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.

Of whites and their temp••ring Venice Ceruse.

Your principall white is Ceruse, called in Latine Cerussa, by the Italian B••acea. Vitr••ui••s teacheth the making of it, which is in this manner. The Rhodians (saith he) vse to take the paring of vines, or any other chips, and lay them in the bottoms of pipes or hogs∣heads, vpō which they powre great store of vinegar, and then lay aboue many sheets of lead, and so still one aboue another by rankes till the hogsheads are full, then stop they vp againe the hogsheads close, that no aire may enter: which againe after a certaine time being opened, they finde betweene the lead and chips great store of Ceruse: it hath beene much vsed (as it is al••o now adaies•• by women in painting their faces, whom Martial in his merry vaine skoffeth, say∣ing, Cerussata timet Sabella sol••m. AEtius saith it being throughly burnt, it turneth into a faire red, which he calleth Syricum, grinde it with the glaire of egs, that hath lien rotting a month or two vnder the ground, and it will make a most perfect white.