Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 201
the var-nish ; take some thick brown paper, dip it in water, and squeezeit gently, spread it over the parts of the varnish you want to de-tach from the glass, and in a few minutes, by raising one edge ofthe black, it will instantly peel away clean from the glass. Whenall the black you want is taken… … V^—3 lOiNG this kind of work upon copper, inimitation of engraving, at a much lessexpense, is something worthy the atten-tion of sketch-artists and draughtsmen,who will find it very useful in gettingduplicates of their work. You first makea correct tracing with a black lead pencilof the drawing…
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