The EpiJHe Dedicatory.
profesiions am aScholler. Only I am serry that
ourCourtiers and great personages must seek far
and neer for some Dutchman or Italian to draw
their pictures,and invent their devises,our Eng-
lishmen being held for Vaunients. To which end
as well for their sakes who are as yet young pra-
ctitioners 3 as in regard of many young Gentle-
men in this Kingdom, who being naturally incli-
ned hereunto,want fit directions to the attaining
ofthis commendable skill, so many waies neces-
sary, (favoured in times pastofthegreatest Mo-
narches,and of late daies praCtised even by Prin-
ces, and the greatest personages themselves, as
Francis the firlt, King of France^Charles Emanuel
Duke of Savoy, with many others who are re-
ported to have been excellent with the pencili)
I have drawn and collected together the most
true and easy grounds of drawing,mingling and
ordering all manner of water colours for lim-
ming, certain observations for perspeCtive 6c the
light, the manner of annealing in glass See. to-
gether with a Ihort diseourse ofArmory,al which
together with my self (in regard as well of that
duty I owed to your self for many favours to-
wards meat your Chefiam^ as that you are gene-
rally known to be a principall favourer of all skil
and schollership ) I ofser up unto your censure,
of whom most humbly I take my leave from
Richmond.
Who is most ass'ctfiomtely devoted
unto your Worjhip.
henry sence am
profesiions am aScholler. Only I am serry that
ourCourtiers and great personages must seek far
and neer for some Dutchman or Italian to draw
their pictures,and invent their devises,our Eng-
lishmen being held for Vaunients. To which end
as well for their sakes who are as yet young pra-
ctitioners 3 as in regard of many young Gentle-
men in this Kingdom, who being naturally incli-
ned hereunto,want fit directions to the attaining
ofthis commendable skill, so many waies neces-
sary, (favoured in times pastofthegreatest Mo-
narches,and of late daies praCtised even by Prin-
ces, and the greatest personages themselves, as
Francis the firlt, King of France^Charles Emanuel
Duke of Savoy, with many others who are re-
ported to have been excellent with the pencili)
I have drawn and collected together the most
true and easy grounds of drawing,mingling and
ordering all manner of water colours for lim-
ming, certain observations for perspeCtive 6c the
light, the manner of annealing in glass See. to-
gether with a Ihort diseourse ofArmory,al which
together with my self (in regard as well of that
duty I owed to your self for many favours to-
wards meat your Chefiam^ as that you are gene-
rally known to be a principall favourer of all skil
and schollership ) I ofser up unto your censure,
of whom most humbly I take my leave from
Richmond.
Who is most ass'ctfiomtely devoted
unto your Worjhip.
henry sence am