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Bowles, Carrington, 1724-1793 / Bowles's florist : containing sixty plates of beautiful flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours with instructions for drawing and painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use and amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art
(1777)
Colouring, pp. 5-6
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1not here to be undcrftood, as only tie putting in the
M I M* Colours prefented by Nature on the Flowers, but like-~
A Y# wife the hadowing thofe Colours, in fuch a Manner'
8Xb as to have the fame Effesf in the inner Parts of the
Flower, as the Out-line has to the Extremities. It is a genera
Rule in Painting, that the Light fhould come in from the
Left-hand; and, conequently, theRight-fide ofthe Obje& muft
ppeardarkeft; but the Thinnefs of the Petal*, in foie Flowers,
a ting Light through them, there will happen neceffary
Lights to be lfhewn, tho' on the Righthand Part of the Flower,
which, in a more folid Subflance, would appear abfolutely dark.
The Limits of the Work, and as I preiume, the Student#
Defire to come to the pra&ical Part, occafions the being as
brief as poffible on the Theory of the Study. The Painter, who
may perhaps fmile at the Plainne1s and intended Simplicity of
thefe Inftru&ions, ihould confider -that this is a Work not
addreffed to thofe who are already Artifts, but an Invitation to
the young uninftruaed Admirers of Painting to the Pratice eof
this delightful Branch of it.
fke principal COLOURS uifd in FLoiW.-PAINTING.
White, Flake-White.
Reds, Carmine, Lake,. Vermilion, Red Lead.
Blues, - Ultramarine, Bice, Pral/4 Blue, Indico
Green, Sap-Green.
2Y/low, - Gamboge, Frencb Berries.
Browns, - Gall-Stone.
Black, - Indian Ink.
'Pital is the Term ufed iu Botany to exprefs that Part, or Parts of the-
Plant, which compofe the Bloffom. 'Tis neceffary to make Ufe of this one
Term of that Science,, as there will be Occafion in the Courfe of this Work,
to deribc the particular Parts of the Flowers.
. Carmine:
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