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 84
eat fait, fo let it ftand three or foure daics in fomeclofe place: then muft you diftill it in this manner,takeapeeceof Glovers Leather, that is very thin,and picke away the skinny fide, and put your goldtherein binding it clofe, then hanging it up, the SalArmowackcvjAi fret away, and the gold… … Chap. XXIII. The Etymologic and true mixture of colours, of Blacke, Lacke is fo called from the Saxon wordblack, in French Noir, in Italian Nero,in Spanifli Negro, from the Latine Ni-ger, and from the Greeke, **fitt whichtgQi£cthhead, becaufe all dead and corruptedthings are properly of this…
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