Salmon, William: Polygraphice; Or, The Art of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Colouring and Dying: In Three Books ... (London, 1672)

POLYGRAPH ICE




c H A P. I.

Os Poljigraphiee in General

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I l^^hOLYGRAPHlCE is an
Art, so much imitating Na-
ture, as that by proportion-
al lines with answerable
Colours!, it teacheth to reprefent to the
lise fand that in piano) the sorms os all
corporeal things, with their f efpedlive
passions.
II. It is called in general in Greek
x?*,ou»77>tH 5 in Latine Fi&ura^ and in En-
gl ish the Art of Tainting.
III. It is sevenfold (to wit) m DraW"
B ingy