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The Use of a Box of Colours

by Harry Willson

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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.
Ultramarine110
Burnt Carmine70
Carmine50
Gall Stone50
Smalt50
Purple Madder50
Pink Madder30
Intense Blue30
Intense Brown30
French Blue30
Lemon Yellow30
Cobalt20
Sepia16
—— Warm16
Scarlet Lake16
Crimson Lake16
Purple Lake16
Brown Madder16
Indian Yellow16
White, warranted permanent16

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 Shilling per Cake.

GambogeRed LeadCappah BrownSap Green
Yellow OchreVermilionBurnt UmberPrussian Green
Roman OchreLight RedVandyke BrownEmerald Green
Yellow LakeVenetian RedBistreVerdigris
King’s YellowIndian RedCologne EarthOlive Green
Italian PinkDragon’s BloodByrne’s BrownHooker’s Greens
Pale ChromeAntwerp BlueNeutral TintVarley’s Orange
Deep ChromePrussian BluePayne’s Grey—— Dark Green
Orange ChromeIndigoBritish Ink—— Warm Green
Raw SiennaVerditerIvory Black—— Warm Grey
Burnt SiennaRaw UmberBlue Black—— Purple Grey
Brown PinkIndian LakeLamp Black—— 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 assist 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 12s.; or, with Sixteen other general Colours added, inclusive of French Blue, Pink Madder, Cobalt, &c., £1: 6s.


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 Brushes060
—— 12 Ditto0120
—— 18 Ditto0180
—— 24 Ditto140
Mahogany Lock Box, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c.0160
—— 12 Colours, Drawer, &c.100
—— 18 Ditto170
—— 24 Ditto1120
Mahogany Lock Box, with 12 Colours, Slab, Glass, &c.110
—— 12 Colours, Drawer, &c.160
—— 18 Ditto1150
—— 24 Ditto220
Mahogany Best Box, with 12 Colours, Glass Slab, &c.1120
—— 18 Ditto2126
—— 24 Ditto330
Mahogany Best Box, with 12 Colours, Chalks, &c.220
—— 18 Ditto330
—— 24 Ditto3136
Rosewood Best Box, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c.2126
—— 12 Colours, Chalk, &c.330
—— 18 Ditto4146
—— 24 Ditto550
Inlaid Rose and Satin Wood Boxes, 12 Colours, &c.4100
—— 18 Ditto5100
—— 24 Ditto660
Mahogany Miniature Desk, with 12 Colours, Brushes, &c.220
Portable Ditto, Extra Colours440
Boxes and Cabinets fitted up with every requisite for Painting in
Oil and Water, from £6 6s. to
2000
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 quantity 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 varnishing
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 washing 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 Cumberland Lead Pencils

EQUAL TO ANY MADE.

FFor General Use
FFBold Sketching
HBMiddle Shade
BShading
BBBlack Shading
BBBExtra Shading
HHHHFinest Lines
HHHEngineering
HHArchitecture
HFine Outline

Common Pencils for Schools, Pocket-Book Pencils, various. Also, Mordan’s, Brookman and Langdon’s, and Dobbs’s Pencils.


34, Marylebone Street, Piccadilly, the end of the Quadrant, Regent Street, London.


Solid Sketch Books

With Compressed Leaves, made of thin and thick White, Drab, Yellow, and Grey Drawing Papers, forming a solid packet of thirty or forty leaves, each of which can be easily separated from the others by the introduction of a pen-knife underneath.


Wove and Cartridge Drawing Papers

Demy20 by 15
Medium22 — 17
Royal24 — 19
Super Royal27 — 19
Imperial30 — 21
Colombier34 — 23
Atlas34 — 26
Double Elephant40 — 26
Antiquarian52 — 31
Extra Antiquarian56 — 40

Emperor, the largest size paper, 68 inches by 48 inches.
Rough, Extra-thick, Tinted, and Hot pressed Papers, Drawing Cartridge Papers, for Architects, &c., Crayon, Tinted, London and Bristol Boards, English and French Tracing Papers, to 60 in. by 40 in.

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