Volume 1

Arts treasury of rarities: and curious inventions. : In two parts.

  • White, John
Date:
[1710?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Arts treasury of rarities: and curious inventions. : In two parts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “EF well without as with Meafure; which hav- ing attained feparate, exercife your fkill in draw- | ing legs and feet conjunct or joined together, that fo underftanding the frame and particulars of the. whole Body, you may be the better underitoed in drawing the Figures in their due proportion and right poftures, in doing which there is no {mall ‘Difficulty. And in this manner; having proceeded to form the Members, draw the other parts of the Body, as the fhoulders, Back, Breatt, Belly, fecrets, thighs, and the like; and laitly, take | -@are in due proportion to join them, that they may appear firm and complete. © , Coming to practice upon an entire Body, the | beit Way is to begin with thofe of children ; and my reaion is, becaufe they are generally fat and plump, and rounder than the Bodies.of Men and ‘Women, and, confequently require fo much Cu- riofity in the Obfervation of Mufcle and other — Features, which render the drawing lefs didicult. As for your further Direétion in drawing, ob- ferve ever to begin at the Head, and fo proceed by Degrees, running the whole lightly over at the firft, and encreafing more fully, as you fee Occa- fion, ever being careful to take Notice, that your parrelel Joints, Mufcles, &c. be rightly propor- tioned, and exattly oppofite; alfo that the Mo- tions of the Body be anfwerable to each other, and that the Parts and Limbs have a due Symme- ‘one great Arm or Leg, and another {mall one, — nora great Finger upon a {mall Mand, neither further than the Proportion. requires, fuffer one Limb or Member to be longer than another ; and although it fo happen, which. it frequently does, that at firft you commit Errors of this Nature, yet be not difcouraged, for often practice will redrefs them. Ko Having