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•with Venetian varnifh and oil of turpentine. Some gilders, i*n-
flead of this, make fiiift with fine lucca or dragons blood with
gum water.
Sometimes, inftead of burnifhing the gold, they burnifh the
ground or compofition laid on the laft before it, and only after-
wards wafh the part over with the fize.
This method is chiefly practifed for the hands, face, and other
nudities in relievo ; which, by this means, do not appear fo very
brilliant as the parts burnifhed, though much more fo than the
parts perfectly flat.
To gild a piece of work, and yet preferve white grounds, they
apply a lay of Spanifh white mixed with a weak fifh-glue on all
the parts of the ground, whereon the yellow or the laft lay might
run.
The method of Gilding in oil. This operation requires much
Iefs apparatus than that before mentioned.
The balls or matter whereon the gold is laid, in this method,
is the remains of colours found fettled to the bottom of the pots
in which painters wafh their pencils.
This matter, which is very vifcid or fticky, is firft ground,
and then palled through a linen cloth; and thus laid with a pen^
cil on the matter to be gilded, after it has been wafhed once or
twice over with fize ; and, if it be wood, with fome white paint.
When this is almoft dry, but yet is ftill uncluous enough to
C2tch and retain the gold, the leaf gold is laid on ; either whole,
if the. work be large, or cut to pieces, if fmaller ; the leaves of
gold are taken up and laid on with a piece of fine, foft, well card-
ed cotton ; or fometimes by a pallet for the purpofe, or[fometimes
with the knife with which the leaves were cut, according to the
parts of the work that are to be gilded, or the breadth of the gold
that is to be laid on.
As the gold is laid on, they pafs over it a coarfe ftiff pencil or
brum to make it flick, and, as it were, incorporate with the
ground ; and, after this, they mend any cracks that may have
happened in it, either with the fame pencil or one that is fmal-
ler ; as has been fhewn before in water Gilding.
This kind of Gilding is chiefly ufed for domes and roofs of
churches, courts, banqueting-houfes, &c. and for figures of
plaifter of Paris, lead, &c.
Tlie method-of Gilding with liquid gold. This is performed
by gold reduced to a calx and amalgamated with mercury, in
the proportion of about an ounce of mercury to a drachm of gold.
To perform this, they heat a crucible red-hot, and then put
the gold and mercury into it, ftirring them gently about till the
gold be found melted, and incorporated into a mafs with the
mercury.
When
•with Venetian varnifh and oil of turpentine. Some gilders, i*n-
flead of this, make fiiift with fine lucca or dragons blood with
gum water.
Sometimes, inftead of burnifhing the gold, they burnifh the
ground or compofition laid on the laft before it, and only after-
wards wafh the part over with the fize.
This method is chiefly practifed for the hands, face, and other
nudities in relievo ; which, by this means, do not appear fo very
brilliant as the parts burnifhed, though much more fo than the
parts perfectly flat.
To gild a piece of work, and yet preferve white grounds, they
apply a lay of Spanifh white mixed with a weak fifh-glue on all
the parts of the ground, whereon the yellow or the laft lay might
run.
The method of Gilding in oil. This operation requires much
Iefs apparatus than that before mentioned.
The balls or matter whereon the gold is laid, in this method,
is the remains of colours found fettled to the bottom of the pots
in which painters wafh their pencils.
This matter, which is very vifcid or fticky, is firft ground,
and then palled through a linen cloth; and thus laid with a pen^
cil on the matter to be gilded, after it has been wafhed once or
twice over with fize ; and, if it be wood, with fome white paint.
When this is almoft dry, but yet is ftill uncluous enough to
C2tch and retain the gold, the leaf gold is laid on ; either whole,
if the. work be large, or cut to pieces, if fmaller ; the leaves of
gold are taken up and laid on with a piece of fine, foft, well card-
ed cotton ; or fometimes by a pallet for the purpofe, or[fometimes
with the knife with which the leaves were cut, according to the
parts of the work that are to be gilded, or the breadth of the gold
that is to be laid on.
As the gold is laid on, they pafs over it a coarfe ftiff pencil or
brum to make it flick, and, as it were, incorporate with the
ground ; and, after this, they mend any cracks that may have
happened in it, either with the fame pencil or one that is fmal-
ler ; as has been fhewn before in water Gilding.
This kind of Gilding is chiefly ufed for domes and roofs of
churches, courts, banqueting-houfes, &c. and for figures of
plaifter of Paris, lead, &c.
Tlie method-of Gilding with liquid gold. This is performed
by gold reduced to a calx and amalgamated with mercury, in
the proportion of about an ounce of mercury to a drachm of gold.
To perform this, they heat a crucible red-hot, and then put
the gold and mercury into it, ftirring them gently about till the
gold be found melted, and incorporated into a mafs with the
mercury.
When