Hints for painters, decorators, and paper-hangers. / Being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods, and suggestions for house, ship and furniture painting, paper-hanging, gilding, color mixing, and other matters useful and instructive to painters and decorators. Prepared with special reference to the wants of amateurs

by An Old Hand

Purple.—White, Prussian blue and vermilion.

Red, Dark.—English Venetian, red lead and litharge.

Red, Light.—Venetian red, and red lead in equal parts.

Red, Deep.—Vermilion, with a very small quantity of red lead.

Stone.—White, with a little spruce ochre.

Straw.—White lead and yellow.

Snuff.—Yellow, sienna and red.

Slate.—White lead, black, red and blue.

Steel.—Ceruse, Prussian blue, fine lac and vermilion.

Salmon.—White lead, yellow and red.