The painter's companion : or a treatise on colours. Shewing how to make the several sorts from their proper ingredients; together with the best method of colouring maps, prints, views, &c. The whole being practical improvements on the experiments of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Very useful for Gentlemen and Ladies that amuse themselves with painting in Water Colours, as well as Designers, Limners, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoofnail, John.

Standardized Title:

New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Early works to 1800.

Color.

Colors--Early works to 1800.

Colors.

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Boyle, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi,[2],64p. )

Other Title:

Painter's companion

Place of Publication:

London : printed for S. Vandenbergh, at No. 13 and 14, in Exeter-Change, in the Strand, MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Notes:

Anonymous. By John Hoofnail.

The titlepage is a cancel.

First published in 1738 as 'New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours'.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N11223.

OCLC:

642113379