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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find In the Elephant, Cow, Bear, or Hog, as being
beasts heavy and ssoathfull by nature. Moreover wan-
ting that finess of coat or hide, so that you shall escape
a great trouble in (hewing veins, knitting of joynts,
with the eminency almost of every bone in them which
you h^ve in a Horse and Grey-hound. Now for the
manner of drawing these or any ether beast whatsoe-
verj begin with your Lead or Coal, ( as before I told
you, and gave you a generall rule ) at the forehead,
drawing downward the nose, mouth, upper and nea-
ther chap, ending your line at t he throat, then search-
ingit again where you began, from the forehead over
the head, ears, and neck : continuing it till you have
given the full compass of the buttock, but I will give
you an example.

I begin in this Lion my sir/!
stroke at A, bringingin down
to B, making the nose, mouth,
and neather chap with one line,
as you see there 1 rest; then
fetch I that line forward be-
hind by C, making the com-
pass of his mane by pricks with
my pen ( because if I /hould
make a line, I could not make
it jagged ) then bring I the
back down to the tail to D, lea-
ving a little space for its I con-
tinue my line from thence to
Ej or the heel, where I rest :
then begin I again at B, and
making the brest with the eminency thereof I stay at
F, bringing out his near fore-foot, which I fini/h: then
begin I at G, not stirring my hand till I come to the
foot or paw atH, where I fini/h it quite at E, or the
heel. I next draw from his belly two stroks at I and K:
I make the other leg behind, then the right fore-foot
i/Tuing;