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

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CHAP. IV.
Os Drawing the sace os a Man,
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I.TN drawing os the sace you are first
J_ to oblerve its motion whether up-
wards, downwards, sorwards,, or side-
5 whether it be long or round, fat
or lean, great or little.
For if it he sat^ the cheeks will seem
to fwell: if lean^ the jaw hones willsiic^
out', and the cheekj fall in 3 hut is neither
too fat, nor too lean^ it will he for the moli
fart round,
I h Touch lightly the seatures where
the eyes, mouth, nofe, and chin fliould
ftand, (having sirft drawn the circle
or oval of the face ) then make a ftroak
down from that place of the forehead
which is even with the chin, coming
down where you mould place the mid-
dle or tip of the noie, and middle of the
mouth, which stroak muft be made
straight down in a sull right face, but
arche *