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Author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
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.
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Print source: 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.
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
London: Printed for Iohn Browne, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1612.
Alternate titles: Graphice
Subject terms:
Drawing -- 17th century.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09198.0001.001
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TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL AND VVOR∣THIEST PATRONE OF ALL Learning and Excellencie, Sir EDMVND ASHFIELD Knight, one of his Ma∣iesties dputie 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 antiqutie 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.
Of the Pictures of our Sauiour Christ, the A∣postles and Martyrs.
Of the Crosse.
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.
Generall rules for shdowing.
1 Proposition.
2 Prop•sition.
3 Proposition.
4 Proposition.
5 Proposition.
6 Proposition.
7 Proposition.
8 Proposition.
9 Proposition.
Of Foreshortning.
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.
Generall rules for Landtskip.
Of the fairest and most beautifull Landtskips in the world.
Of the Graces of Landtskip.
CHAP. XIII. Of Draperie.
Generall obseruations and ruls for Drapery.
CHAP. XIIII. Of Diapering.
CHAP. XV. Of Antique.
CHAP. XVI. Of Drawing beasts, birds, flowers, &c.
Obseruations of the shadowing.
Of Birdes.
CHAP. XVII. The most notable absurdities that our Painters ordina∣rily commit.
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Sence of seeing, and of the Eye.
How sight is caused according to Aristotle.
Of the eye, the Organ or Instrument of sight.
The parts and wonderull composition of the eye.
CHAP. XIX. Coour what it is, of the obiect of the sight, and the di∣uision thereof.
Whether all colours be compouded of white and blacke or no.
CHAP. XX. Of the choyce of your grinding stone, Mullar, Pen∣cls, making your gummes, gylding, &c.
CHAP. XXI. Of the seuerall Gummes that are vsed in grinding of water colours.
Gumme Arabicke.
2. Gumme Hederae, or of the Iuie.
3 Gumme lake.
4 Gumme Armoniacke.
CHAP. XXII. Of gylding or the ordering of gold and siluer in water colours.
To set gold or siluer.
To make liquid gold or siluer.
CHAP. XXIII. The Etymologie and true mixture of colours. Of Blacke.
The making of ordinary lamp blacke.
Of White.
Of whites and their tempring Venice Ceruse.
White Lead.
Spanish white.
Of Yealow.
Orpiment.
Masicot or Generall.
Pinke yealow.
Oker de Luke.
Vmber.
Of Greene.
Greene Bice.
Vert-greece.
Verditure
Sappe greene.
Of Blew.
Blew Bice.
Litmose blew.
Indebaudias.
lrey 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.
Turnesole.
Rost.
Browne of Spayne.
ole Armoniack.
CHAP. XXIIII. O composed colours, Scarlet colour.
A bright Mure.
A Glassie Gray.
A Browne.
A bay colour.
A deepe purple.
Ash colour or gray.
A fiery or bright purple.
A grassy or yealowish greene.
A Sron colour.
A colour.
A Violet clour.
A Lead colour.
CHAP. XXV. How to prepare your tablet for a picture in small.
CHAP. XXV. The practise of that famous Limer Hippolito Do∣nato yt liuing in Rome, in a small picture of Christ.
O mingling Colous or all manner o Gments and Drapery.
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.
Sbles.
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 anneld.
THE SECOND BOOKE of Drawing and Limning.
CHAP. I.
Eternitie.
Hope.
Victory.
Piety.
Pae.
Vertue.
Prouidence.
Time.
Concord.
Fame.
Captiu Fame.
Salus publica, or common sfey.
Clemence.
Fate.
Felicity
ecundity.
Security.
Mony.
Dissimultion.
Equality.
Matrimony.
CHAP. II. The manner o expressing and figuring louds, Riuers, all sots of Nymphes: The Ms, Plnts, indes, Fauns, and Satyres, the Seaons and Mnths of the yeare, &c.
Of Flouds and Riuers.
The Riuer Tiber.
The Riuer Arnus
The Riuer Po, or Padus.
The Riuer Nilus.
The Riuer Tigris.
The Riuer Danubius, or the Donow
The Riuer Achelous.
The Riuer Ganges.
The Riuer Indus.
The Riuer Niger.
CHAP. III. The Nmpes i genrll.
Nape or Nymphes o the mountains.
Dryades and amdyads, Nymph o the .
Niades or the Nymphes of fouds.
CHAP. IIII. The Ocean
Thetis.
Galatea.
Irr the Rainbow.
Aurora or the Morning.
CHAP. V. The Nine Muses.
Clio.
utrpe.
Tlia.
Melpone.
Polymnia.
Erato.
Terpsichore.
Vrania.
Calliope.
CHAP. VI. Pan and the Satires.
The 4 Winds.
Eurus or the Est wind.
Zephyrus or the West wind.
Boreas, or the North winde.
Auster or the South wind.
CHAP. VII. The twlue moneths of the eare.
March.
Aprill.
May.
Iune.
Iuly.
August.
September.
October.
Nouember.
Dcember.
Ianuay.
Februarie.
THE THIRD AND LAST BOOKE, CONTAI∣ning by way of Dialogue, a Discourse tending to the Blazon of Armes, with a more Philosophicall and prticular examination of the causes of Co∣lours and their prticipation, with the light, according to the opinions as well o Ancient as late writers.
Of the Pale.
Of the Bende.
Of the Fsse.
Of the Salteir.
Of the Gyron or Guyon.
O the partitons.
What Herbes are most commonly borne in Armes.
What Trees are giuen vsually in armes.
What Flowers.
What Serpents and creeping things.
Of those birds that are born in Armes.
The Author to the Reader.