GUM WATER (n.)

EAU DE GOMME (fra.) · EAU GOMMÉE (fra.)
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EAU GOMMÉE (fra.)

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SECT. I. Of Gums and Gum waters used in Limning.
The principal Gum is
Gum-Arabick ; get the best that may be, which you shall know by the whiteness and clearness ; if it be yellowish, of an Amber colour, it is naught.
To make Gum-water hereof, do thus […].


Of GUM-LAKE.
Gum-Lake is a compounded Gum made of many ingredients, as of whites of Eggs beaten and strained, of Honey, Gum of Ivy, strong Wort ; these ingredients mingled together will at last run like an Oyl, which at last will congeal and be hard. Trouble not your self to make it, but buy it ready made ; chuse it as you do the Gum-Arabick by the clearness, and then you need not fear it. […].


Of GUM-ARMONIACK.
Of this Gum you may make a Water, that whatsoever you write therewith you may lay in
Gold.
The manner of making the Water is thus […].

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MATERIALITE DE L’ŒUVRE → technique de la peinture