Skip to contentThe decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood; verd antique, dove, sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles; in oil or distemper colour : designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stenciling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows | Collections | The Huntington
The decorative painters' and glaziers' guide : containing the most approved methods of imitating oak, mahogany, maple, rose, cedar, coral, and every other kind of fancy wood; verd antique, dove, sienna, porphyry, white veined, and other marbles; in oil or distemper colour : designs for decorating apartments, in accordance with the various styles of architecture; with directions for stenciling, and process for destroying damp in walls; also a complete body of information on the art of staining and painting on glass; plans for the erection of apparatus for annealing it; and the method of joining figures together by leading, with examples from ancient windows
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005 This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was donated to The Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.