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 8
he Saints and Soueraignes ofour affections and deuifes: few they are I confefle,and fo few,that if by euents fore-pafl: we may iudgcof things to come, I feare me ere many yeeres, euenthe moft necefTary Artes to our pofterity trunt foft-liminio remand*y fo great a coldntfle hath benum-med our times.… … The Epiflle Dedicatory. couragement from the better fort. Our countrymenbeing as happy in their invention as the beft ftrangerof them all. For mine owne part, I hope I mail notbe imagined to fpeake as Demetrius did for his filverImages, as gaining ought hereby, fince by profeifi-on I am a…
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