Identifier: excellencyofpenp00lond (find matches)
Title: The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern ..
Year: 1688 (1680s)
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Subjects: Drawing Drawing Art
Publisher: London, Printed for Dorman Newman ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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r, and con-dition, as by experience I have found; though fomeignorant of what they have writ, would puzzleyou about altering the temper. SECT. fart 11. ire fen ana rerun. 55 S EC T. II. The fever always of holdingthe Graver. jj E T the end of the haft of the Graver reftLLy againit the ball of the thumb,anld let the fore-finger guide the Graver, which is done by reftingfteadily upon the point of your Graver. You muft alio provide a Bag of Sand to lay yourPlate upon, on which you may turn your Plate at(eafe every way : And note , that with your lefthand you mult turn your Plate as the ftroaks yougrave do turn, which is not eafily attained withoutdiligent care. Your Copper plates ready polifhed doofrencome from Holland, or c)(t you may have themprepared by feveral \r\Ergland\ you may be di-Tefted how to have thefe Plates by molt Primers ofPlates in London, and therefore I forbear to troubleyou or my (elf about directing you how to preparePlates for your ufe. SECT4 im zxceuency of dook H,
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Part II. The Pen and Pencil 57 SECT. III. Tin forms of Graving-tools9 as aljothe rnannir of whetting your Graver. THe upper part of this figure will fhew two fortsof Graving-tools, the one formed fquare, theother lozeng : The fquare Graver makes a breadand (hallow ftroke,or hatch; and the lozeng makesa deep and narrower ftroke. The ufe of the fquareGrayer is to make the largefi ftrokes ,and the ufe ofthe other is to make the ftrokes more delicate andlively. But I prefer a Graver made of an indiffe-rent fize betwixt both thefe two, which will makeyour ftrokes, or hatches, (how with more life andvigour, and yet with fufficient force, according asyou (hall manage it in your working: The forms ofwhich will appear in the 1. and 2. figures. The 3. figure (hews you ho,w to whet the twofides of your Graver, which is to be done in thismanner following- you muft have a very goodOyl-ftone fmooth and flat, and having poured a littleSallad-oyl thereupon, take the Graver, and layingone fide of it (

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