NEW WORK ON PAINTING.
Just ready, in small 8vo, with Frontispiece and Vignette,
PAINTINGPOPULARLY EXPLAINED;
WITH
The Practice of the Art,
AND
HISTORICAL NOTICES OF ITS PROGRESS.
BY
THOMAS J. GULLICK, Painter,
AND
JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
The plan of this work is thus sketched in the Introduction:
“There have been in the history of Art, four grand styles ofimitating Nature—Tempera, Encaustic, Fresco, and Oil. These,together with the minor modes of Painting, we propose arrangingin something like chronological sequence; but our design being tooffer an explanation of the Art derived from practical acquaintance,rather than attempt to give its history, we shall confine ourselvesfor the most part to so much only of the History of Painting as isnecessary to elucidate the origin of the different practices which haveobtained at different periods.”
By this means, the Authors hope to produce a work which maybe valuable to the Amateur, and interesting to the Connoisseur, theArtist, and the General Reader.
LONDON:
KENT & CO. (late Bogue), FLEET STREET.
MOUTH OF THE GREAT ROSSE TELESCOPE, AT PARSONSTOWN.
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
Things not generally Known
Familiarly Explained.
CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE,
Past and Present.
A BOOK FOR OLD AND YOUNG.
By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
AUTHOR OF THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN; AND EDITOR OF THE
YEAR-BOOK OF FACTS.
Model of the Safety-Lamp, made by Sir Humphry Davy’s own hands;
in the possession of the Royal Society.
LONDON:
KENT AND CO. (late BOGUE), FLEET STREET.
MDCCCLVIII.
The Author reserves the right of authorising a Translation of this Work.
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Gentle Reader,
The volume of “Curiosities” which I here present to yournotice is a portion of the result of a long course of reading, observation,and research, necessary for the compilation of thirty volumesof “Arcana of Science” and “Year-Book of Facts,” publishedfrom 1828 to 1858. Throughout this period—nearly half of thePsa