Main Title, Index and Introduction
Secrets relative to the Art of Engraving
Secrets relative to Metals
Secrets for the Composition of Varnishes, etc.
Secrets of Mastichs, Cements, Sealing-wax, etc.
Secrets of Glass Manufactory
- Compositions to Imitate Precious Stones, called French Paste
Secrets Concerning Colors and Painting
§ I. Paint In Varnish On Wood
§ 2. Paint On Paper
§ 3. Compositions For Limners
§ 4. Make Transparent
Color
§ 5. Compositions
to Dye Leather
§ 6. Color
or Varnish Copperplate Prints
§ 7. For
Painting on Glass
§ 8.
Color
Preparation for Oil, Water, and Crayon
Marble and Jasper Paper
Methods to
Clean Paintings
Making Good
Crayons
Directions for
Coloring Prints
Directions for Painting in
Oil
§ 9. Preparation of Lapis Lazuli to Make Ultramarine
Secrets of the Art of Gilding
The Art of Dying Woods, Bones, etc.
Of Casting in Moulds
Making curious and useful sorts of Ink
Ink Stone
Invisible Ink
Some Obscure Terms Defined
Links
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§ II. To Paint On Paper
V. For the red.
To make a red, take flat, or Venetian lake and Brazil wood
and boil all together, with an addition of black lead.VI. To make
a fine yellow.
You must boil some kermes in water impregnated with orpine.
VII. To make a green.
A mixture of verdigrease, sap green, Hungarian green, and
tervette. The whole grinded on marble with a pretty strong leather
size.
VIII. To transfer a print on vellum, and then paint it.
Choose your print, and fit a sheet of transparent or
varnished paper to it, for width and breadth. Lay it on the print, and fix
it by the four corners and the middle part of the four edges, on that print, by
means of a little white wax, the bulk of a pin's head. Then with a fine
lead pencil, sketch out on the varnished paper, all the outlines and turns of
the print, which you plainly see through. When done, rub the back of this
varnished paper, all over with red chalk, and carrying it on the vellum, fix it
on it, as you did on the print. Then with a wooden or ivory blunt point,
pass over all the strokes which are delineated on the varnished paper, the red
chalk of the back will set off in all those parts, and lie on the vellum, where
on you will find the print perfectly sketched, and fit to receive what colors
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