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Treating of:

Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching

By

Alexander Browne

(Published in 1669)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:	Page
Of the Vertue and Praise of Proportion Symetry:	1
Of the Necessity and Definition of Proportion:	3
Of the Head in Profile or Side-ways:	5
Of the Fore-right Face:	7
Of a Head in Fore-shortening:	Ibid
Of the Side-Face without any Measure:	8
Of Serveral Observations in drawing a Head after the Life:	9
Of the Proportion of a Man of ten Faces:	10
Of the Proportion of Mans Body of ten Faces:	15
Of the extravigant Proportion of a Mans Body of Ten Faces:	Ibid
Of the Proportion of a young Man of nine Heads:	16
Of the Proportion of a Man of Eight Heads:	18
Of the Proportion of a Mans Body of Seven Heads:	19
Of the Proportion of a Woman of ten Faces:	20
Of the Proportion of a Woman of ten Heads:	21
Of the Proportion of a Woman of nine Faces:	22
Of the Proportion of a Woman of nine Heads:	Ibid
Of the Proportions of a Woman of seven Heads:	23
Of the Proportion of Children:	Ibid
The Definition of Painting:	24
Of the Vertue of Light:	35
Of the Necessity of Light:	38
Of the Nature of Light:	40
Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Motion:	44
Of the Necessity of Motion:	48
Of the Passions of the Minde their Original and Difference:	55
How the Body is altered by the passions of the Minde:	56
Of the Motions procured by the seven Planets:	58
Of Jupiter:	59
Of Mars:	60
Of Sol:	Ibid
Of Venus:	61
Of Mercury:	Ibid
Of Luna:	62
How all the Motions may accidently befall any man through diversity:	64
Of Divers others Necessary Motions:	67
Of the Motions of all forts of Cloth or Drapery:	71
Of the Motions of Trees and other things that are moved:	74
The Art of Miniture or Limning:	77
Of the colours to be useful in Limning:	Ibid
The way and manner of preparing colours:	78
Of white Lead:	Ibid
Colours to be washed and How:	Ibid
Of Colours to be washed:	79
Of Colours to be ground:	Ibid
Of the Nature of Colours in general:	Ibid
Observations in grinding:	80
To wash Bice:	Ibid
How to Choose you pencils:	81
To prepare a Tablet to work on:	Ibid
:The ground colour for a Face:	Ibid
The Order of shadowes for the Face	82
To begin a Face:	83
The Order to be observed in drawing by the life:	84
Concerning dead Colouring:	Ibid
The second work of Limning:	85
The Order of Limning in in the seccond fitting:	86
A Crimson ground:	87
The manner of finishing at the thrird fitting:	88
Concerning Ornamnets:	Ibid
A Receipe to make Liquid Gold:	89
Of Landskip:	90
A Dark Green:	91
A rare secret to perserve Colours:	Ibid
Some general Observations in Miniture:	Ibid
To make Crayons or Pastels:	92
To make white:	Ibid
To make white Lead:	Ibid
To prepare a Card for a Picture:	Ibid
To prepare white excellently:	Ibid
Concerning Wax work or Moulding:	93
To craft in Moulds:	94
To counterfeit Roch Candid Fvveetmeets:	95
To counterfeit Pearl:	Ibid
The manner how to draw with Indian Ink:	Ibid
How to prevent your Colour from sinking:	96
The manner how to draw with water colour satin:	Ibid
A farther observation Grinding:	Ibid
How to prepare Umber:	97
The grounds and rules of Etching:	Ibid
The Instruments with their particular names to Etch withall:	98
The use and property of every particalar Insturment:	Ibid
The manner and way to make the ground:	99
A red ground:	Ibid
A white ground:	100
A black ground:	Ibid
Another ground:	Ibid
The manner and way to lay the ground upon the Plate:	Ibid
The way to draw the out lines of any drawing upon the plate:	101
Serveral observations in Hatching:	Ibid
Necessary observation in Etching Landkips:	102
How to lay a wax wall upon a plate:	Ibid
How to use a qua Fortis on the plate:	103
Observations by which you may know when it is deep enough:	Ibid
Another way to know when it is deep enough:	104
A way to lay a white ground upon a black:	105
A way to lay a red ground upon a black:	Ibid
A receipe for a ground taken out of a Manuscript:	Ibid
The ground of Rinbrant of Rine:	106
The way to preserve a Ground in Frosty weather:	Ibid
The way to perserve the Plate from injury:	Ibid
A way to make Aqua Fortis eat soft or hard:	107
Obervations in Etching prospective:	Ibid
A way to grave any hand or letter upaon a Copper Plate:	108
The way to polish a Copper Plate:	Ibid
The Names of the Insturments used to Polish:	109
The use of every particular tool or Insturment:	Ibid
The manner or way ov Mezo Tinto:	110
PLATES:>	Plate#
Heads:	1
Eyes:	2
Mouths, Chins and Nostrils:	3
Ears:	4
Busts:	5
Older Bearded Male Heads (and hand):	6
Youthful Female and Male Heads:	7
Heads and Hands:	8
Hands (mostly in outline):	9
Hands:	10
Hands (rendered with shading):	11
Arms, Hands and Profiles:	12
Arms and Hands:	13
Feet (one hand and face):	14
Legs and Feet:	15
Legs and Feet:	16
Youths and Babies:	17
Babies:	18
Male and Female Trunks:	19
Female Trunks with heads:	20
Male Trunks with heads:	21
Standing Figures with Outlines:	22
Standing Figures with Skeletons and Outlines:	23
Standing Female Figures:	24
Babies (cherubs):	25
Cherubs and Scenes from Christs Birth:	26
Clothed Standing Female Figures:	27
Floating Female Figures:	28
Angelic Female Figures:	29
Joseph and Mary:	30