The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 144
board and glueing all together. It is gener-ally from three-and-a-half to four inches in width. GILDING. 137 Iding.—Before passing- on to notice the methods ofgilding generally adopted by sign writers, it maybe here pointed out that an inferior kind of metal,in imitation of gold leaf, is procurable… … Fig. 23.—Gilders Cushion or Palette. used for work subjected to close inspection, be-cause it always presents atawdiy, Cheap Jackappearance, however dexterously it may be laidon. Indeed, it never approaches pure gold leaf inits effects. The difference between the two isjust that between a gold…
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