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.
The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap XXIV, Of composed colours, p. 86
A fiery or bright Purple. A fiery or bright Purple is called in Latine Puniceus colour, in Frence Purpurni relnissante, Ital. Rosso di Phœnice, in Greecke φοινίκεος […].
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