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Author Carlyle, Leslie.

Title The artist's assistant : oil painting instruction manuals and handbooks in Britain 1800-1900 with reference to selected eighteenth-century sources / Leslie Carlyle
Published London : Archetype Publications, [2001]
©2001

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Description xviii, 589 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 31 cm
Contents Introduction : sources -- Part I Materials : oils and driers -- Fixed or drying oils -- Processing of oils -- Driers -- Part II Materials : resins and varnishes -- Oil varnishes -- Spirit varnishes -- Part III Materials : mediums and oil paint -- Vehicles and mediums -- Solvents and diluents -- oil paint and pigments -- Part IV Materials : grounds and supports -- Grounds -- Painting supports -- Part V Painting methods : systems and application -- Systems of painting -- Paint application -- Final varnishing -- Part VI The durability of nineteenth-century paintings -- The anticipation of change in materials -- Responsibility for the quality of artists' materials
Notes Revised version of author's doctoral thesis: A critical analysis of artists' handbooks, manuals and treatises on oil painting published in Britain between 1800-1900: with reference to selected eighteenth-century souces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Painting, Modern -- 18th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Artists' materials.
Artists' materials -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Painting -- Technique.
Painting -- Technique -- Bibliography.
SUBJECT England -- Imprints http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114936 -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
Genre/Form Manuals (Handbooks).
Handbooks and manuals.
History.
Handbooks and manuals.
Bibliographies.
Author Carlyle, Leslie. Critical analysis of artists' handbooks, manuals and treatises on oil painting published in Britain between 1800-1900
ISBN 1873132166
Other Titles Oil painting instruction manuals and handbooks in Britain 1800-1900 with reference to selected eighteenth-century sources