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. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 190
rred, andapply the silver foil. Gilding for Signs. — Gilding for out-door work re-quires a stronger size than for other gilding ; the sizefor this is best made of drying oil, the old and fatbeing the best; chrome yellow or white lead mixedwith it, sufficient to color it and give it a little more… … [ROCURE the first quality of Germanor French glass, (cut quarter of aninch larger all round than the picture, to allow forframing,) and make it perfectly clean ; apply witha stiff brush a very thin coat of Antique varnish,* * The Antique Varnish is made only by us, and will have our name on…
Arts · Painting · Drawing
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