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)

Chap. 2 5. Making of Vcwnijhes. 17 s

you must besure to do all over, for else the varnim
will sink through.
V. Having thus prepared your work go to laying on
your colours according to the former directions suit-
ing them, as near as may be, to the lise of every thing.
VI. The Picture being painted, you may with size
(as at the fourth Section of the nineteenth Chapter of
this BookJ paste your Maps or Pictures upon cloth,
thus: wet the meet of cloth therein, wring it out,
and strain it upon a Frame, or nail it upon a wall or
board, and so paste your Maps or Pictures thereon.
VII. Lastly, if the Picture be to be varnilhed, ha-
ving thus fixed it into its proper Frame, then varnish
it with a proper varnish ( by the following rules.) and
the work will be fully finistied.
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CHAP. XXV.
Os the making of V&rriisoes,
I, T 7~4rniJhsor painting in Oyl.
V Take Mastich two ounces, oyl of Turpentine
one ounce i put theMastich in powder into the oyl,
and melt it over the fire,letting it boil little or nothing
(lest it be clammy,) when it is enough, you may know
by putting in a hens feather, for then it will burn it.
II. Varnijb sor painted figures.
Take white Rozin one pound, Plum-tree gum (or
Gum-Arabick ) Venice Turpentine, Linseed-oyl, os
each two ounces",first melt the Rozin and strain it very
hot i steep the Gum in oyl 01ive( oyl ben is hetter) till
it is dissolved, and strain it, to which put the Turpen-
tine arid Rozin, and over a How fire mingle them till
M 3 they