The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ...

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Title: The whole art of drawing, painting, limning, and etching collected out of the choicest Italian and German authors : to which is added exact rules of proportion for drawing the heads of men, women and children , of what bigness soever / originally invented and written by the famous Italian painter Odoardo Fialetti, painter of Boloign ; published for the benefit of all ingenuous gentlemen and artists by Alexander Brown ...
Author: Fialetti, Odoardo, 1573-1638.
Publication: London :: Printed for Peter Stint ... and Simon Miller ...,; 1660.
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Subject terms: Drawing -- Technique.; Painting -- Technique.; Etching -- Technique.
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The manner and way to lay the Ground upon the Plate.

Take some Charcole and kindle them, this being done, take the hand and screw it fast to one of the corners of the Plate, as near to the edge as you can, because you must lay the Ground all over the Plate; then take the Plate and hold it over the fire, till it be so warme to melt the Ground, then take the Ground which is bound up, and rub it to and fro upon the Plate till it be covered all over a∣like; then take one of the stiffest Feathers out of a Ducks Wing that is not ruffled, and spread the Ground very thin, and smooth every where alike upon the Plate; but have a speciall care you heate not the Plate too hot, least you burne the Ground; which if it be, the Ground will break up when you put on the Aqua fortis and spoile the Plate; you may discover when it is burnt, by its rising san∣dy, which if you perceive, you must take a clean Linnen ragg, and warming the Plate, wipe the Ground cleane off, and lay a new as aforesaid. But if you perceive the Ground to be smooth and not sandy, take it off from the fire, and when it is cold, take a piece of Link and hold under the Ground till you have smoaked it very black, but let not the flame touch the Ground, least you burn it; this being done, if the Plate be cold hold it over the fire again till it be just warme, to let the smoake melt into the Ground, that it may not rub off under your hand; then hold it off from the fire with the Ground-side of the Plate downwards for to preserve it from the dust, otherwise when the Ground is warme, dust will flye therein and spoile it, therefore you must hold it with the Ground-side downwards untill the Ground is cold.