@article{532401,
      note = {Anonymous. By Robert Dossie. },
      author = {Dossie, Robert,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/532401},
      title = {The handmaid to the arts, ... . 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. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller in Ordinary to his  Majesty,},
      recid = {532401},
      pages = {2v. ;},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1764},
}