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Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
To make coloured Foliage upon a Ground of Gold.
Press in the foregoing manner your Tin, that it enter and cover the Ground and Fo∣liage, then paint your Foliage with what co∣lour you will, laying your gilt Leaf as before.
Page 355There may be made Works, where the Figures shall be of Gold on a coloured Ground, when the Colours of the Ground are laid; the Leaf of Tin being out of the Mould and dry, draw with a Pencil the Lines and Shadows of the Hatchings with the same Colour, which may be counter-drawn, reinforced, and heightned, before your Leaves of Tin are laid on the Fi∣gure.
