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

Os Limning, 151
1, ■ 1 i *' - Mt't'
jit to work or limn any curious thing
upon.
VL The (hells holding or contain-
ing your colours, ought to be Horfe-
muscle (hells, which may be got in July
about Rivers sides 5 but. the next to
these are (mall mufcle (hells, or in (lead
thereof little China or glass vessels.

C H A P. XXIV.
Os Preparations sor Limning.
I. [T Ave two (mall glass or China
tl dirties, in either os which mull:
be pure clean water, the one to wash
the pencils in being souls the other to
temper the colours with when there is
occasion.
11. Besides the pencil s vou Limn with 5
a large, clean, and dry pencil, to clean(e
the work srom any kind os dust, that
may fall upon it,which one called Fitch-
Pencils.
HL A (harp Pen-knise to take oss
L 4. hairs