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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Title: 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.
Author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Publication: 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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Subject terms: Drawing -- 17th century.
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Of Red.

Red, from the old Saxon Rud, as the towne of Hert∣ford, as my worshipfull friend Master Camden in his Britannia noteth, first was called by the Saxons He∣rudford, as much as to say, the Rud ford, or the red ford•• or water, the like of many other places in Eng∣land, in high Dutch it is called Rot, in low Dutch Root, without doub•• from the Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which is the same, in French Rouge, in Italian Rubro, from the Latine Ruber, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 à corticibus vel grauis mali punici, from the rindes or seedes (as Scaliger ••aith) of a Pomegranate, which are of this colour. In Spa∣nish it is called Vermeio, of Minium which is Ver∣milion.

The sorts of Red are these.

...Vermilion.
...Synaper lake.
...Synaper tops.
...Red lead.
...Roset.
...Turnsoile.
...Browne of Spaine.
...Bole Armoniack.