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Title: Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming ... : to which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy
Year: 1681 (1680s)
Authors: Salmon, William, 1644-1713 Sherwin, William, active 1670-1710 Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698 Vaughan, William, active 1664 White, Margaret, fl. 1678-1683 Crump, John, fl. 1673-1682
Subjects: Art Portrait painting Workshop recipes Toilet preparations Palmistry
Publisher: London : Printed by M. White, for John Crumpe, at the Sign of the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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, in refpect of Magnitude, Similitude, and Parts:left it feem crooked and deformed. IX. See that every parallel joynt bend moderately,fo as to anfwer in nature its oppofite. CHAP. XI. Of Shadowing a Naked Body. I. »-pHe Shadows of the Neck, in a child or youngX woman, are very fine, rare and hard to befeen: In a man, the finews and veins are expreiTed byihadowing of the reft of the neck, and leaving themwhite : the fhoulder is fhadowed underneath : thebrawn of the arm muft appear full and white, fhadow-ed on one fide. II. The veins of the back of the hand and theknuckles are made with two or three hair ftroaks witha fine touch of the pen. III. The paps of a man are (hewed by two or threeftroaks given underneath, in a woman with an or-bicular fhade,fomewhat deep •, the ribs retain no fhadowexcept you reprefent one lean or ftarved. IV. The belly is made eminent by fhadowing un-derneath the breaft bone and the flank: The brawn ofUte thigh is fhadowed by drawing fmall hair ftroaks from
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Chap, ni ThewayofSiiaiowmgi 2$ from the hip to the knee , and croITed again over-thwartly. V. The knee is to be finely fhadowed underneaththe joint ; the fhin-bone appears by Ihadowing onehalf of the leg with a fingle fhadow. VI. The ankle-bone appears by ihadowing a littleunderneath (as in the knees) and the finews there-of mult feem to take beginning from the midft of thefoot-,and to wax bigger as they grow nearer to the toes. VII. Laftly, the fhado ws of the foot mult take placeaccording as reafon and occafion requires, for which(asalfo in all the former precepts) the having of goodprints will be no fmall advantageunto you. CHAP. XII. The way and manner of Shadowing. I. TF it be a furface only,it is belt fhadowed by;draw-JL ing lines either ftraight or oblique, (according asthe fuperficies is) through the better hah thereof. II. If it be in a body, it is a double ihadow, andis tiled when a luperficies begins to forfake your fight,as in Columns and Pillars, where it is double ■ da

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