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Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oil painting : being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier, with additional matter selected from the labors of Merimee, de Montabert and other distinguished continental writers on art. In seven parts: I. Materials and implements of the art. II. Certain matters holding a middle place between the materials and practice. III. The first-palette, or deadcoloring. IV. The second or finishing palette. V. The painting of draperies. VI. Landscapepainting[sic]. VII. The varnishing, cleaning, repairing, and lining of pictures. The whole adapted by the method of its arrangements and the completeness of its detail as well for a textbook in academies of both sexes as for selfinstruction[sic]. Appended, A new explanatory and critical vocabulary