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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 ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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s, bending and fomewhat wrink-ling about the top of the Nofe, &c. SECT. II. To draw a fore-right Face. MAke the form of a perfect Oval divided intothree equal parts by two Lines ; in the firftpart place the Eyes, in the (econd part the Noftrils,and in the third part the Mouth. Note, that the Eyes muft be diftant one fromthe other the length of one of the Eyes, and thattheir inner corners be perfectly over the out-fideof theNoftrils. SECT 1 J.f.6 / c/z uwu rc(<l< SECT. III. To draw an Up-right Head. TTTHich is made with three Lines equal everyW way, either upwards, downwards, higheror lower ; and that rauft be divided as the formerinto three equal parts, as in the Example. SECT. IV. Of the inclining and ForerJJjortned Face. THis is plainly feen by the Lines, how they con-cord together, and you may with facilitydraw in their proper places, the NGfe,Mouth, andother parts with a little praflice, and obferving dili-gently the Example following. B 4 In 94 The excellency of Boos, i
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Part I. The Pert and Pencil. 25 In thefe Forms you mult be very perfect, it be-ing a Rule that in moft Faces you may have occafi-on to make ufe of: for of all the parts of Mans bodythe Face is the moft difficult. But having got theProportions with their Meafures, you will be able(which way foever a Face turns) to form it out,whatever proportion your Face is, you are to imi-tate, fo muft your out-ftroke be formed, whetherlong, round, fat, or lean. Becaufe prefidents are moft ufeful, I have herethought good to give you the forms of feveral Eyesmore at large, by which you may with more eafeknow the truth of their Proportions. As alfo Ears,which are exactly to be known; andthen the forms of feveral Nofes and Mouths i allwhich are taken from eminent Matters, as Palmaand others. \Jn the following Page.) SECT. x^c xcwency oj Book h

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