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)

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The second is three quarter
faced, as our Flanders and
ordinary Pictures are, that is
when one part of the face is
hid by a quarter, as thus:


The third is onely half fa. H,ls
ced, as you lee the Pictures
of Philip and Mary upon a
twelve pence, or as the Ctsars
Head,
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For draught of a full face
you must bear ia memory, and
narrowly observe the breadth
of the forehead, and the coni-
passeofboth the cheeks, all
which are composed of two
lines, as thus:
And be careful to give as
precise an evennesie to one
side as to the other j causing
both your lines to meet at the
tipofthe chin: your Diameter guideth you for the
even placing (as I said) of nose and mouth,your other
line for the justopposition of the eyes between which
in distance for the nose, alwayes leave the space of
an eye,
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