Salmon, William: Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy (London, 1675)

140 Polygraph ices. Lib. 3.

chap* ii.
Of Painting in Oyl, and the Materials
thereof.
Ainting in Oyl is nothing but the work or Art
of Limning performed with colours made up
or mixed with Oyl.
II. The Materials of Painting are chiessy Seven, i.
the Easel. 2. the Pallet. 3. The. Straining Frame.
4. the f rimed cloaxh. 5. Pencils. 6. the Stay. 7.
Colours.
III. the Easel is a Frame made of wood ( much
like a Ladder ) with sides ssat, and full of holes, to
put in two pins to set your work upon higher or low-
er at pleasure j something broader at bottom than at
the top : on the backside whereof is a slay, by which
you may set the Easel more upright or Hoping
IV. sbc Pallet is a thin piece os wood, ( Peartree or
Walnut) a foot long, and about ten inches broad, al-
most like an Egg, at the narrowestend of which is
made an hole to put in the thumb of the left hand,
near to which is cut a notch, that so you may hold
the Pallet in your hand. Its use is to hold and temper
the Colours upon.
V. The Streimng Frame is made of wood, to which
with nails is fastned the Primed cloath, which is to be
Painted upon. * .
these ought to he os severalsiz.es according to the big"
ness oj the cloath.
VI. The Primed cloath is that which is to be Pain-
fed upon ; and is thus prepared,
take