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Types of orangery. Coloured engraving.

Glass: three views inside a plate glass factory. Engraving by A. Bell.

Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Mirrors: tools and equipment for silvering glass. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799.

Chemistry: weighing apparatus (top), evacuated [?] glass bulb for combustion with sunlight (below). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Chemistry: burning-glasses and a glass-polishing machine. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1799.

Machines: a gas-fired glass-furnace, long and short sections, plan and details. Engraving, after 1861.

Chemistry: two types of burning-glass, and a glass-polishing machine. Engraving by A. Bell.

Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Glass: the British flint glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Lithograph.

Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured lithograph.

The handmaid to the arts, ... . Teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in Painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The means of delineation, or the several Devices employed for the more easily and accurately making Designs From Nature, or Depicted Representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busis, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and Bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine Gold and Silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions: -the art of Japanning, as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced: - and the method of Staining Different Kinds Of AtSubstances, with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to profest artists; as to initiate those who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, crayous, encaustic, enamel, varnish, distemper, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.

Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.

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Glass: the British flint glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Lithograph.

Glass: the British plate glass factory, St Helens, Lancashire. Coloured lithograph.

Chemistry: chemical apparatus made of glass, metal etc. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1801, after H. Lascelles.

Mirrors: a mirror-factory (above), and a work table for silvering glass (below). Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.