Book/Printed Material A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on design, with remarks on their nature and uses : including the method of drawing in chalk, crayons, &c. of painting in water colors, crayons, &c. of engraving in strokes, chalks, mezzotinto, aquatinta, &c. of modelling, and of sculpture, &c. &c.
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 3 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … Ss ig Bt PamE PEE AHS C THE GIFT OF 25 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 9 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 5 OY I of Colours jor Ure London 280 1797 Ov ClaylorV 205 HallornJ treet Holborn
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 10 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … COMPENDIUM OF COLORS MiA TEU RIALS nR T 8 DEPENDANT OX DES ICN WITH REMARKS ON THEIR NATURE AND USES INCLUDING THE METHOD OF DRAW 1 N GC Jn CHALK CRAYONS c…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 11 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … BEE a WLLL LU LL ULL LLL LEE EEE EC LCCC LCL LCL CUCU CEELELL LL
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 12 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … NF ie 5 ig a3 INTRODUCTION Tus aifity of the following CoMPEN DIUM M will appear to all who consider the variety of substances which are employed in composing many colors and…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 13 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … perties were more satisfactorily understood or if better methods of managing them were discovered which can only be the result of experiment More over we know that foreign countriesafford a variety of…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 14 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … Â3 Such information would be valuable to the public since thereby many expensive materials might be su âperseded by others equally serviceable at a much less price or improvements on those now…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 15 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 8 ind y The prices marked to many of the Following articles may serve te useful bints in purchasing Colors c but must be taken with some Liberty according to the quality…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 16 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … A COMPENDIUM COLORS c Acacia The flowers afford that bright yellow which bears washing i in the Chinese silks c and is used by them in painting on paper The flowers âare…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 17 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 8 serve the same purpose at a small expence The processto obtainitsrcolor would âmosthikely be âmuch the same ANACARDIUM or Casuewnut From the sweetish liquor contained in its shells the Indians extract…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 18 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 9 Rock Arnum or Roce ALrum is prepared from pyritous stones cut from quarries âand 1s distinguished from the common allum extracted from earth c Puririep Arum is prepared by dissolving it…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 19 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … a 10 The temperature of the weather has a great effect on its âoperation Price about As 6d per pound weight ARCHILI is a white âmoss which grows on the rocks in…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 20 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … I trusted to 1t gives the appearance of age to pic tures c Price 6d to 1s per ounce AspuarLTuM is excellent in the shadows of flesh draperies foregrounds c and particularly…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 21 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 12 samo de capivi observing it continually until it ig quite melted and never to use it before the picture is very dry then rub the part which you design to âglaze…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 22 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 18 It bears the best body of all bright blues used 1 common but 1s in its celor the palest It requires good grinding to prepare it for use being inclined fo…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 23 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … Â 3 Sweden and Norway where it is frequently obtains ed from the ârefuse of the tree left in preparing rosin or pitch It is the basis of the ink used by…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 24 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … Cas EarrtH Brack is a kind of coal which well pul verised is used in fresco Burnt paper ground finely is said to make a good black Peach stones burnt make a…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 25 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 16 black âand âother âcharcoal blacks levigated very fine have the same effect with lampblack It is not easy to distinguish the best Indianink from the inferior the usual manner is by…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 26 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 10S 17 Ultramarine blue Tt was discovered by accident about the beginning of this century A chemist of Berlin having successively thrown upon the ground several liquors from his labortitory was surprised…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 27 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 18 which subsided and left the water clear The pros dudt was an ounce of very fine color fit for the palette Among the experiments made by mixing in dif ferent manners…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 28 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 1g of quicklinie newly baked 21b of red tartar and 11b 8oz of saltpetre pulverise the whole grossly and put it into a crucible placed in the midst of a great furfiace…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 29 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … Â 20Â green vitriol the c fecula precipitated in this way will be as beautiful as those of the first process and the quantity nearly 26 ounces The price of that kept…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 30 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 21 It is very âprobable that if the chives of these flowers were cured in the same manner as saffron they would produce a much greater body of color from which a…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 31 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 22 The tree grows in dry barren places or on rocks is very thick and large usually knotted and crook ed âThe thickness cf the tree is chiefly owing to a gross…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 32 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 28 BRONZE Painting is used o color plaster figures c and 1s of two sorts Yellow which 1s merely the finest copper dust applied with varnish and Red which 1s a little…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 33 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 2 Boxes complete to hold a variety of colors vars nishes c are sold from 21 2s to 21 10s each Portable boxes are much cheaper but are usually contrived by their…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 34 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 3 Pa  Sa 25 greater security from their being rubbed and smeared The tone of âthe drawing is rather âdeep ened than lightened by this operation the copy on the paper…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 35 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 26 To rain water whÃrein thirtysix grains of chouan have been boiled three times and strained are added five drams of cochineal and this likewise is boiled three times then add eighteen…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 36 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … an dt 27 desire the color to be deeper or fainter it is now purple but by adding al quantity of allum very finely pulverized or scraped it will become crimson Strain…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 37 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … PRENCH WHITE CHALE is soft and âadapted only for large subjeÃts ds dre allâ the chalks of Franceâ its black chalk is only fit to be used where expedi dition admits of…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 38 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … AOA ave 20 wild being found âon uficultivated plants and isâ very much inferior mn beauty Some âare of opinion there fs yet attother sort whichis notâ 4 ised âbut the seed…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 39 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 30 COPAL is a shining transparent citroncolored sub stance in smell allied to that of frankincense it melts easily It is a produÃtion of New Spain where it ooses from incisions made…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
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Image 40 of A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on … 31 general crayons are compositions of colored pig ments previously reduced to powder and recom posed into proper mixture and form The art of composing crayons depends principtlly on the mixture of…
- Contributor: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Taylor, C. (Charles)
- Date: 1797
About this Item
Title
- A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on design, with remarks on their nature and uses : including the method of drawing in chalk, crayons, &c. of painting in water colors, crayons, &c. of engraving in strokes, chalks, mezzotinto, aquatinta, &c. of modelling, and of sculpture, &c. &c.
Names
- Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823.
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [London, 1797?]
Headings
- - Colors
- - Art--Technique
- - Art--Early works to 1800
- - England--London
Notes
- - Anonymous. By Charles Taylor. Cf. ESTC.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1777
- - English Short Title Catalogue, N32339
- - LAC ecr 2019-09-03 update (1 card)
- - LAC ddw 2022-04-06 update (1 card)
Medium
- 224 p. : col. plates ; 21 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- N7420 .T25
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 50049224
Online Format
- image
- online text