120 Preparing and applying a Composition for Painting 



slide A, which is moved from the back by the brass handle 

 B. C a moveable plale attached to' the slide A, now sup- 

 ported by the latch catching a pin, by which means it acts 

 as a blower to cause the. fire to burn more briskly, but which 

 slides down also to shut the fire up. 



D another plate, now hanging on its latch, but which 

 can be let down to shut up the ash-pit or dish I, which can 

 be drawn out when the side facings FF are pulled up. G a 

 circular plate or cap, which slides so as to shut the chimney 

 up close. 



Fig. 2. The body of the stove with the slider A moved 

 round to the back, and thus leaving the fire-place com- 

 pletely open. 



Fig. 3. The ash-dish shown separate. 



Fig. 4. One of the side facings taken out to show the 

 figure H, which slides into a hole made in the corner of the 

 6tove to hold it. 



The expense of one of these stoves of twelve inches di- 

 ameter is about eight pounds. 



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XX. Method of preparing and applying a Composition for 

 Painting in Imitation of the Ancient Grecian Manner, 

 called Encaustic Painting. By Mrs. Hooker, of Rot- 

 iingdean, near Brighton*. 



I ut into a glazed earthen vessel four ounces and a half 

 of gum arabic, and eight ounces (or half a pint wine mea- 

 sure) of cold spring water ; when the gum is dissolved, stir 

 in seven ounces of gum-mastich, which has been washed, 

 dried, picked, and beaten fine. Set the earthen vessel con- 

 taining the gum- water, and gum-mastich, over a slow fire, 

 continually stirring and beating them hard with a spoon, in 

 order to dissolve the gum-mastich : when sufficiently boiled, 

 it will no longer appear transparent, but will become opaque, 

 and stiff, like a paste. As soon as this is the case, and that 

 the gum-water and mastich are quite boiling, without taking 

 them off the fire, add five ounces of white wax, broken into 



* From Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufac- 

 tures, and Commerce, for 1807. 



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