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Glass painting and staining

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

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Henry Gyles: Some Rules for Painting upon Messo Tinto Justly Imparted

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4024
Scope and Contents

Probably written in Gyles' own hand, 12 folios: (fo. 1): 'Treatise in Autograph of Henry Gyles Glasspainter on Coloring Mezzotints & transferring them to glass' (19th century hand); (fo. 11v) red crayon drawings of human figures and a man-of-war, roughly contemporary with the text.

Dates: 1680 (Circa)
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