The gentlemans exercise, or, An exquisite practise : as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures, as also the making of all kinds of colors, to be used in limming, painting, tricking, and blazon of coates, and armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations for all young gentlemen and others : as also serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of diuers trades-men and artificers ... (1634)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · London : Printed [by J. Legat] for I.M[arriott]. and are to bee sold by Francis Constable at the signe of the crane, in Pauls Church-yard · leaf 32
ll you; that you muft be perfect andquickein the generall or outward lines, and givethem a reafonable good proportion, ere you fall to(hadowing or tricking your worke within: where-fore I would have you make an a(Tey fixeorfeventimes at the leaft for the generall proportion onely:if at firft it be… … fainter. to The firfi Booke of Lib. I. it out fhft narrow in the necke, then wider from thecheekes, and narrow againc under the chin very tru-ly ,ere you adde the lace of fetting, all which is donewith one line, which I call the generali or extreme.For thofe formes that are mixed and uncertaine,…
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