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Author: Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
Title: Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;
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Print source: Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting : in two parts. / By William Sanderson, Esq;
Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.
London: Printed for Robert Crofts, at the signe of the Crown in Chancery-Lane, under Serjeant's Inne, 1658.
Subject terms:
Drawing -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
Painting -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.
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frontispiece
title page
On the Picture of the Author, Mr SANDERSON.
PREFACE.
READER,
To Mr. Sanderson, the Author of this Book, The Art of Painting.
Upon our English Zeuxis, W. San∣derson, Esquire.
On the noble Art of PAINTING.
To the exquisitely Ingenious, W. SANDERSON Esq On his Book of Painting in Water-Colours.
Clarissimo viro Guilielmo Sandersono, Artis Zoographicae excultori Celeberrimo.
title page
portrait of Charles I
In Effigiem Caroli, Nuper-Regis.
GRAPHICE: OR The use of the Pen and Pensil; In the most Excellent Art of PAINTING.
Of the Five Senses.
Of the Excellency of Sight.
Of the Excellency of Sight, in the Art of Painting.
Of a Landskip.
Of Painting and Poetry compared.
The Ʋse and Ornament of Pictures.
Of Originall Pieces and of Copies.
Choyce of Pictures.
Particular Masterie.
Of Abilities in Painters.
Well Designed.
Well Coloured.
Grecians the first Painters.
How to dispose of Pictures and Paintings.
Of Grotesco.
Of Fresco.
To place the Pictures within Doors.
Of Drawing, and Designing in generall.
The Practice of Drawing or Designing.
Of the powers of a Painter and Painting.
A Picture of the Husband and his Wife.
A Promontory of Land, like a Mans head.
Of the Parts of a Piece.
Of Invention.
Of Proportion.
Of Colouring.
Of Action and Passion.
Of the disposition of the Parts.
Conclusion of this first Part.
The Use of the PENSIL: In the most Excellent Art of LIMNING, In WATER-COLOURS. Part II.
Of Limning in Water-Colours.
Of Whites.
Colours, to be grinded.
Colours to be washed, and not to be ground.
Of Pensils.
The first Division, by Life.
The Tablet.
To Order your Light.
The Generall manner of working in Limning.
Colours to the Complexion.
The first sitting to worke in particular.
Second sitting.
Third Sitting.
To make Liquid-Gold most Excellent.
To make Liquid-Silver.
The second Division by Landskip: The Tablet.
The Third Division of History.
Four severall sorts of Colouring.
Of Drapery in Limning.
Observations in Limning.
Of Pastills, or Croyons.
To work in Croyons or Pastills,
For tempering so many Pastills for change of Colours in the Face.
Of Frescoe.
To make excellent pur White-Lead.
To make severall Colours.
A Crimson-Velvt.
Excellent Receipts from Mr. Hilliard, that old famous English Limner.
An excellent Black.
The five perfect Colours, with their Lights and Shaddowes.
section
2. Red, or Ruby.
3. Blew, or Saphire▪
4. Green, or Emrauld.
5. Yellow, or Topas.
An excellent Receipt to make Ʋltra-Marine.
To make a Varnish.
An excellent Water, for the preserving white-Colours, and recovering them, being dead or starved; and generally for all Colours.
The draught of a Landskip Mathematicall; they that have leasure and desire thereto, may make experiment.
To make clean a fonl, or old Picture, in Oyle.
Light, bad for the eyes.