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.
- 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.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Drawing -- 17th century.
- Link to this Item
-
https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09198.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"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 26, 2024.
Contents
- title page
-
TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL AND VVOR∣THIEST PATRONE OF ALL Learning and Excellencie, Sir EDMVND ASHFIELD Knight, one of his Ma∣iesties d
putie Lieutenants o the Countie of BVC∣KINGHAM. - To the Reader.
- Authoris ad Zoilum Epi∣gramma.
- coat of arms
-
THE FIRST BOOKE of Drawing and Limming.
-
CHAP. I. The excellency, and antiqu
tie of Painting, the mani∣fold vses, and necessitie of the sam . - The beginning and progresse of Painting. CHAP. II. A comparison betweene the Painters of old times, and the latter, the great value and prizes of Pictures, &c.
- CHAP. III. A Painter not priuiledged to draw what he list, the ma∣nifold abuses of painting: whether the picture of the Trinitie, of our Sauiour Christ, according to his hu∣manitie, the Images of the Saints and their passions: The signe of the Crosse may be lawfully drawne or not, &c.
- CHAP. IIII. Pencils and other Instruments necessarie for drawing.
- CHAP. V. The first Practise.
- CHAP. VI. The second practise.
- CHAP. VII. Of drawing the face or countenance of a man.
- CHAP. VIII. Of expressing passion in the countenance
- CHAP. IX. Of the whole bodie.
- CHAP. X. Of shadowing and obseruing the light according to the rules and infallible principles of perspe∣ctiue.
-
CHAP. XI. Certaine Questions of the manifold deceptions of the sight by perspectiue.
-
1. Why the Horizon appeareth to our sight bigger thn any part else of the Hemisphere. -
2. Why in round and Sphaericall glasses euery thing appeareth crooked to the eye. -
3. Why in the said Round glasses all things appeare lesse then in plaine glasses. -
4 Why in a glasse broken to peeces, in euery peece you see a seuerall face, and but one, if you ioyne them together. -
5 Why square things by distance seeme vnto vs to be long as Courts, the roofes of Churches & houses, &c. -
6 Why the Sunne and Moone appeare bigger at their rising or setting, then when they are in our verticall point. -
7 Why a burning glasse causeth fire. -
8 Why all things appeare downward in the water.
-
- CHAP. XI. Of Lant-skip.
- CHAP. XIII. Of Draperie.
- CHAP. XIIII. Of Diapering.
- CHAP. XV. Of Antique.
- CHAP. XVI. Of Drawing beasts, birds, flowers, &c.
- CHAP. XVII. The most notable absurdities that our Painters ordina∣rily commit.
- CHAP. XVIII. Of the Sence of seeing, and of the Eye.
-
CHAP. XIX. Co
our what it is, of the obiect of the sight, and the di∣uision thereof. -
CHAP. XX. Of the choyce of your grinding stone, Mullar, Pen∣c
ls, making your gummes, gylding, &c. - CHAP. XXI. Of the seuerall Gummes that are vsed in grinding of water colours.
- CHAP. XXII. Of gylding or the ordering of gold and siluer in water colours.
-
CHAP. XXIII. The Etymologie and true mixture of colours. Of Blacke.
- The making of ordinary lamp blacke.
- Of White.
-
Of whites and their temp
ring Venice Ceruse. - White Lead.
- Spanish white.
- Of Yealow.
- Orpiment.
-
Mas
icot or Generall. - Pinke yealow.
- Oker de Luke.
- Vmber.
- Of Greene.
- Greene Bice.
- Vert-greece.
- Verditure
- Sappe greene.
- Of Blew.
- Blew Bice.
- Litmose blew.
- Indebaudias.
-
l rey Blew. - Korke or Orchall.
-
To make a blew water to diaper vpon all other blewes
- Of Red.
- Of Vermilion.
- Sinaper lake.
- Sinaper Tops.
- Red Lead.
-
Turneso
le. -
Ros
t. - Browne of Spayne.
-
ole Armoniack.
-
CHAP. XXIIII. O
composed colours, Scarlet colour. - CHAP. XXV. How to prepare your tablet for a picture in small.
-
CHAP. XXV. The practise of that famous Li
mer Hippolito Do∣nato yt liuing in Rome, in a small picture of Christ. -
CHAP. XXVI. The manner of Annealing and Painting vpon glasse.
- How to make your Or, or yealow vpon glasse.
- Another faire Gold or yealow vpon Glasse.
- Argent or white.
-
S
bles. - Azure, Gules, and Vert.
- Another faire red vpon Glasse.
- Another excellent greene vpon Glasse.
- To make a faire Carnation vpon a Glasse.
- Another blacke.
- Another Carnation.
- The manner of annealing your glasse, after you haue laid on your colours.
-
To know when your glasse is well anne
l d.
-
CHAP. I. The excellency, and antiqu
-
THE SECOND BOOKE of Drawing and Limning.
- CHAP. I.
-
CHAP. II. The manner o
expressing and figuring louds, Riuers, all so ts of Nymphes: The M s, Pl nts, indes, Faun s, and Satyres, the Sea ons and M nth s of the yeare, &c. -
CHAP. III. The N
mp es i gen r ll. -
CHAP. IIII. The Ocean
- CHAP. V. The Nine Muses.
- CHAP. VI. Pan and the Satires.
-
CHAP. VII. The tw
lue moneths of the eare.
-
THE THIRD AND LAST BOOKE, CONTAI∣ning by way of Dialogue, a Discourse tending to the Blazon of Armes, with a more Philosophicall and p
rticular examination of the causes of Co∣lours and their p rticipation, with the light, according to the opinions as well o Ancient as late writers. - The Author to the Reader.