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Ladies' manual of art; or, Profit and pastime; a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood; the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel & crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1887 Ladies
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Technique.
- Art.
- Fancy work.
- Handicraft.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1887.
- Physical Description:
- 294 p. illus., plates. 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia ; Chicago : American Mutual Library Association, 1887.
- Contents:
- Sketching from nature
- Colors in nature
- Pen and pencil drawing
- Pastel painting
- Landscape painting in crayon
- Monochromatic drawing
- Water colors
- Landscape painting in oil colors
- Oil photo
- Photo painting in water colors
- Russian or Egyptian method
- Making photographs
- Draughtsmen's sensitive paper for copying drawings
- Wood painting
- Transparencies
- Crystal, or Oriental painting
- Antique Italian landscapes of painting
- Grecian oil painting
- Ornamental glass sign work
- Vitremanie
- Diaphanie
- Painting on silk
- Staining wood and ivory
- Crystalline surfaces
- China painting
- Monochrome
- Terra cotta painting
- Burning in
- Natural flowers
- Paper-flower making
- French art
- The wax art
- Sprinkle work
- Pearl embroidery
- Feather flowers
- Lustral bronze painting
- Japanese art
- Staining glass
- Gilding glass
- Etching on copper
- Kensington painting
- Arrasene embroidery
- Portraiture in black crayon
- Analysis of colors
- Taxidermy.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green cloth binding with black and gold writing, a gold image of a hillside with trees, and a black image of a tree, an artist's palette, and a stool.
- OCLC:
- 5211590
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