The Artists Assistant

Oil Painting Instruction Manuals and Handbooks in Britain 1800-1900
With Reference to selected Eighteenth-century Sources, by Leslie Carlyle

In her meticulously researched study, Dr. Leslie Carlyle has examined many artists' manuals, catalogues, and trade journals produced in Britain and later in the United States, during this period of transition in artists' materials and techniques. She has compared all the extand editions of widely reprinted books, and sought out publications, which although obscure now, were highly influential in their time. Recipes for varnishes, vehicles, paint mediums and grounds have been compared and tabulated. Methods of painting have been described, and the "artistical" properties of pigments, their working qualities, drying times and cautionary notes on their use, have all been compiled in an extensive appendix. Das Standardwerk über Malmittel des 19. Jahrhunderts.

Hardcover, 297 x 210 mm, 608 pages, 43 tables, 106 illustrations

€154.-