Priming

Record
General
Remarks: 
[note: immediately above this is a section on Picture Cloths, listing the different sizes and prices, this ends with: "In general, landscape-painters choose their cloths of a smooth surface. Portrait-painters choose a very thin priming. Perhaps cloths are yet better without priming."]
Date information
Year: 
1808

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Source
Library/ Place of edition Title Year Starting date End date Display order
A compendium of colours
Page number(s) in source: 
67
Recipe from dataset Stols-Witlox on grounds for paintings
Original ID: 
75

Note: This record was imported from Maartje Stols-Witlox' database on grounds for oil paintings in NW Europe, 1550-1900. Read more and find the complete dataset here