. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . PART VII. THE VARNISHING, CLEANING, REPAIKIKOjAND LINING OF HANDBOOK OF OILPAINTING. PART THE SEVENTI4. CHAPTER I. OF THE VARNISH MADE OF WHITE-OF-EGG, ITS USES, ANDTHE MODE OF APPLYING IT. Supposing now that our novice has finished his picture,whether landscape, group, or simple head, he will be im-patient to varnish it. He breathes upon it; a vapor gathersboldly on the colored surface, and obsc
. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . PART VII. THE VARNISHING, CLEANING, REPAIKIKOjAND LINING OF HANDBOOK OF OILPAINTING. PART THE SEVENTI4. CHAPTER I. OF THE VARNISH MADE OF WHITE-OF-EGG, ITS USES, ANDTHE MODE OF APPLYING IT. Supposing now that our novice has finished his picture,whether landscape, group, or simple head, he will be im-patient to varnish it. He breathes upon it; a vapor gathersboldly on the colored surface, and obscures it for a fewseconds ere it disappears : he touches it with his fingers ;they leave no mark :—His picture is dry. It is ; but it isnot thoroughly so; not hard-dry, so to express it. Tovarnish it immediately, would prevent the further evapo-ration of the oil, which, thus imprisoned, will more or lessembrown his colors; perhaps too, these colors, straitenedby the thin yet harder over-couch of resin, and thus im-peded in their natural expansion while still imperfectlydry, will burst their restraint, and the picture will open incracks. But what then 1 the lapse of months may boneeded to complete the drying ; and in the meantime, forthe purpose of exh
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