IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118866 accession number: PB 28-2005 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: xii, 300, [8] p : 2 plates ; 20 cm. object type: London : Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1743 object type: Inscriptions by P. Nussey, Col., who has added "bought in Edinborough of Creeck" and W. Millner, junior. With amorial bookplate of Albemarle Cator. object type: Written originally in French by Mons. du Piles ... and now first translated into English by a painter. title: The principles of painting, under the heads of anatomy ... &c. In which is contained an account of the Athenian, Roman, Venetian and Flemish schools. To which is added, The balance of painters being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art : of singular use to those who would form an idea of the value of paintings and pictures LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118866 PEOPLE ------------------- Nussey, P. Millner, J. (junior) Cator, Albemarle TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1743 - 1743 creation date earliest: 1743 creation date latest: 1743 CREATORS -------- maker: Piles, Roger de maker: Osborn, J.