1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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compound colour is composed, the purer and the richer it will be. Light gray is made by mixing white lead with lampblack, using more or less of each material as you wish to obtain a lighter or a darker colour. Buff is made from yellow ochre and white lead. Silver or Pearl gray. — Mix white lead, indigo, and a very slight portion of black, regulating the quanti- ties by the shade you wish to obtain. Flaxen gray is obtained by a mixture of white lead and Prussian blue, with a small quantity of lake. Brick colour. — Yellow ocbre and red lead, with a little white. Oak- ivood colour. — f white lead, and J part umber and yellow ochre : the proportions of the last two ingre- dients being determined by the required tints. Walnut-tree colour. — | white lead, and J red ochre, yellow ochre, and umber, mixed according to the shade sought. If veining is required, use different shades of the same mixture, and for the deepest places, black. Jonquil. — Yellow, pink, and white lead. This colour is only proper for distemper. Lemon yellow. — Realgar and orpiment. Some object to this mixture on account of the poisonous nature of the ingredients. The same colour can be ob- tained by mixing yellow pink with iTaples yellow but it is then only fit for distemper. Orange colour. — Red lead and yellow ochre. Violet colour. — Ver- milion, or red lead, mixed with black or blue, and a small portion of white. Vermilion is far preferable to red lead, in mixing this colour. Purple. — Dark red mixed with violet-colour. Carnation. — ^Lake and white. Gold colour. — Massicot or I^aples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white. Olive colour. — This may be obtained 10