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Materials for permanent painting a manual for manufacturers, art dealers, artists and collectors / by Maximilian Toch.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Toch, Maximilian, 1864-1946.
- 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):
- Paint--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Paint.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208, [8] p., [8] leaves of plates) : ill. (1 col.).
- Other Title:
- Materials for permanent painting
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Van Nostrand Co., 1911.
- Contents:
- History of painting
- Pigments used by the ancients
- Sinopia, the search for the masters' secret
- Photo-chemical deterioration of oil paintings
- Cause of the cracking of paintings and the remedies
- Canvas, wood and metal as foundations
- Preparation of canvas in commercial practice
- Renovations and cleaning of pictures
- The school of impressionism
- Volatile solvents
- Picture varnishes
- Driers
- Linseed oil and other drying oils
- Classification of the pigments and their description
- The permanent colors
- Pigments dangerous to health
- Pigments affected by coal smoke, etc.
- Water in tube colors
- Pigments which are permanent, etc.
- Pigments which dry slowly
- The failure of Sir J. Reynold's paintings.
- Notes:
- Plates accompanied by guardsheets with red letterpress.
- Includes index.
- Publisher's advertisements: p. [209]-[218].
- Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
- OCLC:
- 609908742
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