Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . 55, or gumeither ofdry, and ^ake that«^n a mul- -jillolveJ, >k a httle— they are^hat there ave vveli nd hard-j ivory, or Jit. fcription. I. ^ny in the ^ame into ^ ipe with iiing, inHe ac- s correct y in thehis pof- nt of his ^ilmoft in ,:!y Aeetnefs, rift, and i/plexion ; : painter, id equal- , ^ draughtst ^luable of v^ larles 11, and 63d|i{t, railedI Antwerp,iis draw-1 the year mous co-pier. %^. L E M 55 To gild Leaxher. Take glair of the whites of cgas, or gumwater, and


Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ..: illustrated with fifty-six copper plates . 55, or gumeither ofdry, and ^ake that«^n a mul- -jillolveJ, >k a httle— they are^hat there ave vveli nd hard-j ivory, or Jit. fcription. I. ^ny in the ^ame into ^ ipe with iiing, inHe ac- s correct y in thehis pof- nt of his ^ilmoft in ,:!y Aeetnefs, rift, and i/plexion ; : painter, id equal- , ^ draughtst ^luable of v^ larles 11, and 63d|i{t, railedI Antwerp,iis draw-1 the year mous co-pier. %^. L E M 55 To gild Leaxher. Take glair of the whites of cgas, or gumwater, and with a brufh rub over the Leather with either ofthem, and then lay on the gold or filver ; let them be dry, andburnifh them. To drefs or cover Leather Tvith fdver or gold. Take thatwhich is called brown red, and grind it on a (tone with a mul-let, adiing water and chalk; and, when the latter is didblved,rub, or lightly dawb the Hcins over with it, till they look a littlewhitifli; and then lay on the leaf filver or gold, before they arcquite dry; laying the leaves a little over each other, that thereinay not be the leaft part omitted ; and when they have wellcloicd with the Leather, and are fufficiently dried on and hard-ened, rub them over with a polifher made of fmooth ivory, orof the fore-tooth of a horfe, and it will appear vcrv brijht. LEG, a part of the body too well known to need the manner of drawing Legs, feet, &c. See Plate VI. Sir Peter LELY, was born in Wcftphalia in Germany in th


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