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 antient and modern .. . 34 The Excellency of Book I, SECT. VII. Of the Back, Breafi, fecret Mem*hers, Thighs, Shoulders, &C. HAving fufficiently prattifed the Drawing ofthe feveral Limbs of Man and Woman, asHead, Mouth, Nofe, Hands, Arms, Feet9 anc^Legs ; proceed next to the dra
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 antient and modern .. . 34 The Excellency of Book I, SECT. VII. Of the Back, Breafi, fecret Mem*hers, Thighs, Shoulders, &C. HAving fufficiently prattifed the Drawing ofthe feveral Limbs of Man and Woman, asHead, Mouth, Nofe, Hands, Arms, Feet9 anc^Legs ; proceed next to the drawing of the otherparts of the Body : as the Back, Belly, Shoulders,Breaft, Secrets, and Thighs, therein following theexample of this noble Majter Palmas, in the fol»lowing Figure. Part f. tit Pen an& Pencil. §5. c% The Excellency of Book I. SECT. VIII. Of whole Figures from head to foot* OF whole Figures I have furnifhed you with va-riety of examples; as firft, of a Child ftand-ing backward and forward, which is neceffary tobe beft prattifed, becaufe thefe are the more eafie,being more plump & round than the Body of Man,without that obfervation of the Mufcles and otherparts, which I defire you in a methodical way tcimitate often before you adventure upon the otheiFigures, which are Man and Woman ftanding for-ward, and after that Man and Woman ftandingbackward, as alfo in other poftures: and the fam<order that was at firft propofed about the HeadsHands, and Feet9 &c by touching out every Figunfirft with Charcoal, is exa&Iy to be obferved iithefe Figures alfo, SEC1 fart i. Iht tenant Pencil. 37
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