress and Development of That Branch of the Fine Arts in Great Britain
Although the art of painting in Opaque water colours (tempera) is Of high antiquity, it was not until the 17th century that the practice Of using transparent pigments, was adopted, in their landscape drawings, by some Artists Of the Dutch School; as also, (with or without admixture of body colour), by the Painters who, at that time, exercised their art in this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
