. 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 . h, and where your talent really lies, as thefamiliar poet, whom I shall be found to have more thanone occasion to cite for your instruction, has so welladvised; for the rules of his art are those, in theirabstract principles, which regulate your own : Sumite materiam vestris, qui pingitis, aequamViribus; et versate diu, quid ferre valeant humeri. A. A. POSTSCRIPT-ADVERTISEMENT Since this volum
. 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 . h, and where your talent really lies, as thefamiliar poet, whom I shall be found to have more thanone occasion to cite for your instruction, has so welladvised; for the rules of his art are those, in theirabstract principles, which regulate your own : Sumite materiam vestris, qui pingitis, aequamViribus; et versate diu, quid ferre valeant humeri. A. A. POSTSCRIPT-ADVERTISEMENT Since this volume was prepared for the press, and accepted by thepublishers, the author or compiler has thoroughly revised it, andadded many useful little items from Mr. Fields Chromatography,and from some other English w^orks of the immediate period. Hisconfidence therefore in its utility, to the Young Artist and theAmateur, is rendered if possible still more positive ; and he issuesit now with the full assurance, that, for all that it pretends to teach,the Handbook will be found not wanting in any point of informa-tion made requisite by the present state of the Art of Oilpainting. November, THE SEVEN PARTS OF THE HANDBOOK. CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTERS. FIRST PART. THE MATERIALS AND IMPLEMENTS OF PAINTING. Chapter I. List of the best colors employed by artists, with their quality as good or bad driers Page 1 \/ II. Detailed account of the nature, properties, and uses of the various colors given in the preceding List ^ >/ HI. List of all the colors at present employed in paint-ing, arranged in three classes, according to their de-gree of fixedness or permanence 46 ^ IV. Brief account of the nature, properties and uses ofsuch pigments, in the preceding List, as have not al-ready been described in Chapter II. 49 V. Summary of the opinions generally received with re-gard to the solidity of the various colors now in use foroilpainting 54 VI. Methods of making certain colors that are not to b
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