Cyclopedia of painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information (1908)
Armstrong, George D · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 58
gofera. It is of various qualities,and has been long known and of great use in dyeing. In painting it is not so bright as Prussian blue, but isextremely powerful and transparent, hence it may be sub-stituted for some of the uses of Prussian blue, as the lat-ter now is for indigo. It is of great… … Fig. 15. Roofing Brush. Indigo is injured by impure air, and, in glazing, somespecimens are firmer than others, but not durable, in tintwith white lead they are all fugitive; when used, how-ever, in considerable body in shadow it is more permanent,but in all respects inferior to Prussian blue in…
