1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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painting, it should be mixed with a very small portion of white lead, and made up for use with drying-oil. Beds. — Vermilion is the most brilliant of all the light reds. The body of vermilion is very delicate, and will grind as fine as oil itself. ]N"o colour looks better, works smoother, bears a better body, or goes farther. Minium, or Bed Lead. — When it is well ground and made fine, it is lighter than any other red in general use, bears a good body in oil, and binds very fast and firm. It has likewise the advantage of drying readily. Carmine is a more dazzling red than vermilion, and is almost too brilliant for the eye to endure. There are various sorts of carmine, numbered in the order of their relative value. Thus, ISTo. 1 is the best ; Ko. 2 the second best ; and so on. Lake. — There are two sorts of colours known under this name: lakes derived from cochineal, — the richest and finest of all dark reds; and lakes pre- pared from madder, — not quite so good. Spanish Brown. — The deeper the colour, and the freer from gritty particles, the better it is for use. It is much employed by painters for priming or first colour. OUier Beds. — Besides the above reds may be men- tioned, as among those in use by painters, English red and Prussian red ; red ochre, which is very ex- tensively used, especially in distemper ; rose-colour, composed of a portion of white lead mixed with pure lake ; and realgar. Yellow Ochre. — Of this colour there are two kinds, the bright yellow and dark yellow. The former is