The artist, or, Young ladies' instructor in ornamental painting, drawing, &c. : consisting of lessons in Grecian painting, Japan painting, oriental tinting, mezzotinting, transferring, inlaying, and manufacturing ornamented articles for fancy fairs (1835)
Gandee, B. F., author · London : Chapman and Hall ; Richmond : The author · leaf 288
ut it out rather larger than the exact form : then have three or four Italian heaters, or irons for the purpose, made red hot, and placing the paper on a common board, hold one of the heated irons within half an inch over it, until it produces a brown shade, and in the direction of a radius, that… … the shades meet and produce a tint of brown over the whole. Suppose the screen to mea- sure nine inches in diameter, then as the circumference is three times the length of the diameter, it will be twenty-seven inches. If the irons are guided over an inch of the paper,
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