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 transl_trans Transcription Priming is a colour laid on the cloth, &c. previous to those which are to form the picture, and should be chosen of a tint rather light than dark.,, 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