The gentlemans exercise Or an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in lymming, painting, tricking, and blason of coates, and armes, with diuers others most delightfull and pleasurable obseruations, for all yong gentlemen and others. As also seruing for the necessarie vse and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters and caruers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthie peeces, either for borders, architecks, or columnes, &c. By Henrie Peacham Master of Artes.
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The gentlemans exercise Or an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in lymming, painting, tricking, and blason of coates, and armes, with diuers others most delightfull and pleasurable obseruations, for all yong gentlemen and others. As also seruing for the necessarie vse and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters and caruers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthie peeces, either for borders, architecks, or columnes, &c. By Henrie Peacham Master of Artes.
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Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
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London :: Printed for Iohn Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard,
1612.
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Drawing -- 17th century.
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"The gentlemans exercise Or an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts in their true portraitures: as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in lymming, painting, tricking, and blason of coates, and armes, with diuers others most delightfull and pleasurable obseruations, for all yong gentlemen and others. As also seruing for the necessarie vse and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters and caruers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthie peeces, either for borders, architecks, or columnes, &c. By Henrie Peacham Master of Artes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09198.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Of Blew.
Blew hath his Etymon from the high Dutch, Blaw, from whence he calleth Himmel-blaw, that which we call skie colour or heauens-blew, in Spanish it is called Blao or Azul, in Italian Azurro, in French A∣zur of Lazur an Arabian word, which is the name of a stone, whereof it is made, called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, from whence it is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and in Latine Cyaneus a stone, as Dioscorides saith, or sandie matter found in minerals in the earth, of a most pure and perfect blew, whether it be our bice or no, I know not for a certaine, but I remember Homer calleth a table, whose seete were painted with bice 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, but howsoeuer I will not striue, since I am perswa∣ded many of those colours, which were in vse with those excellent Grecian painters in old time are vt∣terly vnknowne to vs.