Dictionarium polygraphicum Volume 1; or, The whole body of arts regularly digested adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1735 Excerpt: ...for the cloathing of angels, and for other young and gay sigures, as also for fcarves, and other light parts of drefs, which fall into a number of folds and flow to the wind. Thefe are most commonly purple, and of thefe there are two forts, the one with blue lights, and the other with yellow. For the former, lay on ultramarine and white very pale for the lights, and shade with carmine, ultramarine and white, the fame as for a purple drapery, so that only the very brightest lights appear blue, and even then you must stipple with purple, with a large quantity of white, and fcumble the whole artfully together. For the latter, ufe masticote for your lights instead of blue i then proceed as for a drapery of pure purple, except that you must stipple and blend lights with the shades, that is the yellow with the purple, by the help of a little gambooge. Carmine red is order'd like this last, that is, the lights must be masticote, and the shades carmine; and to fcumble them, you must ufe gambooge. Lake red, like carmine. Green must be order'd in the fame manner as lake, continually mixing verditer with the fadder greens for the middling shades. Many other sorts of thefe may be contriv'd at pleafure, keeping to the union of the colours, not only in one sigure, but also in a group of feveral sigures, avoiding, as much as the fubject will permit, to put blue next to a flame colour, or contrasting green with black, and fo of others that difagree or afford no proper union. Other Draperies may be made of fad, dirty, and brown mixtures and simples, and all by the directions already given; others also may be contriv'd, both of broken and complicated colours, but a harmony between them must be preserv'd, that they do not offend the eye. There is no laying down a rule to guid...