The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

Of Lead Colouring.

LEad Colouring, must be done the roughest and boldest of all; having Drawn the Face with Lake and White as aforesaid, take the said Colour with Vermillion, Tempering it to the Colour of Red in the Cheeks and Lips, but very faintly; for remember that both in this and in all Colours of Limning, you may add when you please, to make your Colour Deeper or Stronger, but ne∣ver make your Colour too deep; for then you can hardly help it, without spoiling or defacing your Picture; because, as I have said, you never ligh∣ten in this Art, except the two specks in the Eyes, and a little of the Hair. The first Colour you are to begin the Face with, is the Reds of the Cheeks and Lips somewhat strongly, the bot∣tom of the Chin; if the party be Beardless, over and under the Eyes you will perceive a delicate and Faint Redness, and underneath the Eyes, inclining somwhat to a Purple Colour, which in Fair and Beautiful Faces is ordinary, and must be carefully observed. The Ear is commonly Reddish, and sometimes the Roots of the Hair; all this you must work after the manner of Washing, or Hatch∣ing, drawing the Pencil along, and with Facility and gentle Stroaks, rather washing and wiping it,

than with pricks to pick it, as many affect to do: But the manner of working must be the Fruit of your own Industry; for now Rule can be prescri∣bed for it, beyond your natural Dexterity.

To conclude, in your Dead Colouring, wash over and cover your Ground, and Complexion with this Red, and the following, Shadows, not coming to be exact, but rather bold and judicious; for though it be never so rough at the first, yet its in your power to make it neat in the close. The Red be∣ing [ 10] thus done, the next Work is the Faint Blues, about the Corners of the Eyes, and the Grayish and Bluish Shadows under the Eyes; and about the Temples, which in like manner you are to work, from the uppermost part of the Face, almost all o∣ver, but exceeding Faint, by degrees sweetning your Shadows, or deepning it as the Lights fall hard or gentle. In going over the Face, be sure to make out the hard Shadows in the dark side of the Face, under the Nose, Chin, and Eye-brows; [ 20] and as the Light falleth with somwhat strong Touch∣es in these places, bring up your Work together into an equal roundness, not giving Affection to any particular part of the Face, but rising all the parts curiously; by which means you will better observe the Likeness, Roundness, Posture and Colouring. The Fainter and Lighter Shadows be∣ing done, and somwhat smoothed and wrought into the Red, you may go over the Hair, dispo∣sing of it into such Foldings, as may best become [ 30] the Picture. You must at the first only draw them with Colour, as near as you can sutable to the Life, and after them roughly as the rest; and then once more peruse your Work, and fill up the bare and empty places, which are uncovered with Colour; and for a parting Blow, deepen it more strongly than before, still carefully observing the Life, and deepen not too fast, but by degrees. [ 40]