A handbook for painters and art students on the character, nature, and use of colours, their permanent or fugitive qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ : also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours
A technical handbook by William J. Muckley, published in London by Baillière, Tindall and Cox in 1882, written for painters and art students on pigments, their permanence, and the media suited to them. The two pictures are small decorative devices: a peacock with its tail fanned out in a wood-engraved panel, and a crowned monogram of VR flanked by thistle, shamrock and rose motifs. A designer might take from them the compact, self-contained vignette format and the dense black-and-white line work suited to bookplates or small emblems.
