Smith, Thomas [Editor]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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MATERIALS.

necessary to warn the student ; that is, the foolish
waste of money in the purchase of large and expensive
boxes of colours; a half a guinea box, as they are called,
with twelve cakes of colours and four or five brushes
will be more than sufficient for every department of the
art. I have subjoined a list of the colours which a box
of twelve cakes ought to contain.

Indigo

Prussian blue
Venetian red
Lake

Yellow ochre

Gamboge, or Italian pink*

Raw umber
Vandyke brown
Burnt sienna
Burnt umber
Sepia

Lamp black.

There are many other colours which are extremely
useful, and might be substituted for several of those
marked above : of these we shall take notice hereafter
when we speak of colouring.

Sponges are used either to wash drawings, or to
damp paper before it is stretched on the board, and
should be chosen soft and elastic, of a fine texture, and
free from grit, stones, and bits of sea-shells, which are
often found in them.

* The term Pink, though generally understood to mean a pale
rose colour, signifies any colour which is made by precipitation.
Italian pink is a bright yellow'.