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drofs, will not incorporate with the reft; take it off, and let it
ftand two days to fettle, pour it off clear, and keep it for ufe.
As this is only to fecure the gold, you muft be very careful in
laying it on, that it touch not the leaft part of your ground, nor
any thing but the gold. If there are colours mixed amongft it,
finifh it up with the white Varnifh. If the defign be all gold,
finifh it with the following Varnifh.
N. B. The gold muft be palled over twice or thrice with th«
fecuring Varnifh.
The finijhing Varnish for gold work. Take one pound of
Venice turpentine, three pints of water; put them into art
earthen pipkin, big enough to hold twice the quantity; place
them over a gentle fire, and let it warm by degrees till it begins
to bubble up : Then keeping it always ftirring with a flick, that
it may boil leifurely for fome time, pour fome of this liquor or»
the ground ; and, when it is cold, if it crumbles to powder in
your fingers, it is boiled enough. Set it by till it is cool enough
to take into your hands, and fqueefe the water intirely out of it;
then make it into a ball, and after a day or two beat it into fine
powder for your ufe ; fet it in a very dry place, but not near the
fire, for that will melt it. Put one ounce of this powdered tur-
pentine to half a pint of the beft feed-lac Varnifh ; put it in a bot-
tle that will hold twice as much clofe flopped ; when it has flood
fome time on a gentle fire, take it off, unftop, and fhake it.
Continue this till the turpentine be diffolved to the bignefs of a
Urge pea ; fet it by two days z& cool and fettle, then pour off the
cleareft for your work. Six or eight times varnifhing will do,
but you muft ufe your own judgment according to the colour
of the gold. Let it ftand three weeks or a month before you
polifh.
Giorgio VASARI, born in the year 1514, fcholar of Mi-
chael Angelo and Andrea del Sarto, lived at Pifa, Bologna, Flo-
rence, Venice, Naples, Rome, &c. excelled in hiftory, por-
traits, and architecture; died in the year 1578, aged fixty-four
years.
V. C. Ggnifies Vincenzio Caccianemici, a nobleman of Bo-
logna, and painter,
V. C. V. a mark ufed by an ancient engraver in a St. Bar-
tholomew and a St. George.
Titiano VECELLI da Cadore, born in the year 1477, fcho-
lar of Gio Bellini and Giorgione, lived at Venice, excelled in
hiftory-painting, portraits, and landfcapes; died in 1576, aged
ninety-nine years.
VENEERING, ?is a kind of marquetry or inlaying; by
VANEERING, i winch feverai thin flice* or leaves of line
vvoocis
drofs, will not incorporate with the reft; take it off, and let it
ftand two days to fettle, pour it off clear, and keep it for ufe.
As this is only to fecure the gold, you muft be very careful in
laying it on, that it touch not the leaft part of your ground, nor
any thing but the gold. If there are colours mixed amongft it,
finifh it up with the white Varnifh. If the defign be all gold,
finifh it with the following Varnifh.
N. B. The gold muft be palled over twice or thrice with th«
fecuring Varnifh.
The finijhing Varnish for gold work. Take one pound of
Venice turpentine, three pints of water; put them into art
earthen pipkin, big enough to hold twice the quantity; place
them over a gentle fire, and let it warm by degrees till it begins
to bubble up : Then keeping it always ftirring with a flick, that
it may boil leifurely for fome time, pour fome of this liquor or»
the ground ; and, when it is cold, if it crumbles to powder in
your fingers, it is boiled enough. Set it by till it is cool enough
to take into your hands, and fqueefe the water intirely out of it;
then make it into a ball, and after a day or two beat it into fine
powder for your ufe ; fet it in a very dry place, but not near the
fire, for that will melt it. Put one ounce of this powdered tur-
pentine to half a pint of the beft feed-lac Varnifh ; put it in a bot-
tle that will hold twice as much clofe flopped ; when it has flood
fome time on a gentle fire, take it off, unftop, and fhake it.
Continue this till the turpentine be diffolved to the bignefs of a
Urge pea ; fet it by two days z& cool and fettle, then pour off the
cleareft for your work. Six or eight times varnifhing will do,
but you muft ufe your own judgment according to the colour
of the gold. Let it ftand three weeks or a month before you
polifh.
Giorgio VASARI, born in the year 1514, fcholar of Mi-
chael Angelo and Andrea del Sarto, lived at Pifa, Bologna, Flo-
rence, Venice, Naples, Rome, &c. excelled in hiftory, por-
traits, and architecture; died in the year 1578, aged fixty-four
years.
V. C. Ggnifies Vincenzio Caccianemici, a nobleman of Bo-
logna, and painter,
V. C. V. a mark ufed by an ancient engraver in a St. Bar-
tholomew and a St. George.
Titiano VECELLI da Cadore, born in the year 1477, fcho-
lar of Gio Bellini and Giorgione, lived at Venice, excelled in
hiftory-painting, portraits, and landfcapes; died in 1576, aged
ninety-nine years.
VENEERING, ?is a kind of marquetry or inlaying; by
VANEERING, i winch feverai thin flice* or leaves of line
vvoocis