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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

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get in this māner find out first an O ake or house that hath a great branch of Iuie climing vp by it and with an axe cut it asunder in the midst and then with your axe head bruise both the ends let it stand a month or there abouts at what time you shall take from it a pure fine gum like an oyle which issueth out of the ends take it off handsomly with a knife or spoon and keep it in a viall it is good to put into your gold size and other colors for threee respects first it alaies the smell osthe size secondly it taketh awaie the bubbles that arise vpon your gold size and other colors lastly it taketh awaie the clammines and fatnes from your other colors there is moreouer great vse of it in the confection of pommander 3. Gumme lake Gumme lake is made with the glaire of egges strained often and very short about March or April to which aboute the quantity of a pinte you muste put two spoonful of honey and as much of Gumma Hederae as a hasell nut and foure good spoonefuls of the strongest woort you can come by then straine thē again with a spoong or peece of wool so fine as you can so long til that you see them runne like a fine and cleare oyle keepe it then in a cleane glasse it wil grow hard but you maie resolue it again with a little cleane water as you doe gumme Arabeck it is moreouer an excellent vernish for any picture 4 Gumme Armoniack Take Gumme Armoniack and grind it with the iuice of Garlicke so fine as maye bee to which put 2. or three drops of weake Gumme Arabeck water and temper it so that it bee not too thick but that it may runne well out of your penne and write therewith what you wil and let it drie and when you meane to guild vpon it cut your gold or siluer according to the bignes of the size you haue laid and then set it with a peece of wool in this manner firste breath vpon the size and then laye on your gold vpon it gently taken vp which presse downe hard with your peece of wool and then let it well drie being dried with a fine linnen cloath strike off finely the loose gold then shal you find al that you drew very faire gold and as clean as you haue drawn it though it were as small as any heare it is called gold Armoniack and is taken many times for liquid gold Of guilding or the ordering of gold and siluer in water colors CHAP. 3. YOu maie guild onely with gumme water as I wil shew you make your water good and stiffe and laye it on with your pencil where you woulde guild then take a cushion that hath smooth leather and turn the bottom vpward vpon that cut your gold with a sharp knife in what quantity you will to take it vp draw the edge of your knife finely vpon your tongue that it may be onely wet with which doe but toutch the very edge of your gold it will come vp and you may lay it as you list but before you lay it on let you gumme bee almost drie otherwise it will drowne your gold and being laid presse it downe harde with the skut of an hare afterward burnish it with a dogges tooth or bores tush I call burnisht gold that māner of guilding which wee ordinarily see in old parchment Masse books done by monks and priests who were very expert heerin as also in laying of colors that in bookes of an hundred or two hundred yeares old you may see the colors as beautifull and as fresh as if they were done but yesterday it lieth commonly Embossed that you maie feele it by reason of the thicknes of the ground or size which size is made in this māner Take 3 partes of Bole Armoniack and 4 of fine chalke grind them together as smal as you can with cleane water 3 or 4 times and euery time let it drie see it be clean without grauil or grit then let it be throwghly Drie then take the glaire of egges and straine it as short as water grind then your bole and chalk therwith in the grinding put to a little gum Haederae a little ear wax to the quātitie of a fitch 5 or 6 chiues of saffrō which grind to gether as small as you can possible then put it into an ox horn couered close let it rot in hot horse dung or in the earth for the space of 5 or 6 weekes then take it vp and laie it in the aire for it will haue an ill sauor vse it at your pleasure To set gold or siluer TAKE a peece of your Gūme and resolue it into a stiffe water then grind a shiue of saffron there with and you shal haue a fair gold when you haue set it and you see that it is throroughly drie rub or burnish it with a dogs toothe To make liquid gold or siluer TAke 5 or 6 leaues of gold or siluer and laie it vp on a cleane Porphiry marble stone or pane of glasse and grind it with strong water of gumme Lake and a pretty quantity of greate salte as small as you can and then put it into a cleane vessel or viall that is well glazed and put thereto as much faire water as will fill the glasse or vessell to the end it may dissolue the stiffe water you ground with it that the gold may haue room to go to the bottom let it stand so three or foure houres then powre out that water and put in more vntill you see the gold clean washed after that take clean water which put therto with a little Sal Armoniack great salt so let it stand three or foure daies in some close place thē must you distil it in this māner take a peece of glouers leather that is very thin pick away the skinny side and put your gold therein binding it close thē hāging it vp the Sal Armoniack will fret away and the gold remain behind which take and when you will vse it haue a little glaire water in a shell by you wherin dip your pensill taking vp no more gold then you shall vse Of all sorts of Reds and their Tempering CHAP. IIII. Of Vermilion YOur fairest and most principall Red is Vermilion called in Latine Minium it is a poison and found where great store of quicksiluer is you must grind it with the glayre of an egge and in the grinding put too a little clarified hony to make his colour brighte and perfect Sinaper Lake Sinaper in Latine called Cinnabaris or Synopis of the City Synope in Pontus where it was first inuented maketh a deepe and beautifull red or rather purple almost like vnto a red Rose the best was woont to be made as Dioscorides saith in Libia of Brimstone and quicksiluer burnt a long time to a small quantity and not of the blood of the
Elephant and Dragon as Plinie supposed you shall grind it with Gum Lake and Turnsoile water if you will haue it light put to a little Ceruse and it will make a bright crimson if to diaper put to only Turnsoile water Synaper Top's Grinde your Tops after the same manner you doe your lake they are both of one nature Red Lead Red lead in Latine is called Syricum it was woont to be made of Ceruse burnt which grinde with a quantity of Saffron and stiffe gumme lake for your saffron will make it orient and of a Marigolde colour Turnesoile Turnsoile is made of old linnen ragges died you shall vse it after this manner lay it in a saucer of vineger and set it ouer a chafing dish of coales and let it boyle then take it of and wring it into a shell and put vnto it a little gum Arabeck letting it stand 3 or 4 howrs till it be dissolued it is good to shadow carnations and all yeallowes Roset You shall grind your Roset with Brasill water and it will make you a deepe and a faire purple if you put Ceruse to it it maketh a lighter if you grinde it with Litmose it maketh a faire violet Browne of Spaine Grind your Browne of Spaine with Brasill water and if you mingle it with Ceruse it maketh an horse flesh colour Bole Armoniack Bole Armoniack is but a faint colour the chiefest vse of it is as I haue said in making a size for burnisht gold Of Greenes and their tempering CHAP. V. Greene Bice TAke green Bice and order it as you do your blew bice and in the selfe same manner when it is moiste and not thorough drie you may diaper vpon it with the water of deepe greene Vert-greace Vertgreace is nothing els but the rust of brasse which in time being consumed and eaten with Tallow turneth into greene as you may see many times vpon fowle candlestickes that haue not beene often made cleane wherfore it hath the name in latine Aerugo in French Vert de gris or the hoary greene to tēper it as you ought you must grind it with the iuice of Rue and a little weak gum water you shall haue the purest greene that is if you will diaper with it grind it with the lie of Rue that is the water wherin you haue sod your Rue or Herbgrace and you shall haue an hoary greene you shall diaper or Damaske vpon your vertgreace green with the water of sapgreene Verditure Take your verditure and grind it with a weak gum Arabeck water it is the faintest and palest green that is but it is good to veluet vpon black in any manner of drapery Sappe greene Take Sapp greene and laie it in sharpe vineger all night put to it a little Alom to raise his colour and you shall haue a good green to diaper vpon all other greenes Of Whites and their tempering Venice Ceruse Your principall white is Ceruse called in Latine Cerussa by the Italian Biacea Vitruuius teacheth the making of it which is in this manner The Rhodians saith he vse to take the parings of vines or any other chips and lay them in the bottoms of pipes or hogsheads vpon which they powr great store of vinegar and then laie aboue many sheets of lead and so still one aboue another by rankes till the hogsheads are full then stoppe they vp againe the hogsheads close that no ayr may enter which againe after a certayne time being opened they find betweene the lead and chips great store of Ceruse it hath beene much vsed as it is also now adaies by women in painting their faces at whome Martial in his merry vaine skoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella Solem. Actius saith it beeing throughly burnt it turneth into a faire Red which he calleth Syricum grinde it with the glair of egs that hath lien rotting a month or two vnder the ground and it will make a most perfect white White Lead White Lead is in a manner the same that Ceruse is saue that the Ceruse is refined made more pure you shall grinde it with a weake water of gum Lake and let it stand 3 or 4 daies Roset and Vermilion maketh it a fair Carnation Spanish white There is an other white called Spanish white which you may make your selfe in this manner take fine chalk and grind it with the third part of Alome in faire water till it be thick like pap then roule it vp into balls letting it lie til it be dry when it is drie put it into the fire and let it remayne till it bee red whot like a burning coale and then take it out and let it coole it is the best white of al others to lace or garnish beeing ground with a weake Gumme water of all manner of blewes and their ordering CHAP. 7. Blew Bice TAke fine Bice and grind it vpon a clean stone first with cleane water as smal as you can then put it into an horn and wash it on this manner put vnto it as much faire water as will fill vp your horne and stirre it well then let it stand the space of an houre all the bice shall fall to the bottome and the corruption will fleet aboue the water then powre away the corrupt water and put in more cleane water and so vse it foure or fiue times at the last powr awaie all the water put in clean water of gum Arabeck not to stiffe but sōwhat weak that the bice may fall to the bottō thē powre away the Gum water clean frō the bice put to another clean water and so wash it vp and if you would haue it rise of the same color it is of when it is drie temper it with a weake gum water which also will cause it to rise and swell in the driing if a most perfect blew and of the same color it is being wet temper it with a stiffe water of gumme lake if you would haue it light grind it with a little ceruse or the muting of an hawk that is white if you will haue it a most deepe blew put thereto the water of litmose Litmose blew Take fine litmose and grind it with ceruse and if you put to ouermuch Litmos it maketh a deep blew if ouermuch ceruse and lesse litmos it maketh a light blew you must grind it with weake water of gumme Arabeck Indebaudias Take Indebaudias and grind it with the water of Litmose if you will haue it deepe but if lighte grind it with fine ceruse and with a weake water of gumme Arabeck you shall also grind your English Indebaudias after the same manner which is not fully so good a cullour as your indebaudias isyou must Diaper lighte and deepe vpon it with a good litmose water Florey blew Take Florey blew and grinde it with a little fine Roset and it will make a deep violet and by putting in a quantity of Ceruse it wil make a light