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40O G R A
And To, in all your draughts, the inward affections and difpofi*
tions of the mind may be moft lively exprefled in the outward
action and gefture of the body.
Now, to attain the knowledge of this, you ought moft dili-
gently to obferve the works of feveral famous mafters, and alfo
to follow their examples, who were ufed to delight themfelves
in beholding private perfons; as the actions, poftures, and gef-
tures of wreftlers, fword-fighters, boxers at handy-cuffs, ftage-
players, the alluring glances and geftures of courtezans, and in
malefactors going to execution, to obferve the contracting of
their brows, the motions of their eyes, and the motions of their
whole bodies, in order that they might exprefs them to the life
in their drawings and works.
Take care likewife that you draw with a certain loofenefs,
which is a great excellency in drawing, that is, that the body be
not made {tiff in any part j but that every joint may have its pro-
per bendings, fo that it may with the greater life exprefs the in-
tention, that the figure may not feem lame and the joints ftifF,
as if they were not pliable or capable of bending ; but that every
joint and limb may have its proper freenefs and loofenefs, accord-
ing as it may bcft fuit with and become the pofture in which the
figure is fet.
To make a pajle for an oriental GRANATE. The Gran ate
is very like the carbuncle, for, being both expofed to the fun,
they exhibit the colour of live burning coals, being between red
and yellow, which is the true colour of fire.
There are feveral forts of Granates, both oriental and occiden-
tal, fome deeper, others paler; but the jewellers know how to
make them appear, by fetting them on filver foils.
The way to imitate them is as follows:
Take two ounces of natural cryftal prepared, and fix ounces
of minium, with fixteen grains of manganefe of Piedmont, and
two grains of zaffer prepared ; let the whole be pulverifed and
well mixed together, and being put into a crucible fet them into
the furnace with its cover well luted ; there let them bake with
the fame precautions given as to the paftes for other gems, and
you will have a very fine Granate, as refplendent as the oriental.
But the parte will be yet much fairer, if you take to two ounces
of natural cryftal calcined and prepared fix ounces of vermilion
or minium in fine powder, thirty-five grains of manganefe of
Piedmont prepared, and four grains of prepared zaffer; which,
being well pulverifed, mix together in a crucible, leaving a
greater empty fpace than in the other, by reafon the matter rifes
more than in the others ; then lute the cover well, let it dry,
and put it in the furnace to bake, as is directed as to other artifi-
cial gems, observing the lame circumftances noted on that fub-
And To, in all your draughts, the inward affections and difpofi*
tions of the mind may be moft lively exprefled in the outward
action and gefture of the body.
Now, to attain the knowledge of this, you ought moft dili-
gently to obferve the works of feveral famous mafters, and alfo
to follow their examples, who were ufed to delight themfelves
in beholding private perfons; as the actions, poftures, and gef-
tures of wreftlers, fword-fighters, boxers at handy-cuffs, ftage-
players, the alluring glances and geftures of courtezans, and in
malefactors going to execution, to obferve the contracting of
their brows, the motions of their eyes, and the motions of their
whole bodies, in order that they might exprefs them to the life
in their drawings and works.
Take care likewife that you draw with a certain loofenefs,
which is a great excellency in drawing, that is, that the body be
not made {tiff in any part j but that every joint may have its pro-
per bendings, fo that it may with the greater life exprefs the in-
tention, that the figure may not feem lame and the joints ftifF,
as if they were not pliable or capable of bending ; but that every
joint and limb may have its proper freenefs and loofenefs, accord-
ing as it may bcft fuit with and become the pofture in which the
figure is fet.
To make a pajle for an oriental GRANATE. The Gran ate
is very like the carbuncle, for, being both expofed to the fun,
they exhibit the colour of live burning coals, being between red
and yellow, which is the true colour of fire.
There are feveral forts of Granates, both oriental and occiden-
tal, fome deeper, others paler; but the jewellers know how to
make them appear, by fetting them on filver foils.
The way to imitate them is as follows:
Take two ounces of natural cryftal prepared, and fix ounces
of minium, with fixteen grains of manganefe of Piedmont, and
two grains of zaffer prepared ; let the whole be pulverifed and
well mixed together, and being put into a crucible fet them into
the furnace with its cover well luted ; there let them bake with
the fame precautions given as to the paftes for other gems, and
you will have a very fine Granate, as refplendent as the oriental.
But the parte will be yet much fairer, if you take to two ounces
of natural cryftal calcined and prepared fix ounces of vermilion
or minium in fine powder, thirty-five grains of manganefe of
Piedmont prepared, and four grains of prepared zaffer; which,
being well pulverifed, mix together in a crucible, leaving a
greater empty fpace than in the other, by reafon the matter rifes
more than in the others ; then lute the cover well, let it dry,
and put it in the furnace to bake, as is directed as to other artifi-
cial gems, observing the lame circumftances noted on that fub-