Salmon, William: Polygraphice: Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming: In Four Books ... To which is added A Discourse of Perspective and Chiromancy (London, 1675)

The Efiftle
us of Parrhafiut^ and the slatue which
Lyfipfnsmade? How highly did Mna-
[on the Tyrant of the Bleatenfes prize
the Pictures of the Thebean Battel done
by Ariflides ? How did King Nicomedes,
who proffered an unknown sum of mo»
ny to the Gnidians^ for the Venus which
Praxiteles made,admire it ? Besides ma-
ny others too tedious here to be reci-
ted, and sussiciently enough known to
your Lordship, of which to make any
repetition might be accounted pre-
sumption, especially to your Honour±
whose Skill in Art is large, andwhose
Knowledg ofllniversalLearning is not
small, chiessy in that of Hijlory. It is
Honour,as Cicero saith, which gives Be-
ing, Life and Nourilhment to Arts, and
where can that be found more than in
your noble Sels?Presuming therefore of
your Lordthips Assection and that un-
paralleled Vertue, and Heroick Spirit,
which not only lodges in your Honours
Bread, but is alio Hereditary to your
Noble