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Record ID 50401
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 50r
Handmaid to ye Arts
Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/5 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 5 May 1768.
John Robison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: John Robison. Life dates: 1739-1805.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the arts.
Press: N. Shelf: 6. Number: 30. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bn3-k.9. Original Author: Dossie, Robert..
Confidence level: Certain
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
The handmaid to the arts, teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The several devices employed for the more easily and accurately making designs from nature, or depicted representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busts, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine gold and silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions:-the art of japanning as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced:-and the method of staining different kinds of substances with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to artists; as to initiate those, who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, enamel, varnish, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 13
ESTC: T116409
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the Arts
Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/5 (Thursday).
Borrower: John Robison
Author: Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777), Genre: Fine Arts
Record ID 54559
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 101r
Handmaid to the Arts } For M.r N. Hill
Borrowed: 1775/3/13 (Monday). Returned: 1775/9/23 (Saturday). Original Borrowed Date: 13 Mar 1775. Original Returned Date: 23 Sep 1775.
Thomas Hamilton
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Class: Theology. Original Full Name: Thos. Hamilton.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student.
Mr N. Hill
Gender: Male.
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the arts.
Press: N. Shelf: 6. Number: 30. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bn3-k.9. Original Author: Dossie, Robert..
Confidence level: Certain
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
The handmaid to the arts, teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The several devices employed for the more easily and accurately making designs from nature, or depicted representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busts, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine gold and silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions:-the art of japanning as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced:-and the method of staining different kinds of substances with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to artists; as to initiate those, who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, enamel, varnish, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 13
ESTC: T116409
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the Arts
Borrowed: 1775/3/13 (Monday). Returned: 1775/9/23 (Saturday).
Borrowers: Thomas Hamilton , Mr N. Hill
Author: Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777), Genre: Fine Arts