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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: 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: [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: On King William
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 15
Contents: Laudatory description of William III before the Battle of the Boyne,
imagining the scene as the subject of a painting
Title: In the parish church of Draycot in the Moors, the Ascension of
our Saviour is painted at the west end to which all the
congregation turn their backs in service time, which occasion'd
the following lines; [On a picture in the church of Draycot
(verso, i.e.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 44
Contents: Criticism of the fact that in Draycot Church the congregation
face away from a painting of Christ's ascension.
Title: In Praise of Poetry
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174-?
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On poetry's ability to conjure up sound, which can convey sorrow or delight, contrasting it with painting