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LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. PLAT1594a > No. 37, “How to draw any grosse pattern of any beast, fowl, Tree, Fruit, Flower, Personage, or other picture whatsoever.” In The Jewell House of Art and Nature (1st edn., London, 1594; rpt. 1653). By Sir Hugh Platt (bap. 1552, d. 1608).

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17th-century head-piece showing six boys with farm tools, by Wenceslaus Hollar

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