Hello ARLIS folks.
This is a reminder about the existence of the Digital Library
for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts
and an announcement of a newly added online facsimile.

G. Smith's 1799 edition of "The Laboratory; or, School of arts:
containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and
manual operations in arts and manufactures..." is now live at:
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/DLDecArts.Laboratory

The descriptive note on the book is at:
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/TextAbout.html#Smith

And, although the how-to-do-it text is the major content of the work,
here's a sample image plate (re how shadows work)...
http://images.library.wisc.edu/DLDecArts/EFacs/Laboratory2/XL/0488.jpg

Hope you find this useful.
Best wishes,
--Linda
Linda Duychak, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison


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