Old clocks and watches & their makers : being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 197
7, and attained muchsuccess as a miniature painter in France and in England. The newprocess consisted of applying to thin gold plates thick colours ofdifferent tints which would, after being subjected to fire, retain theirbrilliance and lustre. Petitot exercised his art on snuff-boxes, butI have… … Fig. 228. -Watch by Jean HebratofBrussels. a goldsmith of Chateau Surr,who was pre\dously distin-guished for painting inenamels, and who certainlyseems to have been one otthe first to apply it towatches. Other French and Swiss artists quicklydevoted themselves to thenew kind of enamel paint-ing.…
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