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ally proceeding to ufe it more ftrong in your'Shadows, employing no White at all 
throughout your Work, but carefully leaving the White of your Paper in the 
high Lights of white Objects, and very thinly wafhing the Lights in coloured 
Bodies. You are to obferve, that this Method is no more than making a Drawing in 
Indian Ink, only inftead of making it all Black, you ufe fine prepared Colours in 
the different Parts of your Pi&ure. 
I have fpoken already of the Management and Mixture of Colours. Prints may be 
colour'd this Way, without White intermixed ; all the Prints in this Natural Hiftory 
being without White, for fuch Water-colour’ d Prints, or Drawings, as have White 
mixed in their Colours, are apt to change Black. In order to procure Colours that 
will be exceeding fine, and run very fmooth in this Way of Wafhing, mix a little 
gummed Colour in a large Shell, and work it well with your Finger, then thin it 
with Water, and let it fettle a little, and by pouring a little off the Top of it into 
another clean Shell, you will procure a fine free working Colour, which you may 
make as light as you pleafe by the Addition of Water. If a Colour doth not fpread 
itfelf freely, by Reafon of any Greafinefs on your Paper, if you touch your Pencil 
ever fo little in Ox-Gall, it will make your Colours run free. Always obferve in 
thefe firft and lighted: Colours to ufe a large Pencil, in order to fill up the Space you 
have to cover with all convenient Expedition ; for, if you are flow, and let your Co* 
lour dry in Parts, and touch again over their Edges, your Colours will be blotchy 
and dreaky. 
Paper proper for Drawing on in this Way, ought to be neither over nor under« 
gummed : That which is too much gummed, or fized in the Making, is fo hard and 
clofe it will not take in the Colours at all, and what is laid on at firft, one is apt to 
Wafh off again in the fecond Shadowing, and fo on, which is very inconvenient. 
An under-gummed Paper hath a contrary Inconveniency, for the Colours are apt to 
run through it, and fpread beyond your Deflgn on the Out-Line. A proper Paper 
may be chofen by touching it with your Tongue : An ungummed Paper will ftick 
very ftrongly to the Tip of the Tongue when touched : An over-gummed Paper will 
hardly ftick at all ; by which a proper Medium may be found, that only fticks a 
little to the Tongue. It is of fmall Import,- whether your Paper be very White, or 
not; for provided it be of an even clear Grain and Surface, a Caft on the Yellow or 
Cream will not hurt the Drawing when finifhed. If a Print that you would colour 
be on a loofe ungummed Paper, it may be prepared for Colouring by wafhing it over 
(once or more, as it may require) with a thin Pafte made of Wheat-Flower, boiled 
in Water, and letting it dry on between each Wafhing. 
I am far from thinking myfelf properly qualified to treat on the Arts of Defigning 
and Painting, yet it cannot be amifs for any Perfon to treat of an Art, fo far as it 
hath fallen within the Compafs of his own Experience and Obfervation. 
Some 
