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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19955#0013
A TREATISE
ON
MINIATURE PAINTING.
There are three kinds of materials on which miniatures
are painted, namely: ivory, paper, and vellum; but as the
first two are the most usual in England, I shall confine
my remarks to them.
Painting on parchment or vellum is practised in Erance,
and on the continent generally; but parchment being a
material inferior to ivory and Bristol board, its use has
become obsolete in England.
IVORY.
The first thing necessary to be attended to, is the choice
of ivory. Of this there are two sorts,—hard ivory, which
is generally prepared; and soft or absorbing ivory, which,
ON
MINIATURE PAINTING.
There are three kinds of materials on which miniatures
are painted, namely: ivory, paper, and vellum; but as the
first two are the most usual in England, I shall confine
my remarks to them.
Painting on parchment or vellum is practised in Erance,
and on the continent generally; but parchment being a
material inferior to ivory and Bristol board, its use has
become obsolete in England.
IVORY.
The first thing necessary to be attended to, is the choice
of ivory. Of this there are two sorts,—hard ivory, which
is generally prepared; and soft or absorbing ivory, which,