DECORATIVE ARTS, etc. 13 



DECORATIVE ARTS, etc. 



Woods find Marbles (Imifafion of), 



SCHOOL OF PAINTING FOR THE IMITATION OF WOODS 

 AND MARBLES, as Taught and Practised by A. R. Van- der Burg and P. 

 Van der Burg, Directors of the Rotterdam Painting Institution. Royal folio, 

 i8j by 12^ Ib., Illustrated with 24 full-size Coloured Plates; also 12 plain Plates, 

 comprising 154 Figures, price £2 12s. 6d. 



List of Contents 

 Tiitroductory Chapter — Tools required for Methods of Working' — Yellow Sienna Marble 

 M"ood Painting- — Observations on the different Process of Working— Juniper : Characteristics 

 species of Wood: Walnut — Observations on of the Natural Wood: Method of Imitation — 

 Marble in general — Tools required for Marble Vert de Mer Marble : Description of the Mar- 

 Painting — ^St. Renii Marble : Preparation of the ble : Process of Working — Oak: Description of 

 Paints : Process of Working — Wood Graining : the varieties of Oak : Manipulation of Oak- 

 T'reparation of Stiff and Flat Brushes : Sketch- painting : Tools employed : Method of Work- 

 ing tiilferent Grains and Knots: Glazing of ing — ^\■aulsort Marble : Varieties of the Marble : 

 AVood — Ash: Painting of Ash — Breche (Bre - Process of Working — The Painting of Iron with 

 cia) Marble : Breche Violette : Process of Work- Red Lead: How to make Putty: Out-door 

 ing^Maple : Process of Working — The different Work : \'arnishing : Priming and "Varnishing 

 species of AVhite Marble : Methods of M'orking: Woods and Marbles : Painting in General : Ceil- 

 J'aintingA\'liite Marble with Lac-dye: Painting ings and Walls : Gilding: Transparencies, Flags, 

 AVhite Marble with Poppy-paint — Mahogany: &:c. 



List of Plates. 

 1. A'arious Tools required f'>r AN'ood Painting Finished Specimen— ig. Mahogany : Specimens 

 — 2, 3. AVahiut : Preliminary Stages of Grainin.g of various Grants and Methods of Maniiiulati'Mi 

 and F'inished Specimen — 4. Tools used for ' —20, 21. Mahogany: Earlier Stages and Finished 

 Marble Painting and Method <if Manipulation — Specimen — 22,23,24. Sienna Marble: Varieties 

 5.6. St. Retni Marble: Ilariier Operations and , of (.Irain, Preliminary Stages and Finished 

 Finished Specimen — 7. Methods of Sketching- S])ccinien — 25, 26, 27. Juniper AVood : Methods 

 different Grains, Knots, &c. — 8. g. Ash: Pre- of producing Grain, de : Preliminary Stages 

 liminary Stages and Finished Specimen — 10. and Finished Specimen — 28, 20, 30. Vert dc 

 Methods of Sketching Marble Grains — 11, 12. i Mer Marble: A'arieties of Grain and Methods 

 Breche Marble : Preliminary Stages of A\'orking of AV'orking Unfinished and Finished Speci- 

 .uid Finished Specimen — 13. Maple: Methods , mens — 31, 32, 33. O-ik : A'arietiesof Grain, Tools 

 of Producing the different Grains — 14, 15. Bird's- Flmployed, and Methods of Manipulation, Pre- 

 ej'e Maple: Preliminary Stages and Finished ' liminary Stages and F'inished Specimen — 34,35. 

 Specimen — 16. Methods of Sketching the dif- 36. AV'aulsort Marble: A'arieties of Grain, Un- 

 ferent Species of AVhite Marble — 17, iS. AVhite finished and Finished Specimens. 

 Marble : PreHminary Stages of Process and 



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Colour, 



A GRAMMAR OF COLOURING. Applied to Decorative 

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GLASS STAINING AND THE ART OF PAINTING ON 

 GLASS. From the German of Dr. Gessert and Emanuel Otto Fromberg. 

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Decoration, 



ELEMENTARY DECORATION. A Guide to the Simpler 

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HOUSE PAINTING, GRAINING, MARBLING, AND SIGN 

 WRITING, A Practical Manual of. By Ellis A. Davidson. Fourth Edition. 

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