Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc.
A household art manual by Henry Day, published in Boston by Shepard & Gill in 1873, covering pencil drawing, oil and watercolor painting, taxidermy, wax and shell work, and dozens of other parlour crafts for amateur practitioners. The wood-engraved illustrations are chapter openers pairing decorated initial letters with trailing floral scrollwork, plus small hatched studies of pansies, roses and leaves and occasional tool vignettes, useful as drop caps, corner ornaments and botanical spot art.
