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'An Account Of a Secret in the Use of Painting In Answer to the Command of the Royal Society and brought in by Mr Povey'

Reference number: RBO/3/69

Date: 1667

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Details about making paint with eggs and figs - about painting in oil, distemper and dry colours
Read to the Royal Society on 19 December 1667

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RBO/3/69
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1667
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Povey

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Thomas Povey, 'An Account Of a Secret in the Use of Painting In Answer to the Command of the Royal Society and brought in by Mr Povey', 1667, RBO/3/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_69/an-account-of-a-secret-in-the-use-of-painting-in-answer-to-the-command-of-the-royal-society-and-brought-in-by-mr-povey, accessed on 11 December 2024

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