item: #1 of 6
          id: A09192
      author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
       title: The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent.
        date: 1606
       words: 19096
      flesch: 66
     summary: The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent. The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent.
    keywords: art; bee; blew; ceruse; chap; colours; drawing; face; faire; fine; glasse; gold; good; greene; grind; gumme; hath; haue; head; let; light; line; making; manner; painting; picture; red; selfe; shadow; shadowing; shew; time; vnto; vpon; vse; water; white; worke
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: A09198
      author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
       title: 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 colours, to be vsed in lymming, painting, tricking, and blason of coates, and armes, with diuers others most delightfull and pleasurable obseruations, for all yong gentlemen and others. As also seruing for the necessarie vse and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters and caruers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthie peeces, either for borders, architecks, or columnes, &c. By Henrie Peacham Master of Artes.
        date: 1612
       words: 45638
      flesch: 70
     summary: ●●iades or the Nymphes of f●ouds . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the seed of Kernel of a Pomgra●●e , with which in times past they did vse to 〈…〉 colour : Aristophanes saith , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for to picke out the graines of kernels of a Po●gra●ate .
    keywords: aboue; aristotle; armes; azure; b ●; beames; bee; blacke; blew; bodie; ceruse; chap; colour; cosm; crosse; drawing; drawne; dutch; earth; eud; euery; eye; faire; fi ●; fine; forme; forth; french; g ●; generall; giuen; glasse; gold; greene; grinde; gules; gumme; hand; hath; haue; head; hee; l ●; lake; latine; le ●; lead; left; let; light; like; line; little; long; m ●; making; manner; nature; neuer; o ●; ouer; owne; p ●; peeces; places; reason; red; said; saith; seene; selfe; shadow; shew; siluer; sunne; th ●; thing; time; trees; v ●; vnder; vnto; vpon; vse; water; white; wi ●; word; yealow; ● d; ● e; ● h; ● ke; ● n; ● r; ● s; ● st; ● t; ● y; ● ●
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: A28779
      author: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
       title: A book of dravving, limning, vvashing or colouring of maps and prints: and the art of painting, with the names and mixtures of colours used by the picture-drawers. Or, The young-mans time well spent. In which, he hath the ground-work to make him fit for doing anything by hand, when he is able to draw well. By the use of this work, you may draw all parts of a man, leggs, armes, hands and feet, severally, and together. And directions for birds, beasts, landskips, ships, and the like. Moreover, you may learn by this tract, to make all sorts of colours; and to grinde and lay them: and to make colours out of colours: and to make gold and silver to write with. How also to diaper and shadow things, and to heighthen them, to stand off: to deepen them, and make them glitter. In this book you have the necessary instruments for drawing, and the use of them, and how to make artificiall pastels to draw withall. Very usefull for all handicrafts, and ingenuous gentlemen and youths. By hammer and hand all arts doe stand.
        date: 1652
       words: 15615
      flesch: 70
     summary: ' The proportion of the Hand 〈◊〉 of 3 measures of the Nose , of 〈◊〉 : you are to make the three equall pricked squares , marked perpendicularly 1. 3. 2. the lowest of which 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 into 2 〈◊〉 parts therby to adIoyne a halfe making a third part unto that base marked also 〈◊〉 . which we give 〈◊〉 the Balle of the Thumb and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neare unto 〈◊〉 . 〈◊〉 take a ruler and a black-lead plummet made an even square ; now , you must divide 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into divers equal parts with a pair of compasses , and draw lines with a 〈◊〉 and black lead plummet quite over the picture , make also other lines acrosse , so that 〈◊〉 picture may be divided into equall squares , then take a faire paper and make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon it as there is in the picture ; you may make them as little as 〈◊〉 will , but be sure they are equall in number with those in the Picture , having 〈◊〉 drawne 〈◊〉 the picture and paper into squares ; take a black-lead pen and draw the picture by little and little , passing from square to square , and in what part of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 picture lies , in that same square put the drawing , and in the same place of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon the paper untill you have finished the whole , then draw it over with a pen , in which second drawing of it over you may easily mend any fault ; when it is 〈◊〉 it over with the crumme of white bread , and it will take off all the black - 〈◊〉 stroakes , and your draft onely will remaine faire upon the paper .
    keywords: black; blew; body; colour; draw; drawing; face; green; lead; paper; red; use; water; white
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: A39003
      author: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
       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 ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...
        date: 1668
       words: 26688
      flesch: 79
     summary: With this Water wet over your Pictures that you intend to colour , for it will keep the Colour from sinking into the Paper , and it will add a lustre unto the Colours , and make them shew fairer ; and it will make them continue longer without fading : you must let the Paper dry of it self after you have wetted it , before you lay on there Colours , of before you wet it again ; for some Paper will need wetting four or five times . Of Colours used in Limning , their names , and how to order them .
    keywords: black; chap; colours; copper; drawing; face; graver; green; ground; gum; lake; lead; light; page; picture; plate; red; sect; shadows; use; water; white; work
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: A41260
      author: Browne, Alexander, fl. 1660-1677.
       title: The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ...
        date: 1660
       words: 16346
      flesch: 62
     summary: Dark shades in mens Faces ] India-Lake and Pink mixt . Therefore I say upon such occasions , the Body or part of the Body must be made to decline and foreshorten , according to that proportion that the Eye doth guess of it ; therefore be sure to observe your exact distances one from another , how farre the one is distant from the other ; you must observe also how much one part of the Body sticks out beyond the other ; be carefull when you draw a naked Figure to draw nothing hard , but to shadow it fine and soft as possible you can , and not to draw the out-Circumferences sharp or stiff , but as loose as possible .
    keywords: aqua; black; colour; draw; drawing; face; fortis; ground; head; plate; use; water; wax; white; work
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: A94194
      author: Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
       title: Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;
        date: 1658
       words: 37423
      flesch: 74
     summary: Th●odore Gaza caught one of these Nereïdes in Grece ; and in Zeland , was another taught to spinne ; so sayes Alexander of Alexan●●ia , and some others that have seen Monsters , Chimeraes Hippotames , and others such , which Heraulds undertake , to bestow upon Gentlemans Buryings . 68 Etsi Se nescit quod senescit tamen cupit diss●●●i . 1658 GRAPHICE .
    keywords: art; beauty; black; blew; body; colours; draw; eye; eyes; face; fair; fancie; figures; fine; gold; grace; green; ground; hand; hath; landskip; lead; life; light; man; manner; master; mind; nature; painter; painting; pen; pensill; picture; piece; proportion; red; self; set; shadows; shell; silver; stone; temper; things; time; use; water; way; white; work; working; ● ●
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