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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHEMISTRY, 



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THE ARTS. 



OCTOBER, 1808. 



ARTICLE L 



Method of making a Composition for Painting in Imitation 

 of the ancient Grecian Manner, ivith Remarks. By Mrs, 

 Hooker, of Rottingdean, near Brighton*. 



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SIR, 



Had the pleasure to communicate to the Society for the First attempt 

 Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, in to imitate the 

 1786, when Miss E. J. Greenland, my method of painting paSgr*''^" 

 in imitation of the ancient Grecian manner or encaustic 

 painting; and in consequence, they did me the honour to 

 adjudge to me the gold pallet, and also afterward to approve 

 my account of the result of above fifty experiments per day, 

 which I made during more than four months in 1792, in 

 ihe hope of discovering some means of making wax, gum 

 mastich, and water unite like a cream, in order to expedite 

 the formation of the composition for imitating the encaustic 

 painting, which was published the same year by the Society 



• Trans, of the Society of Arts, vol. XXV, p. 45. This lady's first 

 account of her method of painting was published in the 10th -vol. of the 

 Trans, of the Society. 



Vol. XXI, No. 92--Oct. 1808. G of 



