This text provides instructions for depicting a head in a tronie position, indicating steps for creating an oval structure to guide the facial features' alignment. It explains how to establish the central lines and divide the facial proportions across a designated diameter for accurate representation. This section also refers to prior examples for further clarification on achieving realistic portrayals based on proportional rules.
Seventh Example of the Tronie Position of a Head that is Recumbent, and Incidentally Backward or Forward and Simultaneously Inclined to the Side.
Create an Oval, in which the largest Central Line or straight natural Line A B is inclined as much as desired and as shown in the example of the second design through the solid Line I Q. Now, to attach the Elevated Arch or Incidental Horizontal Line of the Features on the right D C, do as in the preceding example; or if you've forgotten that, bring the inclined space according to our previous Rule from D to AB or elsewhere, and where it touches G, there is the point to draw the desired Arch. To now compose further such a Tronie (because we believe that the means to connect the Arc of the Profile A F C you have already seen enough in the examples given), divide on the Diameter A. E. B the Nose, Mouth, and Chin, Eyes, and the intervening space thereof according to the Proportional Measures shown here previously in the Natural position of the Tronie. And then bring the mentioned Arches A. F. B and D. G. F. C to coincide with those of the Horizontal Feature-Line perpendicular to the Diameter so that all Points on the Arc of the recumbent AFB are as wide as those on the bent Horizontal DGC are defined by A. E. B from A. E. B. The Tronie thus fully drawn under these Examples not only indicates how to.
Refer to the second and third example of this illustration.