The painter and varnisher's guide, or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes, on the different kinds of painting ; and on the method of preparing colours both simple and compound ...
A 1804 London treatise by the Genevan chemist Pierre François Tingry, printed for G. Kearsley, written as a practical guide for painters and varnishers on making varnishes, paints and colours. The plates show equipment and processes of the period: a tall stacked kiln or tower with a man tending fire, a cylindrical vat or furnace beside a sloping timber structure, and a diagram of a wooden framework drawn in pale line work, giving a designer hand-drawn engraving texture and an industrial workshop feel.
