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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
linder of fine pipe-clay colored with a pigment. Black crayons are colored with plumbago, or made of Italian black chalk. A white crayon is a cylinder of chalk, common in England and France. Red chalk is found in France. The holder is a porte-crayon. Crayons are said to have been made in France in 1422, and imported thence into England in 1748. It is hard to say how long ago charcoal, chalk, and ochreous earths were used. Hans Holbein drew portraits in crayon in 1540. Sir Thomas Lawrence excelled in this style of portrait-painting, 1800 – 1830. 2. (Lithography.) A composition formed as a pencil, and used for drawing upon lithographic stones. It is of a soapy nature, consisting of soap, wax, resins, and lamp-black, melted, and sometimes burned, together. Craze—mill. A grinding-mill for tin ore. Crazing. The cracking of the glaze upon articles of pottery or porcelain. Cream—freez′er. A domestic machine in which cream is stirred in a vessel plung
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
perhaps, perfected. Vagabonds on the fringe of civilization emulate the rites of their ancestors, and naturally recur to the habit of tattooing; hence ships, hearts, truelovers' knots, and mottoes pricked into the arms and breasts; and hence means of identification equal to the famous strawberry-mark on the left arm of he long-lost brother, or, equally famous now, the absence of the tattooed mark on the arm of the spurious Tichborne. Hans Holbein drew portraits in crayon in 1540. Sir Thomas Lawrence excelled in crayon-drawing during the early part of the present century. Crayous and pencils are used by painters in designing and sketching — in on canvas. The imitation of the chalk-drawing has given rise to one style of plateengraving, known as the stipple or chalk engraving. When Cortez landed in Mexico in 1520, he found the Aztecs using graphite crayons, which were probably made from the mineral found in Sonora. As has been said, the mounting of the small graphite bars i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
A device for preventing the passage of mephitic air and gases from the receiving openings of drains. See air-trap; stench-trap. Stint. （Mining.) A given quantity of work to be performed. Stip′ple. Another name for chalk engraving; so called because it consists of dots, and resembles chalk-drawings made upon rough paper. Dots are made instead of lines, and these are closer, deeper, and larger, in accordance with the depth of color desired. The chalk-drawings of Sir Thomas Lawrence were much admired, and the style became fashionable. This mode of engraving originated with Jacob Bylaert, of London, in 1769, and was practiced in France during the early part of last century, but did not arrive at the greatest excellence until early in the present century. It does not fall within the scope of this work to enumerate the masters in this style of the art of engraving, but the softness and beauty of its finish in representing flesh and statuary are very admirable. Ba
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
Globe. To Mrs. Judge Howe, Cambridge. ATHENAeUM Club, The Athenaeum Club (Pall Mall) was founded in 1824, by Sir Humphry Davy, Professor Faraday, Sir Francis Chantrey, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Henry Halford, Thomas Moore, Richard Heber, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and John Wilson Croker. Among its earliest members was Samuel Rogers; and among those who frequented it most was Theodore Hook. Nov. 22, 1838. my dear Mrs. Howe, Ante, Vol. I. pp. 164-16.—I should be cold, indeed, did I not cordiallyssion from the great bard,—the crowd supposing he was actively taking minutes of the argument, while he was inditing something pleasant for me, to which I never failed to reply. His present wife when young was eminently beautiful, so that Sir Thomas Lawrence used her portrait in some imaginary pieces. He has several children, one of whom—his eldest son—graduated at the University with distinguished honor, and has recently been called to the bar: I think him a young man full of promise. Vaug
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 17: resignation of Professorship—to death of Mrs. Longfellow (search)
is eyes by candle-light. But friends and guests and children and college lectures had more and more filled up his time, so that he had no strength for poetry, and the last two years had been very unproductive. There was, moreover, all the excitement of his friend Sumner's career, and of the fugitive slave cases in Boston, and it is no wonder that he writes in his diary, with his usual guarded moderation, I am not, however, very sure as to the result. Meanwhile he sat for his portrait by Lawrence, and the subject of the fugitive slave cases brought to the poet's face, as the artist testified, a look of animation and indignation which he was glad to catch and retain. On Commencement Day, July 19, 1854, he wore his academical robes for the last time, and writes of that event, The whole crowded church looked ghostly and unreal as a thing in which I had no part. He had already been engaged upon his version of Dante, having taken it up on February 1, 1853, Life, II. 248. after ten yea
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
G. P. R., 237. Janin, Jules, 161. Jefferson, Thomas, 6. Jewett, Sarah O., 198. Johnson, Eastman, 272. Jones, J. A., 23. Jones, Sir, William, 43; his Letters, 42. Joubert, J., his Pensees, quoted, 235. Keats, John, 280. Kemble, Mrs., 200. Kent, Duke of, 118. Khayyam, Omar, 282. Kiel, 108. Kingsley, Rev., Charles, 237. Knickerbocker, the, 140. Korner, Charles Theodore, 64. Kossuth, Louis, 173. Lafayette, Marquis de, 52. Lamartine, Alphonse M. L. de, 161. Lawrence, Sir, Thomas, 207. Lawton, William C., 234, 266; his The New England Poets, cited, 234 note, 265 note. Lenau, Nicholas, 161. Leopold, King of the Belgiums, 195. Lincoln, Abraham, 6. Liston, Sir, Robert, 93. Liszt, Abbe, 223. Liverpool, Eng., 219. Locke, John, 55. Loire, the river, 49. London, 2, 8, 87, 88, 91, 92, 103,105, 106, 170, 209, 210, 221, 223, 241, 245, 278. Longfellow, Alexander W., 83, 129. Longfellow, Alice M., 117 note, 209. Longfellow, Fanny, 201. Longfellow,