11 results filtered with: Colors - Early works to 1800
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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.
Hoofnail, John.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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The art of painting in miniature: teaching the speedy and perfect acquisition of that art without a master. By Rules so easy, and in a Method so natural as to render this charming Accomplishment universally attainable. Containing, I. The Difference between Painting in Miniature, and other Kinds of Painting. II. The Management of Colours in Draperies, Linnen, Lace, Furts, &c. III. The Method of mixing Colours for Carnations; for painting of Architecture, or any Building of Stone or Wood; for Landskips, Terrasses, Water, Ruins, Rocks, &c. IV. The Art of Painting all Sorts of Flowers, with the proper Colours required to represent Nature to the highest Perfection. V. The various Methods of Painting. Translated from the original French. The fifth edition. To which are now added, I. Certain secrets of one of the greatest Italian painters for making the finest Colours, Burnished Gold, Shell Gold, &c. II. Some general instructive Lessons for the Art of Drawing. And III. The Usefulness and Benefit of Prints.
Boutet, Claude.Date: 1750- Books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne, extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
New practical improvements and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours, of the Honorable and judicious Robert Boyle, Esq.; so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments ... / By John Hoofnail.
Hoofnail, John.Date: 1738- Books
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Tratado das cores que consta de tres partes analgtica, synthetica, hermeneutica: Offerecido Aos Amadores das Sciencias Naturaes, e a os Dilectantes, e Artistas, que começaõ a occupar-se em todo o genero de Trabalho Colorido: por Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Cavalheiro DA Ordem DE Malta.
Sampaio, Diogo de Carvalho e, 1750-Date: [1787]- Books
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An essay on the mechanic of oil colours, considered under these heads, Oils, Varnishes, and Pigments, with respect to their Durability, Transparency, and Force, In which is communicated some valuable Secrets, particularly, A Method of preparing the Oils, So as to give them a strong drying Quality, perfectly limpid and colourless; A finishing Oil Varnish, And other useful Vehicles for every Branch of the noble and liberal Art of Painting, pointing out The valuable and pernicious Qualities of certain Colours, with a Recommendation of such as are known by long Experience to stand well. By an Artist, Who has been Thirty Years in incessant Observation and Practice.
Williams, William, of Bath.Date: 1787- Books
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An account of the presentation of colours to the Monmouth volunteers, or, townsmen of king Henry the Fifth, on Monday, August the nineteenth, 1799, By her grace the Dutchess of Beaufort. Including particulars connected with that day, as also the songs sung after dinner; and a list of the patriotic band assembled on the occasion.
Heath, Charles, 1761-1831.Date: [1799]- Books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne, extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]
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Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written among some other essays, to a friend ; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1664- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With AN Historical Preface Relative to the Parts of Philosophy therein examined, and to the several Arts and Manufactures dependent on them. By Edward Hussey Delaval, F. R. S.
Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Books
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New practical improvements, and observations, On Some of the Experiments and Considerations touching colours, of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, Esq; so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments; Intended for the Use of Gentlemen and Ladies that amuse themselves with Painting in Water Colours, as well as Designers and Limners, &c. By John Hoofnail.
Hoofnail, John.Date: 1738