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)

Cap. 7. Drawing the Face of a Man. 15

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CHAP. VII,
Of Drawing the Face os a M,wt
J. J N drawing of the Face you areflrst to obstrve its
I motion whether upwards, downwards,forwards,
.or side ways s whether it be long or round, fat or lean
great or little.
For is it be fat-, the cbeekj mil seem to [well: hs\wu
the jaw-bones will jiicl^ out, and the checks sall inh but
is neither too sat nor too lean , it mil be sor the mull
sart round.
il. Touch lightly the features where the eyes,
mouth, nose, arid chin should stand, ( having fir st.
drawn the cirle or oval of the Face) then make a
stroak down from that place of the forehead whi.h
is even with the chin , coming down where you
should place the middle or tip of the nose,and middle
of the mouth , which stroak muss be made straight
<^own in a full right Face, but arched or oval in an
oblique Face, leaning that way towards which the
Face doth turn: then cross the stroak about the mid-
dle of the eyes, either with a straight line in a right
Face.or with a Curved either upwards or downwards
according to the present a&ion or posturc of the
Face : then make another answerablc to that, where
the end of the nose should come, and another fpr the
mouth that it be not made crooked.
This Cross is difficult to be understpod in ph-
np \ but upon a Face made upon a solid body, in form
or (hape of an Egg, the several variations of the said
gjsQp are moil excellently demonstrated; and from
B 4 here?