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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)
Instructions for colouring, pp. 7-20
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Petals, which are fiewn by their fplittin.g and curling back at the
Ends, are fome White, others Straw Colour. The White to be
flhadowed with Indian Ink, mixed with a very little Sap-Green;
the Straw Colour with a very pale Lay of Gamboge, fhadowed
with Biftre. The Style and Buttons, feen at the Ends of the
Flower, are a faint Green ; the Stalks are a purplifh Brown,
with Carmine and a little Sap-Green ; the Leaves Sap-Green,
ihadowed with Frencb Berries and Indico.
N A S T U R T I A N. Otober, PLATE XLVIII.
T H I S Flower is, in Nature, the richeft Or
can be conceived. The beft Method of i
Lay of firong Gamboge all over; upon tha
Lead, leaving the Yellow in the lighteft Part
very neatly with Carmine. On the two largef
eight Lines muft be very correfly drawn, Wi
made with Indico and Carmine. The Stalks
pleafant Green, made with Prufian Blue and
dowed with the fame Colours.
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Sap-Green,
PLATE XLIX.
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