A guide to sketching from nature in water colours /

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Experimental researches concerning the philosophy of permanent colours; and the best means of producing them, by dyeing, calico printing, &c.

Includes index.

The camera; or, Art of drawing in water colours : with instructions for sketching form nature : comprising the whole process of water-coloured drawing, familiarly exmplified in drawing, shadowing, and tinting a complete landscape ... and directions for compounding and using colours, sepia, Indian ink, bister, &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

Arts companion, or A new assistant for the ingenious, in 3 pts. Pt. 1 containing the art of drawing in perspective ... Pt. II containing the art of drawing and painting in water-colours ... Pt. III containing the art of painting in miniature ... to which are added directions for shadowing, stipling, &c. ... likewise the preparation of an excellent polish and shell: the whole taken from some of the best Italian and other masters.

Includes indexes.

The painter and varnisher's guide, or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes, on the different kinds of painting ; and on the method of preparing colours both simple and compound ... /

Mode of access: Internet.

Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments, and of their powers in painting, &c. /

Color samples on front. hand-colored.

Werner's nomenclature of colours, with additions, arranged so as to render it highly useful to the arts and sciences. Annexed to which are examples selected from well-known objects in the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms.

Mode of access: Internet.

An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With an historical preface relative to the parts of philosophy therein examined, and to the several arts and manufactures dependent upon them.

The last section, p. [95]-138, is entitled: "A letter to the right honorable the Earl of Morton, president of the Royal Society, containing experiments and observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several metals, and their colours when united to glass, as well as those of their other preparations. With additions. By Edward Delaval, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, Jan. 24, 1765."

Chess for beginners. In a series of progressive lessons. Showing the most approved methods of beginning and ending the game. With various situations and checkmates, illustrated by numerous diagrams, printed in colours.

Mode of access: Internet.

A system of general signals for night and day whereby merchant vessels may communicate at a distance by means of the common colours of the ship, and with four lanterns by night, without going out of their course.

Mode of access: Internet.

The painter and varnisher's guide, or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes, on the different kinds of painting, and on the method of preparing colours both simple and compound ... /

Includes index.

The practical astronomer : comprising illustrations of light and colours, practical descriptions of all kinds of telescopes, the use of the equatorial-transit, circular, and other astronomical instruments, a particular account of the Earl of Rosse's large telescopes, and other topics connected with astronomy /

"Illustrated with one hundred engravings."

Experimental outlines for a new theory of colours, light and vision : with critical remarks on Sir Isaac Newton's opinions, and some new experiments on radiant caloric.

Mode of access: Internet.

A note on the art of mezzotint and mezzotint printing in colours /

Mounted illustrations.

The British perfumer: being a collection of choice receipts and observations made during an extensive practice of thirty years, by which any lady or gentleman may prepare their own articles of the best quality, whether of perfumery, snuffs, or colours.

Mode of access: Internet.