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DAN tyj
The Gutters in wood firft prepare a block of the fize and
thicknefs required, and very even and fmooth on the fide to be
cut; the wood of thefe blocks is ufually pear-tree or box, though
the latter is the beft, as being the clofeft and leaft liable to be
worm-eaten.
On this block they draw their defign, with a pen or pencil,
juft as they would have it printed. Thofe who cannot draw
their defign, make ufe of the defign furnifhed them by another,
faftening the paper upon the block with a fort of pafte made of
flower and water with a little vinegar, the ftrokes or lines turned
towards the wood. When the paper is dry, they warn it gent-
ly over with a fponge dipped in water; which done, they take
off the paper by little and little, ftill rubbing it a little firft with
the tip of the finger; till at length there be nothing left on the
block, but the ftrokes of ink that form the defign, which mark
out fo much of the block, as is to be fpared or left ftanding.
The reft they cut off, and take away very curioufly with the
points of very fharp knives, or little chiffels or gravers, accord-
ing to the bignefs or delicacy of the work.
Cutting, in painting, is the laying one ftrong lively colour
over another without any fhade or foftening. The Cutting of
colours has always a difagreeable effect.
D.
DStands for Domenichino of Bologna, a famous painter and
• inventer.
DANGER, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a ftripling
walking the fields, treading upon a fnake, which bites his leg ;
on his right fide is a precipice, and a torrent on the other ; he
leans only upon a weak reed, and is furrounded with lightning
from heaven.—His youth fhews the Danger he is in ; his walking
fhews that men, walking through flowery fields of profperity, fail
into fome calamity unawares ; the reed fhews the frailty of our
life in continual Danger; the lightning, that we are fubject
befides to Danger from heaven.
Henry and 'John DANKERS. Henry was a good landfcape-
painter, and employed by king Charles II. to paint all the fea-
ports of England and Wales, and alfo all the royal palaces,
which he performed admirably well; he was firft bred a graver,
but, upon the perfuafions of his brother John, took to painting;
he ftudied fome time in Italy before he came to England ; he
worked for a great number of our gentry, and had good prices
for what he did, being efteemed the neateft and be ft painter in
Vol. I. N - his
The Gutters in wood firft prepare a block of the fize and
thicknefs required, and very even and fmooth on the fide to be
cut; the wood of thefe blocks is ufually pear-tree or box, though
the latter is the beft, as being the clofeft and leaft liable to be
worm-eaten.
On this block they draw their defign, with a pen or pencil,
juft as they would have it printed. Thofe who cannot draw
their defign, make ufe of the defign furnifhed them by another,
faftening the paper upon the block with a fort of pafte made of
flower and water with a little vinegar, the ftrokes or lines turned
towards the wood. When the paper is dry, they warn it gent-
ly over with a fponge dipped in water; which done, they take
off the paper by little and little, ftill rubbing it a little firft with
the tip of the finger; till at length there be nothing left on the
block, but the ftrokes of ink that form the defign, which mark
out fo much of the block, as is to be fpared or left ftanding.
The reft they cut off, and take away very curioufly with the
points of very fharp knives, or little chiffels or gravers, accord-
ing to the bignefs or delicacy of the work.
Cutting, in painting, is the laying one ftrong lively colour
over another without any fhade or foftening. The Cutting of
colours has always a difagreeable effect.
D.
DStands for Domenichino of Bologna, a famous painter and
• inventer.
DANGER, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a ftripling
walking the fields, treading upon a fnake, which bites his leg ;
on his right fide is a precipice, and a torrent on the other ; he
leans only upon a weak reed, and is furrounded with lightning
from heaven.—His youth fhews the Danger he is in ; his walking
fhews that men, walking through flowery fields of profperity, fail
into fome calamity unawares ; the reed fhews the frailty of our
life in continual Danger; the lightning, that we are fubject
befides to Danger from heaven.
Henry and 'John DANKERS. Henry was a good landfcape-
painter, and employed by king Charles II. to paint all the fea-
ports of England and Wales, and alfo all the royal palaces,
which he performed admirably well; he was firft bred a graver,
but, upon the perfuafions of his brother John, took to painting;
he ftudied fome time in Italy before he came to England ; he
worked for a great number of our gentry, and had good prices
for what he did, being efteemed the neateft and be ft painter in
Vol. I. N - his