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and brought up under his father. He was a clofe imitator of na-
ture in all his landfcapes; and in his younger days went upon
the Rhine, and other adjacent places, where he drew feveral
pleafant views in water colours.
The Duke of Buckingham, in his way home from France,
pafling through the Netherlands, ftaid fome time at Antwerp,
where meeting with feveral of this matter's works in landfcape,
he was fo well pleafed with them, that he invited him over to
England, and made him his painter, and he did a great number
of thofe pictures for him at Cliveden-houfe.
He alfo performed feveral pieces for the nobility and gentry of
England, amongft whom he was for fome time in vogue.
He alfo drew feveral forts of cattle with good fuccefs, which
he commonly placed in his landfcapes.
He died about fifty years ago in London, and lies buried in
St. James's church, being feventy-three years old.
SYMMETRY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
at perfect age, naked, of fingular beauty, and all her members
are uniform, and correfpond with her beauty; a piece of cloth
goes acrofs her, all fpangled with ftars; a curious piece of ar-
chitecture by her, in one hand is a plumb-line, and compafTes in
the other, going to meafure the ftature of Venus.—Her age
fhews her arrived at her juft proportion ; naked, tofhew that all
the parts ought to correfpond in true proportion; the inftruments
are to meafure the uniformity.
SYMPATHETIC inks are fuch as can be made to appear
and difappear very fuddenly, by the application of fomething that
feems to work by fympathy.
i. Take unfiacked lime two or three parts, and one of yellow
orpiment; reduce them to powder, and mix them, adding to
them fifteen or fixteen times as much water, as you have orpi-
ment ; put them into a glafs bottle or phial, and flop them with
a cork and bladder, and fet it in warm embers, fhaking the phial
now and then for five hours, and then warily decant the clear
part, or rather filtrate it.
In the mean time, burn a piece of cork thoroughly; and, when
it is well inflamed, quench it in common water, or rather in
brandy. It being thus reduced to a friable coal, grind it in fair
water, in which gum has been diffblved, and it will make a li-
quor as black as common ink.
While this is preparing, diflblvea quantity of red lead in three
times as much diftilled or flrong vinegar over warm embers, or
of faccharum faturni in three times the quantity of wrater for
three or four hours, or till the liquor has a fweet tafte. This
liquor will be as clear as common water.
Having prepared the inks as before directed, write what you
would
and brought up under his father. He was a clofe imitator of na-
ture in all his landfcapes; and in his younger days went upon
the Rhine, and other adjacent places, where he drew feveral
pleafant views in water colours.
The Duke of Buckingham, in his way home from France,
pafling through the Netherlands, ftaid fome time at Antwerp,
where meeting with feveral of this matter's works in landfcape,
he was fo well pleafed with them, that he invited him over to
England, and made him his painter, and he did a great number
of thofe pictures for him at Cliveden-houfe.
He alfo performed feveral pieces for the nobility and gentry of
England, amongft whom he was for fome time in vogue.
He alfo drew feveral forts of cattle with good fuccefs, which
he commonly placed in his landfcapes.
He died about fifty years ago in London, and lies buried in
St. James's church, being feventy-three years old.
SYMMETRY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a woman
at perfect age, naked, of fingular beauty, and all her members
are uniform, and correfpond with her beauty; a piece of cloth
goes acrofs her, all fpangled with ftars; a curious piece of ar-
chitecture by her, in one hand is a plumb-line, and compafTes in
the other, going to meafure the ftature of Venus.—Her age
fhews her arrived at her juft proportion ; naked, tofhew that all
the parts ought to correfpond in true proportion; the inftruments
are to meafure the uniformity.
SYMPATHETIC inks are fuch as can be made to appear
and difappear very fuddenly, by the application of fomething that
feems to work by fympathy.
i. Take unfiacked lime two or three parts, and one of yellow
orpiment; reduce them to powder, and mix them, adding to
them fifteen or fixteen times as much water, as you have orpi-
ment ; put them into a glafs bottle or phial, and flop them with
a cork and bladder, and fet it in warm embers, fhaking the phial
now and then for five hours, and then warily decant the clear
part, or rather filtrate it.
In the mean time, burn a piece of cork thoroughly; and, when
it is well inflamed, quench it in common water, or rather in
brandy. It being thus reduced to a friable coal, grind it in fair
water, in which gum has been diffblved, and it will make a li-
quor as black as common ink.
While this is preparing, diflblvea quantity of red lead in three
times as much diftilled or flrong vinegar over warm embers, or
of faccharum faturni in three times the quantity of wrater for
three or four hours, or till the liquor has a fweet tafte. This
liquor will be as clear as common water.
Having prepared the inks as before directed, write what you
would