Fisher, Jonathan, 1768-1847
Woodworker, Landscape painter
Size: 16 p. (on 9 frames of microfilm).
Summary: Treatise discussing materials, colors, techniques, and "receipts for those who paint in water colors." In addition, sketches begin an unfinished section on "Sketching." Hogarth's ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY is quoted.
Wood engraver and portrait and landscape painter in Blue Hill, Maine. Also clergyman, author, poet, linguist, inventor, farmer, surveyer, architect, naturalist, missionary, and teacher.
Donated 1974 by William P. Hinckley.
Microfilm reel 2804 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Painting : in water color : holograph ms., [undated] / [by Jonathan Fisher]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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