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)

io6 ' Poiygraphkes. Lib.2.
CHAP. XXXI.
The [urn of the Observations os Limning to
the life in general,
I. T E T the Table be prepared very exact by the
!__> fifth rule of the twenty third Chapter of the
second Book.
II« Let the ground be of ssefli colour, tempering it
according to the complexion to be painted.
III. It it be a fair complexion, mix a good quan-
tity of Red and White Lead together somewhat
thick.
IV. If swarfhy or brown, mix with the former a
little sine Masticot or Englith Oker, or both, always
observing that your ground be fairer than the com-
plexion painted.
For sairness may be fa adore ed or darkened at pleasure i
but is it be sad or darkj you. can never heighten it-> sor in
Jjmhing the picjure is always wrought down to its exass
co hur.
V. Lay the ground upon the Card or Tablet, with
a larger pencil than ordinary free from spots, scratches
of the pencil, or dull, and as even as potlible may be ;
and let the colour be rather thin and waterish than too
thick, doing it very quick and_ nimbly with two or
three dashes of the pencil.
VI. This done, prepare your (hadows in order, by
the seventh rule of the four and twentieth Chapter os
the second Book.
VII. Then draw the out-lines of the face with Laktj
end .white mingled together* very fine ■> so that if you
(hould