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Title: The Decorator's assistant
Year: 1847 (1840s)
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Subjects: Design Decoration and ornament Art
Publisher: (London : W. Gibbs)
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or marbling, graining, &c.,previously mixed with the dryer, are then laidon, and when dry will not require varnish. Inapplying these colours to paper-hangings noalteration whatever is required to be made inthe common process, and for the purpose ofsatining or watering paper, or enamelled cards,the zinc white is employed instead of the whitelead now commonly used. To Silver Copper.—Precipitate silver fromits nitric solution, by the immersion of polishedplates of copper. Take of this silver, 20grains ; of supertartrate of potass, 2 drachms ;of common salt, 2 drachms ; and of alum \ adrachm ; mix the whole well together. Thentake the article to be silvered, clean it well, andrub some of the mixture, previously a littlemoistened, upon its surface; the silveredsurface may be polished with a piece ofsoft leather. The dial-plates of clocksscales of barometers, &c., are all platedthus. THE DECORATOR S ASSISTANT. <©n ft^$ Application of <©t;nament» (Continued from page 180.)
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our consideration, harmony, as an attendantupon proportion, is the next claimant; and ^ upon this subject we havesomething to say. Takingcreation as our model andnature as our guide, wewould fain linger amid therealms of beauty, andgather knowledge as wewould gather flowers—rather as a labour of lovethan necessity;—but yet,another power claims ourveneration—even as pru-dence claims it of us asmen of the world; andthis power is Art. Notalone are her counselsvaluable on account ofthe mastery which shpossesses and maintains,forming, as they do, the leading-strings, as itwere, of our earliest attempts—our earliesthomage should most certainly be paid at theshrine of her who has the power of pointingout the road of Fame—a road, alas, but toooften travelled, fruitless and futile, by recklessambition ! Genius, in itself, too often tempted to castoff the trammels of Art, degenerates topuerility ; Education being required, but toooften proves her loss in failure; and the pre-cocious c

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