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man ; his eyes acquired a sudden brilliancy; his cotuitenance be- 

 came animated, and his figure seemed as if inspired. 



Monge, debilitated by age, was at last the victim of an imagi- 

 nation which, according as the times were adverse or prosperous, 

 carried him beyond either just fears or just hopes. His last mo- 

 ments were without last thoughts — without last eflfusions — with- 

 out any adieu: he sunk in silence — without agonies — without 

 terror — and without hopes. 



XXV. Method of making Ivory Paper for the Use of Artists, 

 By Mr. S. EiNSLE, of Strutton- Ground, IVestminster*. 



X HE properties which render ivory so desirable a substance for 

 the miniature painter and other artists are, the evenness and fine- 

 ness of its grain, its allowing all water colours laid on its surface to 

 be washed out with a soft wet brush, and the facility with which the 

 artist may scrape off the colour from any particular part, by means 

 of the point of a knife or other convenient instrument, and thus 

 heighten and add brilliancy to the lights in his painting more ex- 

 peditiniisly and efficaciously than can be done in any other way. 



The objections to ivory are, its high price, the impossibility of 

 ol)taining plates exceeding very moderate dimensions, and the 

 coarseness of grain in the larger of these ; its liability, when thin, 

 to warp by changes of the weather, and its property of turning 

 yellow by long exposure to the light, owing to the oil which it 

 contains. 



The candidate produced before the Committee several speci- 

 mens of his ivory paper about an eighth of an inch thick, and of 

 superficial dimensions much larger than the largest ivory: the 

 surface was hard, smooth, and perfectly even. On trial of these 

 by some of the artists, members of the Society, it appears that 

 colours may be washed off the ivory paper more completely than 

 from ivory itself, and that the process may be repeated three or 

 four times on the same surface, without rubbing up the grain of 

 the paper. It will also, with ))roper care, bear to be scraped with 

 the edge of a knife without l)cc()ming rough. 



Traces made on the surface of this paj)er by a hard black-lead 

 pencil are much easier effaced by means of India rubber than 

 irom common drawing paper; which circumstance, together with 

 the extremely fine lines which its hard and even surface is capa- 



* From the Transactions of flic Society for the Enrouragemcnt of Arts, 

 Munufurlurex, and Commerce, for \HV.). The sum of ."50 ijuincHS was votcil 

 to Mr. KiriNlcfor tliis communication, and specimens of tlic ivory paper are 

 preserved in the Society s licpositniy. 



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