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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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of the Jaid leaf, with every veinthereof fo exatlly cxprefl, as being lively coloured it willfeem to be truly natural. CHAP. XVII. Of Landslip. I. T Andskip is that which exprcfleth in lines thei_^ perfect vifion of the earth, and all things there-upon, placed above the horizon, as towns, villages,cailles, promontories,monntains,rocks,valleys, mines,rivers, woods, forcfts, chafes, trees, houies and allother buildings, both beautiful and ruinous. II. Firft, Always cxprefs a fair horizon, fnewingthe heavens cloudy or clear, raore or iefs accordingto the occafion; and if you exprefs the Sun, let it be-either as rifing or fetting, and as it were behind or over fome hill or mountain. Tne Moon and Stars are feldotn or never depilled, un-lefs it be in reprefentation of twilight 7 becaufe all things arefuf f»dto • Ceen by dav. III. Secondly, If youexprefs the Sun,make his lighttoreiiedt apon aii the trees, hills, mountains, rocks,or buildings •, madingthe contrary fide, after wich manner
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Chap. 17. Of Landskip. 31 manner alfo fhadow clouds, mifts , and the like :making the fhadows to fall all one way. I V. Thirdly, be very careful to augment or leflenevery thing proportionably to their diitance from theeye, making them either bigger or leiTer. V. In exprefling things at large diftances, as ten ,twenty or thirty miles off-, where the object is hardto be difcerned, as whether it be Temple, Caftle ,Houfe or the like •, (hew no particular figns thereof,or any eminent diftinction; but rather as weakly ,faintly, and confufedly as the eye judgeth of it. V 1. If Landskips be laid in Colours, the fartheryou go, the more you muft lighten it with a thinand airy blew, to make it feem as if it were afar off,beginning at firft: with a dark green, fo drivingit by degrees into a blew , according to the di-itance. VII. Make your Landskip to ihoot (as it were)away, one part lower than another, making theneareft hill or place higheft , and thofe that arefarther off, to moot away under

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