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L ib. r. Drawing and Limming.
P erfed red, black, blew, yellow, &c. which every
ordinary Painter.may lay, who if they (hould be put
(by mixture of many colours) to make that purple of a
Pigeons neck, or give the perfeft colour but of a ssesh-
ssye, or mallards wing, you {hould see them at thssir
wits end.
In the moneths of June and July,! was wont at my
leisure to walk into the field, and get all manner of
fly es, ssowers, herbs, See, which I either put presentJy
in colours, or kept preserved all the year to imitate
at my pleasure in close boxes.
CHAP. XVII.
Themojt notable absurdities that our Taiitters
ordinarily commit.
He flrfl absurdity is of proportion natural,com- i« of lame?
monly called lamene(Te,that is, when any part nesse.
or member is disproportionable to the whole
body,or seemeth through the ignorance of the Pain-
ter, to be wrefledfrom his natural place and motion: •
as in Feter-borough Minster, you may see Saint Peter
painted,hi head very near,or altogether as big as his
middle : and it is ordinary in country houses to see
horiemen painted, and the rider a great deal bigger
than his horse.
The sicondis of Landtsktp, or Local distance, as I i. Of local!
haveseen painted a Church, and seme halfa mile be- distmce.
yond it the Vicaredge ; yet the Vicars chimney drawn
bigger than the Steeple by a third pare, which being
lesse of it sels, ought also to be much more abated by
the distance.
The third absurdity is of accident of time, that is, 3. Accidents os
when wefashion or attribute the proprieties ofantient csnae,
times to those of ours, or ours to theirs: as not long
ssnee I found painted in an Inne Bethulia beaeged by
X 2 Holopher"<
P erfed red, black, blew, yellow, &c. which every
ordinary Painter.may lay, who if they (hould be put
(by mixture of many colours) to make that purple of a
Pigeons neck, or give the perfeft colour but of a ssesh-
ssye, or mallards wing, you {hould see them at thssir
wits end.
In the moneths of June and July,! was wont at my
leisure to walk into the field, and get all manner of
fly es, ssowers, herbs, See, which I either put presentJy
in colours, or kept preserved all the year to imitate
at my pleasure in close boxes.
CHAP. XVII.
Themojt notable absurdities that our Taiitters
ordinarily commit.
He flrfl absurdity is of proportion natural,com- i« of lame?
monly called lamene(Te,that is, when any part nesse.
or member is disproportionable to the whole
body,or seemeth through the ignorance of the Pain-
ter, to be wrefledfrom his natural place and motion: •
as in Feter-borough Minster, you may see Saint Peter
painted,hi head very near,or altogether as big as his
middle : and it is ordinary in country houses to see
horiemen painted, and the rider a great deal bigger
than his horse.
The sicondis of Landtsktp, or Local distance, as I i. Of local!
haveseen painted a Church, and seme halfa mile be- distmce.
yond it the Vicaredge ; yet the Vicars chimney drawn
bigger than the Steeple by a third pare, which being
lesse of it sels, ought also to be much more abated by
the distance.
The third absurdity is of accident of time, that is, 3. Accidents os
when wefashion or attribute the proprieties ofantient csnae,
times to those of ours, or ours to theirs: as not long
ssnee I found painted in an Inne Bethulia beaeged by
X 2 Holopher"<