The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...

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Title: The Excellency of the pen and pencil exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures, also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters ...
Publication: London :: Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones ...,; 1668.
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Subject terms: Drawing -- Study and teaching.; Drawing -- Early works to 1800.; Art -- Technique.
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4. For an absolute Black Complexion.

Your dark Shadows must be the same as before; but for your heightnings, you must take White, burnt Oker, Lake, and Black, put but a little White in at first, but work it up by degrees, till you come to the lightest of all, as you did the contrary Co∣lours for a fair Complexion.

Here note, that the single Colours at first laid upon your Pallat being tempered together accord∣ing to the former directions, serve for shadows for all Complexions.

Thus much concerning the disposing and ordering of your Pencils, and what Pencils you are alwayes to have in your hand all the while you are painting of a Face.