The Painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion : containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, glass-staining, graining, marbling, sign-writing, gilding on glass, and coach painting and varnishing : tests for the detection of adulterations in oils, colors, etc. and a statement of the diseases to which painters are peculiarly liable, with the simplest and best remedies.

Format:

Book

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--Technique.

Painting.

Gilding.

Varnish and varnishing.

Glass painting and staining--Technique.

Glass painting and staining.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6, iii-viii, 7-356, 26 p.) : ill.

Edition:

16th ed., rev., with an appendix / containing colors and coloring-- theoretical and practical ; comprising descriptions of a great variety of additional pigments, their qualities and uses ; to which are added, dryers, and modes and operations of painting, etc. Together with Chevreul's principles of harmony and contrast of colors / [by Charles Martel, pseud.].

Other Title:

Painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : H.C. Baird & Co., 1886, [c1869] (Collins)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes indexes.

Publisher's catalogue at end.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Contains:

Martel, Charles, -1865. Chevreul's principles of harmony and contrast of colors.

OCLC:

879312945