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)

i So Poljgraphices. Lib. 3.
light and the eye and almost golden colour (unlcss the
infusion be too strong) but with the eye between the
light and it ( in a clear vial) a lovely blew as indeed it
is : this with spirit os Vinegar may be made to vanisti
(dill keeping its golden colour) and after with oyl os
Tartar per deliquiurn may be restored again.
VII. Cloth died with blew and Woad, is by the
yellow decoction of Lafeddied into a green.
VIII. Syrup of Violets mixed with a high solution
of Gold in Aquti regia, produces a reddifli mixtute i
and with a high solution of filings of Copper in spirit
of Urine, a lovely fair green.
IX. Syrup of Violets mixed with a little juyce of
Lemons, spirit of Salt, Vinegar, or Che like acid Salt,
will be immediately red i but mixt with oyl of Tar-
tar, or a solution os pot-ashes, it will in a moment be
per fed: green : the like in juyce of blew-bottles.
X. A good quantity of oyl of Tartar, put into a
slrong solution of Verdegriese, gives a delightful
blew, which may be variously changed by adding spi-
rit of Urine,or Hartstiorn.
XI. Although red Roses hung over the fume of
Sulphur, lose all their redness, and become white : yet
oyl of Sulphur (which is nothing but the fumes con-
densedJ doth wonderfully heighten the tincture of
the same.
XII. Cocbenele will have its colour far more height-
ned by spirit of Urine,than by rectisied spirit of Wine:
and one grain of Cochenele in a good quantity of spi-
rit of Urine, being put into one hundred twenty six
ounces of water, tinged it s although but faintly : J
which amounts to above one hundred twenty rive
thousand times its own weight.
XIII. Twenty grains os Cochenele being mixed
with an ounce of Saccharum Saturn^ makes a molt
glpri-