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Title: On painting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: On the progress of painting
Title: Painting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Comparing the arts of painting and poetry
Title: Decorum in painting
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: On the importance of order in painting
Title: In Praise of Painting.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On the ability of painting to convey a scene, through the universal language of image, unlike writing which is confined to a certain language.
Title: An epigram on a painted lady with ill teeth
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 94
Contents: Argues that although a woman's beauty may entice lovers, the sight of her rotten teeth would quickly repel them
Title: Upon a chamber call'd Pernassus where the gentry-arms are painted
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 166- ?
Manuscript: Lt 38
Contents: Witty epigram commenting on coats of arms decorating a room called Parnassus,
possibly alluding to poetry
Title: Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds' painted window at New College, Oxford
Author: Warton, Thomas
Attribution: Mr Thomas Warton
Date(s): 1782 (written)
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: On Sir Joshua Reynolds' painted window at New College, Oxford, in the form of a meditation on art and truth, concluding that fancy needs to be tempered by purity. Prefaced by 'Advertisement - the following peice was never originally designed for
the press
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: On the rise of two schools of painting, represented by Raphael and Titian
Title: On a young lady working her a toilet
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: In praise of the beauty of a young lady, painting herself with cosmetics
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 8
Contents: Advising a beginner that practice will eventually result in learning the art
of painting
Title: The Arcadia of Poussin.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: Praising and describing Poussin's painting, Arcadia, reflecting on death and mortality
Title: A catch
Author: Taverner, William
Attribution: Mr Taverner [in Miscellany of Poems by Charles Gildon ... 1692]
Date(s): 1688 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 71
Contents: Drinking song in praise of the effect of wine on the complexion, comparing the result to a painting