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 .. . c ± 40 ike Excellency of Book I,. 14* Part I. The Pen and Pencil. 41 SECT. IX. Rules of Symmetry or Proportion to heobferved in Drawing the whole Body of Man orWoman* T?OR your further help in Drawing the fol-1/ lowing Figures, take notice of chefe necefi
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 .. . c ± 40 ike Excellency of Book I,. 14* Part I. The Pen and Pencil. 41 SECT. IX. Rules of Symmetry or Proportion to heobferved in Drawing the whole Body of Man orWoman* T?OR your further help in Drawing the fol-1/ lowing Figures, take notice of chefe necefiaryRules: Begin at the Head, and fo proceed by de-grees, as your pattern directs , and be careful thatyour parallel Joynts, Smews\ or Mufcles9bo dire&lyoppofite; alfo that the Motion of the Body beanfwerable one part to another, and that the partsand limbs of the body have a due fymmetry; nota great Arm, and a fmall Leg; or a fmall HW,anda great Finger, &c. Let not one part be too longfor another. Of all which, you muft know, thatat firft you will be apt to commit many errours,butbe not difheartned -, proceed, and your labour willnot be loft, experience is gained by pra&ice; be butdiiigent,and you will find more eafe than you couldimagine: at firft all things that are attainable feem:difficult; we have a good old faying, Nothing ishard to a willing mind, a
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