Historic paint receipts
Matthew Spong
To Mix the Colors for House Painting, To make Black Paint, To make Paints
from Lampblack, To make a Superior Lampblack, To make Black from Ground
Pitcoal, To make Black from Wine-lees, To make Ivory and Boneblack, Fine
Black Color, To Paint in White Distemper, To make White Paint, To Paint in
Light Gray and Distemper, To make Flaxen Gray, To make Oak-wood Color, To
make Walnut-wood Color, To make Naples and Montpellier Yellow, To make
Jonquil, To make Golden Yellow Color, To make Chamois and Buff Color, To
make Olive Color for Oil and Varnish, To make Olive Color for Distemper,
To make Blue Colors, To make Blue Distemper, To make Prussian Blue Paint,
Ultramarine, Blue Verditer To make Green Color, To make Sea-Green for
Distemper, To make Sea-Green for Varnish and Oils To make Bright Red To
make Crimson, or Rose-color, To make Violet-color, To make Chestnut-color,
To make a Dryer for Painting, Siccitive Oil, To Paint in Fresco, To Paint
Fire-Places and Hearths, To make Red Distemper for Tiles, To Distemper in
Badigeon, To make a Composition for rendering Canvas, Linen, and Cloth
durable, Pliable, and Water-proof, To make it Black, To make it Green, To
make it Yellow, To make it Red, To make it Gray, To make it White,
ARTISTS' OIL COLORS, On Coloring Materials, To Prepare Ultramarine,
Another Method, To Extract the Remainder of Ultramarine, To Ascertain
whether Ultramarine be Adulterated, Another Method, Artificial
Ultramarine. To Prepare Cobalt Blue, Bleu de Thenard, To make Artificial
Saxon Blue, To make Blue Verditer, Chrome Yellow, Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Yellow (Steinbuhl Yellow) To make Naples Yellow, To make Montpellier
Yellow, To prepare Carmine, Superfine Carmine of Amsterdam. To prepare
Dutch Pink from Woad, Dutch Pink from Yellow Berries Brownish Yellow Dutch
Pink, Dutch Pink for Oil Painting, To make Lake from Brazil-wood, Lakes
from other Coloring Substances, To prepare Rouge, Pink Saucers Carminated
Lake from Madder, To make Dark-Red, To Prepare Violet, To make a Fine Red
Lake, To make a Beautiful Red Lake, To Prepare Florentine Lake, To make a
Lake from Madder, To give Various Tones to Lake, To make a Carminated Lake
by Extracting the Coloring Part from Scarlet Cloth, To make a Red Lake, To
make Prussian Blue, Soluble Prussian Blue, Chrome Red, To make Blue, To
make Pink, To make Purple To make Orange Lake, To make a Yellow Lake, To
Make a Yellow, To make Chinese Yellow, Tunic White, To make a Pearl White,
Chrome Green, Guignet's Chrome Green, To make Scheele's Green, To make
Green, Brunswick Green, Schweinfurth or Emerald Green Color, Green
Colors free from Arsenic, A Green Color which may be employed in
Confectionary, To mix the Mineral Substances in linseed Oil, To Imitate
Flesh-color, A White for Painters, which may be Preserved Forever, To
Clean Pictures, To Restore Discolored White, To Restore Paintings,
Compound for Receiving the Colors used in Encaustic Painting, Grecian
Method of Painting on Wax