The definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this medium in American buildings from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Contains a survey of practices and materials in England, cutting-edge techniques used by today's researchers in examining historic paints, fascinating case studies and an important chart of early American paint colors. Explains how to identify pigments and media, how to prepare surfaces for application and apply paint. Includes the chemical properties of paint with a table of paint components, plus a glossary and bibliography.
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The definitive volume on how paint has been used in the U.S. in the last 250 years. Eminent contributors cover the history of this medium in American buildings from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Contains a survey of practices and materials in England, cutting-edge techniques used by today's researchers in examining historic paints, fascinating case studies and an important chart of early American paint colors. Explains how to identify pigments and media, how to prepare surfaces for application and apply paint. Includes the chemical properties of paint with a table of paint components, plus a glossary and bibliography.
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Extensive accounts of the day-to-day work of colonial painters exist only for Boston but similar if less abundant records in other major port towns begin about the time of the American Revolution and continue into the early years of the new republic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
color reference cards, principal coloring matter, synthetic inorganic pigment, architectural paints, historic paint, paint analysis, decorative wall painting, artificial pigment, binding media, summer beam, paint research, ship painting, paint samples, house paints, synthetic pigment, yellow ocher, adhesion problems, color research, exterior decoration, red iron oxide, earth pigments, decorative painters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Mount Vernon, Warner House, Hampton Falls, New York, Historic Area, George Washington, Hezekiah Reynolds, Colonial Williamsburg, New Hampshire, Civil War, George Tucker, Edward Pell, Bixby House, Daniel Rea, Survey of Paint Technology, United States, World War, Barraud House, Mohawk Indian, Morgan Phillips, New Jersey, Thomas Child, Thomas Jefferson, Barre Four Corners New!
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Extensive accounts of the day-to-day work of colonial painters exist only for Boston but similar if less abundant records in other major port towns begin about the time of the American Revolution and continue into the early years of the new republic. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
color reference cards, principal coloring matter, synthetic inorganic pigment, architectural paints, historic paint, paint analysis, decorative wall painting, artificial pigment, binding media, summer beam, paint research, ship painting, paint samples, house paints, synthetic pigment, yellow ocher, adhesion problems, color research, exterior decoration, red iron oxide, earth pigments, decorative painters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, Mount Vernon, Warner House, Hampton Falls, New York, Historic Area, George Washington, Hezekiah Reynolds, Colonial Williamsburg, New Hampshire, Civil War, George Tucker, Edward Pell, Bixby House, Daniel Rea, Survey of Paint Technology, United States, World War, Barraud House, Mohawk Indian, Morgan Phillips, New Jersey, Thomas Child, Thomas Jefferson, Barre Four Corners New!
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- Painting Materials: A Short Encyclopedia (Dover Art Instruction) by R. J. Gettens on 5 pages
- Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects, Second Edition (Conservation and Museology) by John Mills on 4 pages
- The Interiors Handbook for Historic Buildings by Charles E. Fisher in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Conservation of Wall Paintings (Butterworth - Heinemann Series in Conservation and Museology) by Paolo Mora in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Architecture of Country Houses (Dover Architecture) by Andrew J. Downing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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