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Identifier: excellencyofpenp00lond (find matches)
Title: The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern ..
Year: 1688 (1680s)
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Subjects: Drawing Drawing Art
Publisher: London, Printed for Dorman Newman ...
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14* Part I. The Pen and Pencil. 41 SECT. IX. Rules of Symmetry or Proportion to heobferved in Drawing the whole Body of Man orWoman* T?OR your further help in Drawing the fol-1/ lowing Figures, take notice of chefe necefiaryRules: Begin at the Head, and fo proceed by de-grees, as your pattern directs , and be careful thatyour parallel Joynts, Smews\ or Mufcles9bo dire&lyoppofite; alfo that the Motion of the Body beanfwerable one part to another, and that the partsand limbs of the body have a due fymmetry; nota great Arm, and a fmall Leg; or a fmall HW,anda great Finger, &c. Let not one part be too longfor another. Of all which, you muft know, thatat firft you will be apt to commit many errours,butbe not difheartned -, proceed, and your labour willnot be loft, experience is gained by pra&ice; be butdiiigent,and you will find more eafe than you couldimagine: at firft all things that are attainable feem:difficult; we have a good old faying, Nothing ishard to a willing mind, a

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  • bookcentury:1600
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