| Description Of Item | Notes on the phrase ‘Painters undertake to express such things, as nature is not able to do’, and on how ‘the art of painting’ at the beginning ‘was very poor’, as [Claudius] Aelianus says that artists had to write under each figure what it represented.
May have been copied from copied from William Salmon, Polygraphice, or, the arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming in four books (1673).
May also have been copied from Franciscus Junius, The painting of the ancients in three bookes: declaring by historicall observations and examples, the beginning, progresse, and consummation of that most noble art (1638).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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