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 .. . ng-point,draw over all the out-ftroakes and bounds of thePrincipal fliadows, and it will come off upon thePlate; then with your feveral Scrapers, lightlyfcrapingupon the extreme Lights, and fo gradu-ally all the other ihadows, until you have broughtall th
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 .. . ng-point,draw over all the out-ftroakes and bounds of thePrincipal fliadows, and it will come off upon thePlate; then with your feveral Scrapers, lightlyfcrapingupon the extreme Lights, and fo gradu-ally all the other ihadows, until you have broughtall the drawing of your defign upon the Plate;then take a Proof off, by which means you will beable to go on in the finiftiing of it, although youmuft proof it Three or Four times before you canthoroughly finifti it. How to take off Mezzo-tinto Trints, forPainting on Glafs. YOU muft get your Eeft Looking-glafs, andthe beft Venice Turpentine ; then take yourPrint and lay it in Water for about Two or Threehours; then take it out and lay it flat before a cleanCloth,and warmasmuchoftheTurpentine as^outhink you (hall ufe,and warm the Glafs a little like-wife; then with a large Brufhjay your Turpentineeven all over the Glafs, your Printlying the Rightfide uppermoftjay your Glafs from one fida by de-grees iff frontya. Sc. lib .<fff. Ul-l. rujim. **Jeperalt-s
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