Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

How to lay Gold in Oyl upon blackned Frames, where the Gold appears very fair, and the Black very shining, without being var∣nished.

Your Work being laid with White, black∣ned and burnished, as aforesaid, take Gold Colour, and with your Pencil, which must be very long and fine, paint what you intend to gild, lackring with your Gold-Colour what you will, be it the Proportion of a Leaf, which you may afterward, if you please, hatch with your Pencil; being dry, as it ought, lay on your Gold the most exactly you can; then with a Feather brush off the Gold which does not stick. By this means you shall have branched Works, or Moresk Works very compleat, for as much as the Gold will not stick on the Ground which hath been burnished; but your Gold Co∣lour must be very good, else you will not attain your Design. Now if you will repre∣sent Birds, or Figures, you may lay them with your Pencil; then being gilt, draw them with a Pencil of Black in Oyl, and hatch the Shadows with the Pencil as neatly as is possible. There are made Frames hatched in this manner, which seem to be of Copper, gilt and engraven. But remember to hatch the Shadows upon the Figures.