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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
Dossie, Robert (1777)2
American Institute For Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Foundation1
American Institute For Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Wooden Artifacts Group1
Bigelow, Deborah (1950-)1
Boubers, Denis De (1723-1808)1
Incarville, Pierre D' (1706-1757)1
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L'art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur; ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes sortes de sujets en bätimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages

Watin, Jean-Félix (1728-); Prévost Saint-Lucien, Roch-Henri (1740-1808); Boubers, Denis de (1723-1808); Incarville, Pierre d' (1706-1757); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

M. DCC. LXXVIII [1778]

"Mémoire sur le vernis de la Chine par le pere d'Incarville, Jésuite & correspondant de l'Académie des Sciences": pages 310-327 "La première édition de ce livre, auquel Prévost de Saint-...

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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 Substances, 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 (Vol 2)

Dossie, Robert (1777); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Anonymous. By Robert Dossie. In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "materia pictoria: or the", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ...

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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 Substances, 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 (Vol 1)

Dossie, Robert (1777); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

MDCCLXIV. [1764]

Anonymous. By Robert Dossie. In this second edition in vol. 1 the eighth line of the title reads: "materia pictoria: or the", the second line of imprint reads: "printed for J. Nourse, bookseller in ...

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Gilded wood : conservation and history

Bigelow, Deborah (1950-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Wooden Artifacts Group; American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Foundation

1991

Outgrowth of the October 1988 Gilding Conservation Symposium, a conference held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, sponsored by the Wooden Artifacts Group, a specialty group of the American Institute ...

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