SAFFRON

SAFFRON (n.)

DUTCH PINK · FRENCH BERRIES · GAMBOGE · MASSICOT · ORPIMENT · PINKE YELLOW · STIL DE GRAIN · YELLOW

JAUNE SAFFRAN (fra.) · SAFRANGELB (deu.) · ZAFFERANO (ita.)

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SAFFRAANGEEL (nld.)

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PEACHAM, Henry, The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be used in Limning, Painting, Tricking, and Blazon of Coates, and Armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations, for all young Gentlemen and others. As also Serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of divers Trades-men and Artificers, as namely Painters, Ioners, Free-Masons, Cutters and Carvers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthy pieces, either for Borders, Architects, or Columnes, &c., London, J. Legat, 1634.

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The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap XXIII, The Etymologie and true mixture of colours, p. 75

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Your principall yellow be these.
Orpiment.
Masticot.
Saffron.
Pinke Yellow.
Oker de Luce.
Umber.

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The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap XXIV, Of composed colours, p. 87

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A Saffron colour.
Germanicè Saffran-gerb ; Belg. Saffran-geel, Gall. Jaulne, come Saffran. Italicè croceo, color di Saffrano, […], Latinè Croceus colour, Græcè κροκινον à κροκος that is Saffron, the Etymon of that name is, […] from flourishing in the cold, for in frost and snow the Saffron flower, sheweth the fairest, and thriveth best, the colour in washing is made of Saffron it selfe by steeping it.

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BROWNE, Alexander, Ars Pictoria : or an Academy Treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning, Etching. To which are Added XXXI. Copper Plates, Expressing the Choicest, Nearest, and Most Exact Grounds and Rules of Symmetry. Collected out of the most Eminent Italian, German, and Netherland Authors. By Alexander Browne, Practitioner in the Art of Limning. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author, London, Arthur Tooker - William Battersby, 1675.

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The Art of Miniture or Limning, p. 78

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As for Vermillion, Verdigrease, Orpiment, &c. they are too course and gritty to use in water colours ; Turnsoile, Litmus blew, Rosset, Brasil, Logwood, Saffron, are more fit for washing prints then curious Limning.

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