k Green and Blue. With a few colors, however, all the
rest may be made thus: Orange, by Yellow and Red; Purple, with Blue
and Red; Green, Blue and Yellow; Brown, with Umber, Carmine and Lamp
Black; Scarlet, Carmine and Light Red. While it is true that a little
color may relieve the dark metallic look of some Daguerreotypes, it
must not be concealed that the covering of the fine delicate outline
and exquisite gradations of tone of a good picture with such a coating,
is barbarous and unartistic.

"The prevaling taste is, however, decidedly for colored proofs, and the
following directions will assist the amateur in ministering to this
perverted taste, should he be so inclined. The coloring should
commence with the face, and the flesh tint must be stippled on (not
rubbed) with a small camel's-hair brush, beginning from the centre of
the cheek, taking great care not to go over the outline of the face,
and also not to have too much color in the brush; the eyes and eyebrows
must not be touched with color. After the flesh color is applied, take
a piece of very soft cotton and pass it very gently backwards and
forwards over the face, so as to soften down the color, and then apply
the carmine to give the required tint. For men, the darker tints
should predominate, and for women the warmer. Very light hair may be
improved by a slight tint of brown, or yellow and brown, according to
the color. In coloring the drapery, the same care must be used. No
rules can be laid down for all the different colors required, and the
amateur had better obtain the assistance or advice of some one
accustomed to the use of colors. A little white with a dash of blue or
a little silver, will improve white linen, lace, etc. The jewelry may
be touched with gold or silver from the shells, moistened with
distilled water, and laid on with a fine-pointed sable-hair brush.

"Brilliants may be represented by picking the plate with the point of a
pin or knife."

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER II.

Coloring Back Grounds--Transparent ditto--Gilding Dissolvent Solution
for removing Specks--Solarized Impression--To Purify Water--Cleaning
Mercury--Adhesive Paper--Black Stain for Apparatus--Sealing Wax for
Bottles--Rouge--Rotten Stone--Potassa Solution--Hyposulphite
Solution--Substitute for do.--Gilding Solution--Solution for increasing
the Brilliancy of the Daguerreotype--Bleaching Solution;--Cold
Gilding--Neutralizing Agents--Buff Dryer--Keeping Bu