Process for Curing Herrings in the Dutch Mariner. 27 



1. It incorporates, by means of heat, the painting with the 

 hase and priming, in such a way that we have only one single 

 body; whereas in painting with drying oil, the coats of priming 

 and of painting are not melted together, but superposed on 

 each other. We may be convinced of this by observing closely 

 the o))erations resorted to in giving a fresh canvass to an old 

 painting: every coat of paint is found to be distinct, and ad- 

 lieres more or less closely, according to its thickness and the 

 principles of which it is composed. The picture soon undergoes 

 a great alteration by this process. 



2. In the substance which serves for priming, or preparing the 

 base, as well as in the vehicles for the colours or the varnishing, 

 there is nothing capable of shrinking in course of time, or from 

 progressive desiccation ; so that the painting can neither warp 

 uor crack, nor fall off in scales. 



3. The colours being melted in the wax and covered with a 

 coating of the same substance, are completely out of the reach 

 of air and humidity, which are the most powerful destroyers of 

 paintings. 



M. Castellan's process for painting has this advantage over 

 ^every other hitlierto practised for imitating the encaustic painting 

 of the ancients ; nameh', it does not overturn the customs which 

 obtat)! in all modern schools for painting : there is in painting a 

 merit so inliuiatcly connected with the mode of execution, that 

 a sudden change in this would be repugnant to every painter, 

 whose ideas are more intimately connected than is generally 

 supposed with the mode of expressing them. Several landscapes 

 which have been painted by M. Castellan, and two large por- 

 traits by M. Taunay, exhibit no difference from common oil 

 paintings : we perceive irLthem the same freedom of penciling, 

 the same boldness of touch, clean execution, lightness of co- 

 louring, and the same transparency of tone. 



X. Process for Curing Herrings in the Dutch Manner. By 

 Mr, H. E. SiEV'ERs, of Lower Thames Street* 



Sir, — x\s a candidate for the Society's gold medal of the year 

 1814, I beg leave to present two samples of British herrings, 

 cured in all respects after tlie m.anner of the Dutch. Those 

 marked A having been caught and cured on the coast of Shet- 



* From the Transrntiuns of tlie Society for t/ie Encomagci/ieut of Arts, 

 klatiufrictuns and Cowmen c, vol. xxxii. lor 1311. — Tlit <:(j1iI Jsis medal 

 'i; the hocicly was vou-.d to ISIr. .Sicvers, for hcrringb caii;^!it in tlie Britisli 

 ,-'.ii«> and cured in tiiu Dui'.ii inan.'icr. 



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