Title

To Paint Grates Black

Date

1694/1795

Description

A recipe for making a black paint using a red-tinted lead-based pigment

Transcript

One Penny worth of Lithrage of Gold boil in it a Pint of Painters Oil and add a little lamp black or soot. Barnabus Hall.

Subject

See all items with this valuecarbon black

See all items with this valuelitharge

See all items with this valuesoot

See all items with this valuelinseed oil

See all items with this valuepainting (finishing)

See all items with this valuepaint

Contributor

Ochsner, Elizabeth

Le, Vincent

Grimm, Stephanie

Salahuddin, Shafiya

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.