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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19951#0005
PREFACE.
The Art of Painting in Water Colours has attained,
in this country, so high a state of perfection, as to be
undoubtedly placed in successful competition with the
time-honoured sister art of oil-painting. This result
is due, in no small degree, to the superiority of the
materials now in use, in comparison with those of the
early school of the art; as well as to a more extensive
appreciation of the powers of colour, a better taste, and a
bolder manipulation.
The imperfect mode of the preparation of the old cake-
colours rendered their use extremely inconvenient and
irksome : the resulting defects were, however, submitted
to patiently enough, so long as the objects of the art
were limited to a hard outline filled in with light and
shade, produced by a few monotonous washes of Indian
Ink or Neutral Tint. *
The successful attempts in the manufacture of the
cake-colours, which, from being hard and gritty, be-
came comparatively smooth, and yielding a firmer body
The Art of Painting in Water Colours has attained,
in this country, so high a state of perfection, as to be
undoubtedly placed in successful competition with the
time-honoured sister art of oil-painting. This result
is due, in no small degree, to the superiority of the
materials now in use, in comparison with those of the
early school of the art; as well as to a more extensive
appreciation of the powers of colour, a better taste, and a
bolder manipulation.
The imperfect mode of the preparation of the old cake-
colours rendered their use extremely inconvenient and
irksome : the resulting defects were, however, submitted
to patiently enough, so long as the objects of the art
were limited to a hard outline filled in with light and
shade, produced by a few monotonous washes of Indian
Ink or Neutral Tint. *
The successful attempts in the manufacture of the
cake-colours, which, from being hard and gritty, be-
came comparatively smooth, and yielding a firmer body