Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

An E'Kpo/ition of slours.
my Book called the Gentlemans Exercise3 concerning
the whole Art of Limning and Painting. The Reader,
if he please, may have recourse unto him, for further
satisfa&ion.

CHAP. XIV.
Directions sor Paintings or Colouring os Cuts,
and printed Pi&ures in Water-Colours* .
OF Colours there be seven Species, to wit, White,
Red, Yellow, Green, Blew, Brown, and Black.
White and Black are the extremities, and the parents
of all other Colours ; for Red is an equal mixture of
White and Black, and so is Green: Yellow is two
partsof White,and one of Red, &c. I raighthere en-
ter into a large Discoursej but 1 conceive this sufficient
for the ingenious, and therefore 1 shall passe to th*
exposition of certain Colours, which will not be un-
useful to the young beginner.
An Exposition os Colours.

Abram colour,*.?. bFown.
Auburne or Abborne, i.e,
brown or brown-black.
Cole black. are
Sable black. C expoun*
Velvet black. T* ded in
Pitchyblack. JJ their E-
pethits.
Blanket colour, i. ?. a
light watchet.
Venice blew, i, e, a light
blew.
Lincolne blew,
Coventry blew.

A Prince blew.
Crimson, /.<?. Scarlet,
Cumatical colour , i, ea
blew.
Flessi colour, a certain
mixture os red white.
Gang ran colon r* i. e. di-
vers colours together,
as in a Mallards, or Pi*
geons neck.
Sabell colour, i. e, ssame
colour.
Incarnadine, or ssefli co«
lour,
X 2 ?ea«

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