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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09192	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.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1606 (1606)	STC 19500; ESTC S106084	36,660	77

a reasonable proportion which though you hit not iustly you shall come very neere hauing drawne the head bring from vnder the throat the brest line downe to the legs there stay and begin at the pineon to make the wing which being ioined with the back line is presently finished the eie legs and traine must be the last and as I told you before in beasts let the farther leg euer be shortest the feathers as the hayre in beasts must take their beginning ●t the head very small and in fine rankes fall backward greater and greater as this your example sheweth Of flowers flies c. For flowers flies and such like I wil leaue them being things of smal moment to your own discretion counselling you at your leasure when you walke abroad into the fields to gather and-keep them in little boxes vntill you shall haue occasion to vse them To draw a flower begin it ab vmbone or the bosse in the midst as in a Rose there is a yealowe tuft which being first made draw your lines equally diuided frō thence to the line of your compas which you are first to giue and then the worst is past You may shew your flower either open and faire in the bud laden with deawe and wette wormeaten the leaues dropt away with ouerripenes c and as your flower so first draw rudely your leaues making them plaine with your coale or lead before you giue them their vaines or Iaggednesse For Butterflies Brees wasps grashoppers such like which wee call Insecta most of them are easie to be drawne and not hard to be laid in colours because the colours of many of them are simple and without composition as perfect red black blew yellow c which euerye ordinary painter may laie who if they should bee put by mixture of many colours to make that purple of a pigeons neck or giue the perfect colour but of a Daw or Iay you should see them at their wits end In the moneths of Iune and Iuly you may gather of all manner of flies which you may preserue all the yeere eyther in close boxes or sticking them with a pinne seuerally vpon small papers Butterflies are where store of Thistles and Lauender is your Brees by ponds and Riuers sides Notable absurdities to be auotded in draught CHAP. XV. THE first absurdity is of proportion Naturall commonly called lamenesse that is when any part or member is disproportionable to the whole body or seemeth thorough the Ignorance of the painter to be wrested from his naturall place and motion As in the roofe of the Quire in Peter-borough Minster you may see Saint Peter painted his head very neere or altogether as bigge as his middle and it is ordinary in country houses to see horsemen painted and the rider a great deale bigger then his horse The second is of Landtskippe or Local distance as I haue seene painted a Church and some halfe a mile beyond it the vicaredge yet the Vicars chimney drawne bigger then the steeple by a third parte which being lesse of it selfe ought also to bee much more abated by the distance The third absurdity is of accident of time that is when wee fashion or attribute the proprieties of ancient times to those of ours or ours to theirs As not long since I founde painted in an Inne Bethulia besieged by Holophernes where the painter as if it had beene at Ostend made his East and West batteries with great ordinance small shot playing from the walls when you know that ordinance was not inuented of two thousand yeers after The fourth is in expressing passion or the disposition of the minde as to draw Mars like young Hippolitus with an amiable or effeminate countenaunce or Venus like an Amazon or that same hotspurd Harpalice in Virgil this proceedeth of too sencelesse and ouercold a iudgement The fift is of Draperie or attire in not obseruing a decorum in garments proper to euery seuerall condition and calling as not giuing to a King his Robes of Estate with their proper furres and linings To Religious persons an habite fitting with humilitie and contempt of the world A notable example of this kinde I found in a Gentlemans hall which was King Salomon sitting in his throne with a deepe lac'd gentlewomans Ruffe and a Rebatoe about his neck vppon his head a blacke veluet Cap with a white feather the Queene of Sheba kneeling before him in a loose bodied gowne and a French-hood The sixt and last of shadowing as I haue seen painted the flame of a candle and the light therof on one side shadowed 3 parts when there ought to haue bin none at all because there is vndequaque lumen which may cause a shadow but take none THE Second booke intreating of the true ordering of all manner of water colors and painting vpon glasse CHAP. 1. HAVING hitherto as plainelie as I could giuen you those directions I haue thoughte moste necessary for drawing with the pen I will shewe you next the righte mingling and ordering of your colors that after you can draw indiffernt well for before I woulde not haue you know what colors meaneth you may with more delighte apparrell your worke with the liuely and naturall beauty and first of the choise of your grinding stone and pencills I like best the porphyrie white or greene Marble with a muller or vpper stone of the same cut verie euen without flawes or holes you may buy them in London of those that make toombs they will laste you youre life time wearing very little or nothing some vse glasse but many times they gather vp their colours on the ground others slates but they with wearing though neuer so hard at first will kill all colours you may also make you a mullar of a flat pibble by grinding it smooth at a grindstone if you doe it handsomly it is as good as the best your great muscle shells commonly called horse muscles are the best for keeping colors you may gather them in Iuly about riuer sides the next to these are the small muscle shels washt and kepte very cleane Choose your pencils by their fastnes in the quils and their sharp points after you haue drawne and wetted them in your mouth you shall buy them one after another for eight or ten pence a dozen at the Apothecaries Of the Seuerall Gummes that are vsed in grinding of water colors CHAP. 2. Gumme Arabick THE first and principall is gumme Arabick choose it by the whitenes clearenes the britlenes of it being broken betweene your teeth for then it is good take it and lay it in very faire water vntill it bee quite resolued and with it grind your colors you may make it thinne or thick as all other gummes at your pleasure by adding taking away the water you put to it 2 Gumma Hederae or of the luie There is an other verie excellent gumme that proceedeth from the Iuie which you shal