Encaustic Painting

About this eBook

Author

Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798

Title

Encaustic: Or, Count Caylus's method of painting in the manner of the ancients. To which is added a sure and easy method for fixing of crayons

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Bible and Crown,1760.

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Encaustic painting

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 69846

Release Date

January 20, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ENCAUSTIC PAINTING.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.ENCAUSTIC: OR, Method of Painting In the Manner of the Ancients . — Extract of a Letter 1 From the Abbé Mazeas , F. R. S.
5. 5.ART. I.
6. 6.ART. II.
7. 7.ART. III.
8. 8.ART. IV.
9. 9.ART. V. — Observations on article the first. — Observations on Article the second. — Observations on Article the third. — Observations on Article the fourth. — Observations on Art. the fifth and last.
10. 10.List of the Colours To be USED for Painting in Encaustic; AS ALSO FOR THE Composing of the Crayons . — WHITE. — YELLOWS. — PINKS. — REDS. — BLUES. — BLACKS. — COLLENS EARTH. — UMBRA, Crude and calcined.
11. 11.ENCAUSTIC;
12. 12.ART. I. — Preparation of the cloth, or paper, for painting with crayons. — Second method, to prepare cloth with paper pasted thereon.
13. 13.ART. II.
14. 14.ART. III. — Observations on the system for painting with crayons.
15. 15.General Remarks — On WAX. — On VARNISH.
16. 16.EXPERIMENTS. — Experiment the first and principal, 1757. — Experiment the second. — Experiment on oil-colours. — Conclusions.
17. 17.Advertisement.
18. 18.FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.Table of Contents . — Transcriber’s Notes

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