Record

RefNoCLP/3i/4/2
LevelItem
TitleDiagrams, method of making marbled paper by [John Evelyn]
DateJanuary 1662
DescriptionFigures 1-3, drawn within the margins, showing how to make marbled paper. Figure 1 shows a pointed stick with which the liquid, sprinkled with several colours, is mixed. Figure 2 indicates how the pointed stick should be moved diagonally across the surface of the liquid in a trough. Figure 3 shows a comb used to comb the surface from one end of the trough to the other.

Subject: Art / Chemistry

Read to the Royal Society on 8 January 1661 [1662]. Two weeks later, Evelyn's method was actually tried and it 'succeeded'.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialMS/776/128
MS/776/129
RelatedRecordRBC/1/33
RBO/1/30
CLP/3i/4/1
CLP/3i/4
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8217Evelyn; John (1620 - 1706); antiquary, diarist, and gardener1620 - 1706
NA8261Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician1608 - 1673
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