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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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e fame many timesover and over again, and, it may be, every time to as littlepurpofc •, by the tedioufnefs of which, your ingenuity willbe dulled. III. Be fecureof a right and true draught, thoughyou do it flowly •, what you think may be done intwo or three hours , it will be better to beftow twoor three days upon: by this means ( though you actleifurely, yet you will ad prudently, and) you willboth fooner and better than can be imagined,attain the-pcrfedion of what you defire. IV. Thefe out-fchetchesbeing made, view them dili-Eentl* whether they anfwer your rwrtfrn annarenrly ■-.for the Geftures of the life ought to fhewUemfclveseminently in the firft and rudeft draughts thereof,without which, be fure your work will be faulty. V. Having viewed thefe fchetches, begin to cor redand amend them ( where you find them amifs) andgradatim by adding or diminilhing a little here andthere, as you fee it differ from your pattern, you will-bring it nearer and nearer to the life. - Tbu J>
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Chap. 4. The Art of Drawing. 9 This with a Charcoal yon mayea/ily do) bccanfybil maywipe away what is anufs. V I. ln drawing.after Plaiflcr and emboflal works,choofe a good North light, which letdeicend from .above, not dilating or icatteringit felf too much,b y which you may the more pleafantly fhade yourwork. Jf the Room has a South light; put oiled Paper beforeitbe window, or if you draw by Candle-light, have a Lamajfiaded with oiled paper \ for a Candle will (rrow loweriand lower, which catifes the fliades to change, all whichyyoit avoid in a Lamp. VI I. Then fet your felf down about three times asffar from the Pattern as the Pattern is high •, fo as youreyes in a direct line may view the fame: then with ajplumb line obferve what parts of your Pattern appeartco you, by the extending (freight thereof,and how oneuinderanother they come in light, and accordinglyrmakeyour fundamental fchetches, as we have jitlt be-,febre taught. VIII. In drawing the Mufcles of a human bodyyou mull:

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