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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    your Shadows fhould be dark, and how far light,. with your black Lead, before you rubit off. The carrying of the Hand in this kind will ate firft feem difficult, as to the depth of your ftroaks ;; but in general obferve, ever to carry your Hand! with fuch a Slight, that you may end with the: fame faintnefs, or darknels you begin; and in) cafe one Part require more deepnefs and black-. ~nefs,.than another, you muft do that by degrees ;; and that you may the more expertly do it, obferve: that ycur Stroaks be not tooclofe, nor too wide. and therefore to bring your Hand in the better,, practice at firit by fuch Prints as are but loofely: fhadowed, left by a tempting to imitate thofe: more dark and clofe, you happen to be puzzled where to begin, and where to end, but Practice: will inform you, : As for Letters; in Cafe of Copies, the Letters: mutt be gone over with ungummed Ink, or with black Lead, and laid on the Plate when waxed as the former, unlefs you are fo dextrous at Writing ‘that youcan draw them by Hand, or witha Steel Point on the Plate, in true Cut. / Butif a Map, or other Mathematical Infru- _ment, be required, every. Circle or Perpendicular muift be drawn over as before, or you cannot exe actly imitate. But in cafe of a Face, or Coat of Arms, or Inftruments not to be painted, then you may black over the backfide, as in Etching; but you muft ufe for engraving a Wax ground. (remesoesas meen ar SE A : C Hy Aa: Sh. % ? The Miftery of entting in Wood, laying Gold or Silver, falid or liquid ; preparing Colours for the painting of Pidures, or Prints; refrefbing old Paintings, or Pictures; colouring Maps, Buildings, Landjeips, and many other curious Things, } 02S, As: