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 44
manner as thus : 3. AH perfect lights doe re-ceive no fhadow at all, there-fore hee, did abfurdly, thatin the transfiguration of ourSaviour in the Mount, gavenot his garments a deepe flia-dow, but alfo thinking to mewgreat Art, heegave the bcamesof the light it felfe a deeper,both which oughtto… … j % The firft Books »f L i b * i. (as thofe crofTe winds about Aeneas his fliip) for fu-periority, let the neereft and moft folide body befirft ferved. In the double and treble fhadowes, letyour firft ftrokes be very dry for feare of blottingere you croffe them. j.It will feeme a hard matter to…
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