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 June 2, 2024.
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The Riuer Niger.
This riuer is pourtracted like a tawney or blacke Moore, with a coronet of Sunbeames ••esting vpon his vrne by his side a Lion.
The Sunbeames represent the exceeding heat of that clime lying vnder the burning Zone whose In∣habitants are the Moores.
The Lion is proper to M••••ritania and Barbarie, where are bred the fie••cest in the world.
Thus haue I broken the Ice to inuention, for the apt description and liuely representation of flouds and riuers necessary for our Painters and Poets in
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their pictures, poems, comedies, maskes, and the like publike shewes, which many times are expressed ••or want of iudgement very grosly and rudely.
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