The English academy a drawing book, containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise, the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning, all being carefully performed : wherein the aforesaid arts are exemplified, with plain and easie directions to guide you to their attainment with much delight : also the real method how to wash or colour globes, maps, pictures, landskips, flowers, fruits, birds, beasts, fish and fowl : a vvork worthy acceptation of all those that are friends to art, as, drawers, embroiderers, stone-cutters, carvers, gold smiths, needle-workers, gum-workers, &c. performed according to the order of the first and most eminent masters of proportion, viz. / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.

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Title: The English academy a drawing book, containing variety of examples of the external parts of men, women, and childrens bodies with the shapes of several creatures frequently used amongst heralds, gold-smiths, &c. : likewise, the arts of drawing, etching, engraving in copper and wood, painting and limning, all being carefully performed : wherein the aforesaid arts are exemplified, with plain and easie directions to guide you to their attainment with much delight : also the real method how to wash or colour globes, maps, pictures, landskips, flowers, fruits, birds, beasts, fish and fowl : a vvork worthy acceptation of all those that are friends to art, as, drawers, embroiderers, stone-cutters, carvers, gold smiths, needle-workers, gum-workers, &c. performed according to the order of the first and most eminent masters of proportion, viz. / P.L., H.G., P.R., H.B.
Author: P. L.
Publication: London :: Printed by H. Lloyd for Dixy Page ...,; 1672.
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Subject terms: Drawing.
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Of Colours for Garments.

FOR light Blews, Indigo and white Lead mixt together.
For the darkest blew use all Indigo.
Use White only of it self for the light.
For Green, use Bise and Pinck mixt together.
Use Masticot for the Lights.
Pink and Umber for the Darks.
Reds must be made with East-India Red.
The Lights with Vermillion.
The Darkest with Earth of Colen.
For Whites, use white Lead only.
The Darks with Flour.
For Blacks, use Lamb-black.
The Lights, with Lamb-black and White mixt together.
Bone-black for the darkest.

These are the most usual Colours for Garments; but note, when all these Colours are dry, then they must be glazed, which is like washing of Prints with thin Colours, either mix them with oyle or varnish: your Blews must be glazed with Smalt, Bise or Vltramorine; your Reds with Lake, and your Yellows with Pink.

This will cause them to be exceeding beautiful.