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Bowles, Carrington, 1724-1793 / Bowles's florist : containing sixty plates of beautiful flowers, regularly disposed in their succession of blowing : to which is added an accurate description of their colours with instructions for drawing and painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use and amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art
(1777)
Colouring, pp. 5-6
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'Carmine is to be tempered in your Shell with Gum-Water ;
4and adding a little Spirits' of Hartfhorn, when ufed for the pale
Colour, it gives it a very pleafant Bloom for Flowers.
Sap-Green,: amboge, and Indian Ink, are only to be diluted
vith fair Water.
The Colour is to be extra&ed from the Frencb Berries, by
breaking them a little and pouring boiling Water on them,
adding a little Allum.
The other Colour smuft be ground fine on a Stone, with Gum,
Water proportioned to their Quality.
Lake, Prulian Blue, and Indko, being iiable to~crack, a litle
Sugar-Candy, diffolved in weak Gum-Water, is preventive to
that Inconveniency,
Gum-Arabic is what is ufed: 'Tis neceffary to choofe the cear.
4 it being very effential to the 0 Beaty of the Colours.
The Pencils are thofa of Camel's Hair. The youngeft Prac
titioner need hardly be informed, that it is the beftto choofe tlof
that taper to one and a fine Point, without being fubjei to fplit
at the Ends. For paiting Flowers, they are beft of a moderate
Length in the Hai.
If the Colours thould happen not to work freely, occafionet
by anyGreafinefs of the Paper, a little of theGllof an Ox, or
a Fifh, the latter being preferable, will greatly afift the Freedom
lof the Pencil.
N. B. Ladies and Gentlemen tay be fupplied with the afore-
mentioned Colours, and all others, carefully prepared: Alfo, all.
Materials for Drawing and Painting, a he moft reafortableRates,
y -the Publifher of this Wor
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