The handmaid to the arts, [electronic resource] : ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria, r, the nature, use, preparation, and composition of all the various substances employed in Painting, as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours; including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by offtracing, calking, reduction, or other means; with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold fixes, and other necessary compositions;- the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced;-and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to professed artists, as to initiate those who are defirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayons, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco, as also in gilding, &c.
1764
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The handmaid to the arts, [electronic resource] : ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria, r, the nature, use, preparation, and composition of all the various substances employed in Painting, as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours; including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by offtracing, calking, reduction, or other means; with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold fixes, and other necessary compositions;- the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced;-and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to professed artists, as to initiate those who are defirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayons, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco, as also in gilding, &c.
Author
Dossie, Robert, d. 1777.
Edition
The second edition, with considerable additions and improvements.
Publication Details
London : printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his Majesty, MDCCLXIV. [1764]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Language
English
Description
2v. ; 8⁰.
Note
Anonymous. By Robert Dossie.
In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "teria pictoria, or, the nature,", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ordinary to his" and on p.[1] sig. B is under the "e" of "tenacity".
Braces in imprint.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "teria pictoria, or, the nature,", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ordinary to his" and on p.[1] sig. B is under the "e" of "tenacity".
Braces in imprint.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T125950.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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