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 70
andle, and the light thereof on one fide fhadowed Li B.i. T> rawing and Limfning, 57 fhadowedthree parts, when there ought to havebeene none at all, becaufe it is corpus lumindfum,which may caufea fhadow but takenone. The feventh of motion as a certaine Painter ab~furdly made trees bend with the… … Chap. XVIII.Of the Senceoffeeing, and of the Eye, fOw before I come to entreate partieslarly of colours, it lhall not be amideas wellformethodcas for pleafure, tofpeakc fomcwhat of that fenfitive partof the foule which we call fight, with-out which it were in vaine for mee to difcourfc ofcolours,…
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