The miniature painter's manual containing progressive lessons on the art of drawing and painting likenesses from life on card-board, vellum, and ivory, with concise remarks on the delineation of character and caricature (1844)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper · leaf 44
quite dry; all traces of scratcheswill thus be removed. It should then beplaced between the leaves of a book, andunder a considerable weight to prevent itfrom warping. It will then at any time beready for use. Before commencing a miniature, the ivorymust be mounted on a piece of card-boardwith… … In the following directions detailing theprocess of painting a miniature on ivory, letus suppose that the student has the highhonour of having her Majesty for a sitter,and that the picture is to be the size of theengraving, plate II. Having placed the sitter in a proper posi-tion, with the light…
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