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VER 353
But the method of making it in England is as follows:
The refiners pour a fufficient quantity of their ccpper W2ter
on a hundred pounds weight of whiting, ftirring them well to-
gether every day for fome hours, till the wafer grows pale ; then
they pour that off, and fet it by for further ule, and pour on more
of the green water, repeating this till the V erditer is made ; which
they then take out, and lay on large pieces of chalk in the fun
to dry.
The water which is poured off from the Verditer, which re-
mains at the bottom of the tub, is put into a copper, and boiled
till it comes to the conftftence of water-gruel ; now confifting
principally of faltpetre reduced, mofr. of the fpirit of vitriol being
gone with the copper into the Verditer : And a difh full of this,
being put into the other materials for aqua-fortis, is rediftilled,
and makes what they call a double water, which is near twice
as good as that made without it.
Henry VERGAZOON, was a Dutch painter of lands and
ruins, but chiefly the latter, which he performed exceeding
neatly ; his colouring was very natural, but his landfcape part
commonly too dark and gloomy, appearing as if it had been
drawn for a night-piece : He painted fometimes (mail portraits,
which were very curious. He left England feveral years ago,
and died in France.
VERITY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a naked beau-
ty, holding a fun in her right hand, in her left a book open with
a palm, and under one foot the globe of the world.— Naked,
bee ismrighl fimplicitv is natural to her; the fun fhews
her :at del ght in clearnefs ; the book, that the truth of things
may >e found in good authors; the palm, her rifng the more
fhe is lepreflad; the globe, that, being immortal, fhe is the
flrongeft or all things in the world, therefore tramples on it.
VERMILION, is a very bright beautiful red colour, in great
efreem among the ancients under the name of minium.
There are two kinds of it, the one natural, and the other fac-
titious.
The natural is found in fome fiver mines in the form of a
ruddy fand, which is afterwards prepared and purified by feveral
lotions and codfions.
The artificial is m. i of mineral cinnabar, ground up with
aqua-vitae and urine, a ' afterwards dried.
It is alfo made of lead burnt and wained, or of cerufs pre-
pared by fire : But this is not properly called Vermilion, but red
lead.
Yet this lair, however, feems to be the real Vermilion cf the
ancients, and both apothecaries and painters ftill give it th ; name
to enhance the prke.
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But the method of making it in England is as follows:
The refiners pour a fufficient quantity of their ccpper W2ter
on a hundred pounds weight of whiting, ftirring them well to-
gether every day for fome hours, till the wafer grows pale ; then
they pour that off, and fet it by for further ule, and pour on more
of the green water, repeating this till the V erditer is made ; which
they then take out, and lay on large pieces of chalk in the fun
to dry.
The water which is poured off from the Verditer, which re-
mains at the bottom of the tub, is put into a copper, and boiled
till it comes to the conftftence of water-gruel ; now confifting
principally of faltpetre reduced, mofr. of the fpirit of vitriol being
gone with the copper into the Verditer : And a difh full of this,
being put into the other materials for aqua-fortis, is rediftilled,
and makes what they call a double water, which is near twice
as good as that made without it.
Henry VERGAZOON, was a Dutch painter of lands and
ruins, but chiefly the latter, which he performed exceeding
neatly ; his colouring was very natural, but his landfcape part
commonly too dark and gloomy, appearing as if it had been
drawn for a night-piece : He painted fometimes (mail portraits,
which were very curious. He left England feveral years ago,
and died in France.
VERITY, is reprefented, in painting, &c. by a naked beau-
ty, holding a fun in her right hand, in her left a book open with
a palm, and under one foot the globe of the world.— Naked,
bee ismrighl fimplicitv is natural to her; the fun fhews
her :at del ght in clearnefs ; the book, that the truth of things
may >e found in good authors; the palm, her rifng the more
fhe is lepreflad; the globe, that, being immortal, fhe is the
flrongeft or all things in the world, therefore tramples on it.
VERMILION, is a very bright beautiful red colour, in great
efreem among the ancients under the name of minium.
There are two kinds of it, the one natural, and the other fac-
titious.
The natural is found in fome fiver mines in the form of a
ruddy fand, which is afterwards prepared and purified by feveral
lotions and codfions.
The artificial is m. i of mineral cinnabar, ground up with
aqua-vitae and urine, a ' afterwards dried.
It is alfo made of lead burnt and wained, or of cerufs pre-
pared by fire : But this is not properly called Vermilion, but red
lead.
Yet this lair, however, feems to be the real Vermilion cf the
ancients, and both apothecaries and painters ftill give it th ; name
to enhance the prke.
Vol. II. A a We