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HARRY WILLSON'S
GENERAL LANDSCAPE TINTS.
No. 1.--For foregrounds, and many parts of landscape; architecture; sands; roads, banks, lights of buildings (distant or near), shoal-water, corn-fields:--generally useful from its low brownish hue.
No. 2.--For many of the above purposes; and, being deeper in tone, adapted for shadows to No. 1.
No. 3.--Darker parts of foregrounds, banks, broken earth, waves, bark, timber, rocks, coasts, &c., useful in buildings and architecture. May be beautifully and usefully varied with white.
No. 4.--Lights of mountains, rocks, trees, distant ma.s.ses of foliage, figures and animals in light, autumnal tints in warm skies and sunsets;--applicable to most purposes of warm light, and to vary greens with.
No. 5.--For almost every part of landscape or buildings; rich lights of earth in suns.h.i.+ne; interiors, drapery;--applicable to numerous purposes, near or distant, and to mix with and vary other colours.
No. 6.--For skies in cloudy weather, and shadows of clouds;--various pearly greys are produced by its mixture with blues and lake. Mixed with burnt sienna, it produces different degrees of warm browns.
No. 7.--For shadows to mountains, distant clumps of foliage, drapery, &c., for mixing with general shadows: renders many beautiful tints by blending it with lakes blues and browns, especially with burnt sienna.
No. 8.--Used alone, in rocks, bark of trees, and many useful purposes; a.s.sumes a variety of browns when mixed with burnt sienna; and different greys, when added to the blues.
No. 9.--Useful in clouds, warm shadows, earth, mould;--mixed with cobalt, makes a good tint to vary other greys.
No. 10.--For skies in fine weather, and to vary shadows of distant hills, and otherwise useful in subduing retiring parts of drawings.
CHARLES SMITH'S, LATE SMITH & WARNER'S,
=SUPERIOR IMPROVED MOIST WATER COLOURS,=
Suitable for sketching from Nature, which retain their moisture for a length of time, freely and readily give their full force without the usual delay attending the Cake Colours; they dry instantly on paper, and are free from mildew or cracking.
=C. SMITH'S WATER COLOURS, FINELY PREPARED IN CAKES.=
. _s._ _d._
Ultramarine 1 1 0 Burnt Carmine 7 0 Carmine 5 0 Gall Stone 5 0 Smalt 5 0 Purple Madder 5 0 Pink Madder 3 0 Intense Blue 3 0 Intense Brown 3 0 French Blue 3 0 Lemon Yellow 3 0 Cobalt 2 0 Sepia 1 6 ---- Warm 1 6 Scarlet Lake 1 6 Crimson Lake 1 6 Purple Lake 1 6 Brown Madder 1 6 Indian Yellow 1 6 White, warranted permanent 1 6
=C. SMITH'S PERMANENT MOIST WHITE,=
So celebrated for its permanency and harmless nature, being quite free from lead; useful as lights upon Tinted Paper, without ever losing its brilliancy of Colour.
All the following One s.h.i.+lling per Cake.
Gamboge Yellow Ochre Roman Ochre Yellow Lake King's Yellow Italian Pink Pale Chrome Deep Chrome Orange Chrome Raw Sienna Burnt Sienna Brown Pink Red Lead Vermilion Light Red Venetian Red Indian Red Dragon's Blood Antwerp Blue Prussian Blue Indigo Verditer Raw Umber Indian Lake Cappah Brown Burnt Umber Vand.y.k.e Brown Bistre Cologne Earth Byrne's Brown Neutral Tint Payne's Grey British Ink Ivory Black Blue Black Lamp Black Sap Green Prussian Green Emerald Green Verdigris Olive Green Hooker's Greens Varley's Orange ---- Dark Green ---- Warm Green ---- Warm Grey ---- Purple Grey ---- Neutral Tint
*** The above Colours kept in Powder, Bladders, and Crude state.
=WILLSON'S PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE TINTS.=
C. Smith, being of opinion that a Set of Practical Landscape Tints were required, apart from the above positive Colours, engaged the services of the Author of this Work to a.s.sist in forming them, which is intended to accompany his instructions for their use, already printed. _See page 83._
They are now ready, and can be had by themselves, in a box, price 12_s._; or, with Sixteen other general Colours added, inclusive of French Blue, Pink Madder, Cobalt, &c., 1: 6_s._
34, Marylebone Street, Piccadilly, the end of the Quadrant, Regent Street, London.
=WATER COLOUR, FITTED UP IN BOXES, ETC.=
. _s._ _d._ Mahogany Slide Box, with 6 Colours and Brushes 0 6 0 ---- 12 Ditto 0 12 0 ---- 18 Ditto 0 18 0 ---- 24 Ditto 1 4 0 Mahogany Lock Box, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c. 0 16 0 ---- 12 Colours, Drawer, &c. 1 0 0 ---- 18 Ditto 1 7 0 ---- 24 Ditto 1 12 0 Mahogany Lock Box, with 12 Colours, Slab, Gla.s.s, &c. 1 1 0 ---- 12 Colours, Drawer, &c. 1 6 0 ---- 18 Ditto 1 15 0 ---- 24 Ditto 2 2 0 Mahogany Best Box, with 12 Colours, Gla.s.s Slab, &c. 1 12 0 ---- 18 Ditto 2 12 6 ---- 24 Ditto 3 3 0 Mahogany Best Box, with 12 Colours, Chalks, &c. 2 2 0 ---- 18 Ditto 3 3 0 ---- 24 Ditto 3 13 6 Rosewood Best Box, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c. 2 12 6 ---- 12 Colours, Chalk, &c. 3 3 0 ---- 18 Ditto 4 14 6 ---- 24 Ditto 5 5 0 Inlaid Rose and Satin Wood Boxes, 12 Colours, &c. 4 10 0 ---- 18 Ditto 5 10 0 ---- 24 Ditto 6 6 0 Mahogany Miniature Desk, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c. 2 2 0 Portable Ditto, Extra Colours 4 4 0 Boxes and Cabinets fitted up with every requisite for Painting in Oil and Water, from 6 6_s._ to 20 0 0 Mahogany Boxes, fitted up with Oil, Powder and Body Colours Mahogany Boxes of Liquid Colours, for Velvet and Poonah Painting Mahogany Boxes, with Slab and Indian Ink Mahogany and Tin Boxes, with Chalks &c., complete Tin Boxes fitted up with Moist Colours, &c.
=SUPERIOR HAIR PENCILS AND BRUSHES,=
Made of the Finest Sable Hair, Camel's Hair, &c., by the most perfect English and French artists. The largest possessing the Fine Elastic Points of the smallest, and with the advantage of containing a much greater quant.i.ty of Colour.
Red and Brown Sable Hair Pencils Camel Hair and Fitch ditto Sable and Camel Hair Pencils for Miniature Painting Sable and Camel Hair Writers French Hog and Goat Hair Tools, round and flat Sable, Fitch, and Camel Hair Tools, round and flat Badger Tools, for Blending, &c.
Badger, Fitch, Hog, and Camel Hair Brushes, round and flat, for varnis.h.i.+ng A variety of French Sable, Camel Hair, and other Brushes Water Colour Softeners Ivory Cases, to protect the points of Hair Pencils Large Hair Pencils, for was.h.i.+ng in clouds, &c.
Proutonian Sables, the largest ever made.
=C. SMITH'S INDELIBLE COLOURED INKS,=
REMBRANDT'S AND PROUT'S FAVOURITE TINTS FOR PEN SKETCHING, &c.
Sketches made in these Inks can be made Drawings, coloured over at any time without fear of disturbing the Original Sketch; particularly adapted for Prout's Architectural Subjects, such as the elaborate work of Churches, Cathedrals, and Buildings of Venice, &c.
=C. SMITH'S PURE c.u.mBERLAND LEAD PENCILS,=
EQUAL TO ANY MADE.
F For General Use FF Bold Sketching HB Middle Shade B Shading BB Black Shading BBB Extra Shading HHHH Finest Lines HHH Engineering HH Architecture H Fine Outline
Common Pencils for Schools, Pocket-Book Pencils, various. Also, Mordan's, Brookman and Langdon's, and Dobbs's Pencils.
