RefNo | CLP/3i/4/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Diagrams, method of making marbled paper by [John Evelyn] |
Date | January 1662 |
Description | Figures 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'. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | MS/776/128 |
MS/776/129 |
RelatedRecord | RBC/1/33 |
RBO/1/30 |
CLP/3i/4/1 |
CLP/3i/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8217 | Evelyn; John (1620 - 1706); antiquary, diarist, and gardener | 1620 - 1706 |
NA8261 | Moray; Sir; Robert (1608 - 1673); army officer and politician | 1608 - 1673 |