Recipes for art and restoration, circa 1820
- Title(s):
- Recipes for art and restoration.
- Published/Created:
- Great Britain, circa 1820.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume ; 33 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsTT305 .R43 1820+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/10950899
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- Bound in contemporary marbled boards; rebacked.
Collection of 26 manuscript recipes for artistic or restorative applications, by an unidentified compiler, circa 1820. The following names also appear: G.M.R., Lady Turton, Wm. Galliford, and Lady Cunningham with her receipt for dyeing salmon colors. - Subject Terms:
- Art -- Conservation and restoration.Workshop recipes -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
- Form/Genre:
- Recipes.
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- Strong parte
- Gild paper
- Gilding knife
- To take stains out of marble
- To wash lace
- To recover the writing on parchment
- To make water colors stick on glass
- To keep cut flowers a long time
- To dye "Lilac"
- For polishing furniture
- To keep Geraniums all the winter in the open ground
- To polish a metal tea-pot
- Brown stout "Mrs. Elliot"
- Rule for remembering dates
- Fixing chalk drawing
- Sticking glass on China
- For dying patina colour, [illegible] yellow-blue, purple muslin
- For sticking paper
- For cleaning gilt ornaments
- For restoring green or lilac in silks &c.
- Silver ornaments (to keep)
- [illegible]
- Turpentine varnish
- Rout [?] cakes
- Colours used for a portrait at Dulwich
- Gum water.
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