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ligures'be fmall, and the ground either .vellum or paper, it is not
called Miniature, but vvalning.
The colours for Miniature may be mixed up with water of
gum arabic, or gum tragacanth.
Though, in treating of other methods of painting, -in divers
places of thefe volumes, much has been faid that may be appli-
cable to this method of painting in Miniature ; yet i ili-all never-
thelefs fpecify the characterises of this kind of painting in par-
ticular.
i. It is in its nature more delicate than any of the ether forts,
.2. It requires to be fcen near at hand.
g. It cannot well be-executed but in fmall.
4, It is performed on vellum or ivory.
5. The colours are moiflened with gum water only.
To fucceed well in your attempts this way, you fhould know
how to draw very well; but, as moft who concern themfelves in
this art are but feldom (killed in drawing, yet would have the plea-
sure of painting without the trouble of learning to draw, in which
little prGgrefs can be made, without time and much practice, fome
contrivances have been found to fupply the defect in this point, by
which a perfon is enabled to draw without knowing -how to do it
xvithout them.
'The firft is called calking. To do which, you mud blacken
the backfide of the print or drawing you dehgi: to copy-, and,
■having lightly brufhed off the dufty particles, to prevent their
adhering to, and fouling the clean vellum you defigri to ufe,
lay your original on the vellum, and faftemit thereto with pins ;
•or.if, inftead of the backfide of the print or drawing itfelf, you
bhcken'only one fide of a fair piece of paper, and put this paper
between the print or drawing and your clean vellum ; then with
a blunted pin or needle trace out the principal ffrokes of the print
or drawing, the outlines and folds of the draperies, and whatever
elfe need to be diftinguifhed ; bearing upon the pin or needle hard,
.enough to leave the traces thereof on the vellum beneath.
O
•Pveducrion is another way, proper tor thole who are not flai-
led in drawing, yet notwithftanding would copy a picture, or
other piece that cannot be calked. It is done thus: You muff di-
vide the whole piece into many fmall and equal fquares, which
you are to make with fmall-coal if the piece be light, and with
chalk if the piece be dark, that, in either cafe, your fquares may
be the more confpicuous; then you mult make the fame number
of fquares, and of the fame bignefc, upon paper to draw upon;
for, if you undertook to do it at once upon vellum, as you might
fail in the firft attempt, you would run the hazard of fpoihna:
your vellum by falfe ffrokes ; but, the whole being duly adjufbd
■upon paper, we calk it upon vellum, as is laid above. The ori-
H 3 gmal
101
ligures'be fmall, and the ground either .vellum or paper, it is not
called Miniature, but vvalning.
The colours for Miniature may be mixed up with water of
gum arabic, or gum tragacanth.
Though, in treating of other methods of painting, -in divers
places of thefe volumes, much has been faid that may be appli-
cable to this method of painting in Miniature ; yet i ili-all never-
thelefs fpecify the characterises of this kind of painting in par-
ticular.
i. It is in its nature more delicate than any of the ether forts,
.2. It requires to be fcen near at hand.
g. It cannot well be-executed but in fmall.
4, It is performed on vellum or ivory.
5. The colours are moiflened with gum water only.
To fucceed well in your attempts this way, you fhould know
how to draw very well; but, as moft who concern themfelves in
this art are but feldom (killed in drawing, yet would have the plea-
sure of painting without the trouble of learning to draw, in which
little prGgrefs can be made, without time and much practice, fome
contrivances have been found to fupply the defect in this point, by
which a perfon is enabled to draw without knowing -how to do it
xvithout them.
'The firft is called calking. To do which, you mud blacken
the backfide of the print or drawing you dehgi: to copy-, and,
■having lightly brufhed off the dufty particles, to prevent their
adhering to, and fouling the clean vellum you defigri to ufe,
lay your original on the vellum, and faftemit thereto with pins ;
•or.if, inftead of the backfide of the print or drawing itfelf, you
bhcken'only one fide of a fair piece of paper, and put this paper
between the print or drawing and your clean vellum ; then with
a blunted pin or needle trace out the principal ffrokes of the print
or drawing, the outlines and folds of the draperies, and whatever
elfe need to be diftinguifhed ; bearing upon the pin or needle hard,
.enough to leave the traces thereof on the vellum beneath.
O
•Pveducrion is another way, proper tor thole who are not flai-
led in drawing, yet notwithftanding would copy a picture, or
other piece that cannot be calked. It is done thus: You muff di-
vide the whole piece into many fmall and equal fquares, which
you are to make with fmall-coal if the piece be light, and with
chalk if the piece be dark, that, in either cafe, your fquares may
be the more confpicuous; then you mult make the fame number
of fquares, and of the fame bignefc, upon paper to draw upon;
for, if you undertook to do it at once upon vellum, as you might
fail in the firft attempt, you would run the hazard of fpoihna:
your vellum by falfe ffrokes ; but, the whole being duly adjufbd
■upon paper, we calk it upon vellum, as is laid above. The ori-
H 3 gmal