Materials for permanent painting
Subtitle: a manual for manufacturers, art dealers, artists and collectors
By: by Maximilian Toch
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Co.
Published: 1911
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Paint; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Plates accompanied by guardsheets with red letterpress.

Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [209]-[218].

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Table of contents: title: History of painting; title: Pigments used by the ancients; title: Sinopia, the search for the masters' secret; title: Photo-chemical deterioration of oil paintings; title: Cause of the cracking of paintings and the remedies; title: Canvas, wood and metal as foundations; title: Preparation of canvas in commercial practice; title: Renovations and cleaning of pictures; title: The school of impressionism; title: Volatile solvents; title: Picture varnishes; title: Driers; title: Linseed oil and other drying oils; title: Classification of the pigments and their description; title: The permanent colors; title: Pigments dangerous to health; title: Pigments affected by coal smoke, etc.; title: Water in tube colors; title: Pigments which are permanent, etc.; title: Pigments which dry slowly; title: The failure of Sir J. Reynold's paintings.