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Barrow, John [Hrsg.]
Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested: Illustrated with Fifty-six Copper-Plates. In Two Volumes (Band 1) — London, 1758

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4. To imitate glory with a great {Lining light of a yellowifh
colour or the fun-beams, you muft ufe mafticot or faffron mixed
with red lead, and heightened with fhell gold or the like.

5. A cloudy fky is imitated with pale bice, (hading the clouds
afterwards with a mixture of feveral colours ; a fair Iky requires
clouds of a greater fhade, with purple.

6. The clouds in a rainy fky mull: be fhaded with indigo and
lake; in a night fky, with black and dark blue, fmoaky, making
a blaze with purple, minium, and cerufs.

7. The clouds, at fun rifing or fetting, muft be made with
minium, cerufs, and purple, making fcattering ftrokes under-
neath the clouds with minium and mafticot, or minium and
faffron ; fo that the fcattering upwards may appear faint, and
fomething fiery below alar off, near the landfcape.

8. Make a fiery fky with pale blue, fmoothing it downwards,
which muft be afterwards mingled with a ftrong red lead mixed
with cerufs, making long diminutive ftrokes like the fun-beams
upon the blue fky, with which let fall fome purple ftrokes, much
like the faid beams ; then (weeten one into another with a foft
brufh-pencil, wet in gum-water, not too ftrong.

g. Make a fair fky, by ufing fair bice alone, and tempering
it by degrees with more and more white ; fmoothing one into
the other from above downwards, and fhading it as you think
proper, and as nature requires.

Of dying CLOVE Colour. Take water, a fufficient quantity;
fuftic, twenty-four ounces; cruft-madder and nut-galls, of each
a pound ; red wood ground, four ounces ; boil them, and enter
twenty yards of broad-cloth ; boil it two hours with a ftrong heat,
handling it; then put in copperas, half a pound; oak fhavings,
four ounces ; enter your cloth again, handle it well, boil it half
an hour, and fo cool it; if you would have the colour fadder,
put in more copperas. Or,

Take water, a fufficient quantity; joiners oak fhavings, four
pounds; madder, two pounds; red wood and walnut-tree leaves,
of each four ounces ; boil them well, and enter twenty yards of
cloth, which handle well, and boil it three hours, ftill handling
it; then take it out and air it, adding, if need requires, a little
more water ; then take copperas, thirty ounces ; enter your cloth
again, take it out and cool it, and fadden it, if need requires,
with more copperas.

Don Giulo CLO VIO, born in 1498, fcholar of Giulo Roma-
no, lived at Rome and Hungary; excelled in miniature, hiftory,
and portraits; died in the year 1578, aged eighty years.

Herman CQBLENT has put this mark under the
four Evangelifts, and other plates; one of David., of
Judith, and Lucretia ; and afterwards Adrianus Hu-
bertus ufed this mark with excudit.

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