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Researching the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
  Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PAINT MATERIALS 
AND THE PAINTERS CRAFT AS PRACTICED IN LOUISBOURG

TRAINING MANUAL

BY

A. Storm

May 1982

(Fortress of Louisbourg
Report H G 05)


Appendix I

Table of Recorded Paint Materials in 18th Century Louisbourg, from Primary Documentation, (see Notes to Appendix I).

Red Ochre - Dry & ground in oil

Yellow Ochre - Dry & ground in oil

Spanish White - (in cakes)

White Lead, ceruse - Dry & ground in oil

Litharge -

Red Lead, minium -

Prepared/burnt/Umber -

Lampblack - Dry & ground in oil

Cendre bleue/Sanders blue/ - Dry & Vitriol (Copper sulphate)

Blanc d'Azur/Blue verditer/ - Dry

Bleu d'Azur/Paris blue/ - Dry

Indigo -

Cendre blanc/oystershell white -

Vert de gris/Verdigris/ - Dry

Vert de Vessie /distilled verdigrise -

Vermilion/cinnabar -

Carmine -

Linseed oil

Nut oil

Fish oil

Spermaceti oil

Spanish wax

Turpentine

Gomme Gutta/percha/a gum resin

Gum Arabic

Sandarac/a natural resin

Bois de Gayac/Guayacum, a natural resin

Glue/fish-or animal

Starch

Chaux/lime & clayey earth

Tar/brai & goudron

Vieux oing/old tallow Sulphur

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