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Record ID 200090
Library: Advocates Library. Register: F.R.262a/15 (1788-1789, Type: Other). Page: 224
Handmaid to the Arts 2 vol 8vo
Borrowed: 1789/5/25 (Monday). Returned: 1789/6/25 (Thursday).
Mr Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee
Gender: Male.
Admission date: 1770. Life dates: 1747-1813.
Occupation (normalised): Arts and Letters > Author. Education > University Professor. Law > Advocate. Law > Lord of Session/Senator of the College of Justice.
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the arts [Dossie]
Possible modern shelfmark: Bl.4/2.17-18.
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2
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 means of delineation, or 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, busis, 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.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1764. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 2 times in 1 borrowing record
ESTC: T125947
Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the Arts
Borrowed: 1789/5/25 (Monday). Returned: 1789/6/25 (Thursday).
Borrower: Mr Alexander Fraser Tytler Lord Woodhouselee
Author: Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777), Genre: Fine Arts
Volumes borrowed: Volume 1, Volume 2