Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
28 increased considerably; the reader is best referred to Massing's 1990 bibliography (available from the author). De La Fontai ...
some used for painting (i.e., amber, brazilwood and cochineal, gum arabic, indigo, saffron, sandarac, shellac, verdigris, vermil ...
Abstract The Roberson Archive, the archive of the artists' colorman Charles Roberson & Co. (1819-1985) is housed at the Hami ...
range of artists' materials, books on art, and plaster casts of antique statues. Although they sold some patented equipment (suc ...
32 Figure 2. Charles Roberson's recipe fo r Roberson's Medium, originally in sealed envelope. Fitzwilliam Museum, University of ...
Figure 4. Lay figure: Child no. 98. Fitz william Museum, University of Cambridge. Figure 3. Personal account book, 1881 -1894, ...
34 Bought ledgers The bought ledgers help to complete the picture of Roberson's trading prac tices. They date from 1854 to 1931 ...
paper resulted in a volume of correspondence and a leading article in the Times. The background to this can be traced in the Rob ...
36 stranded by pack ice that crushed their ship, Marston mixed his paints with lamp wick to caulk the seams of the open boat in ...
HKI MS 865-1993,497. The move is attributed to increasing congestion caused by the growth of Covent Garden Market in a note on ...
Abstract Two texts from Simone de Monte Dante's medieval Italian manuscript are presented here in English transla tion. With th ...
[1] How to make a gold ground. Take fine, slaked gypsum, as much as the size of a nut, and grind it with a little bit of clear w ...
40 should be fresh and clear and of little color. Know that the quality of the right gum can be recognized in that it is difficu ...
into a glass, and put in a bit of well ground alum, of about the size of a chickpea. Then take a piece of white linen and sieve ...
Figure 3. Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 1793, fo l. 17r. 42 [30] To make gum water for paints. Take of the white gum Arabic, ...
[37] To make crude verzino for writing and miniature painting. Take the brazilwood and finely scrape of the quantity you think y ...
44 when the lather covers it about the width of a finger it is good enough. When you have had it cooking fo r a while, take it f ...
it on what you are working, with a scuilie, so that it spreads. Press everywhere on it with a sponge, as you work with the paper ...
46 Colori, Biblioteca Universitaria MS 1536) are given as Bo1. MS, followed by recipe number and page number in Merrifield's pub ...
On these "clothlet colors," see Wallert, A. 1993. Natural organic colorants on medieval parchment: anthocyanins. ICOM Committee ...
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