ON THE ART OF PAINTING ON GLASS, OR GLASS-STAINING: COMPRISING DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING THE PIGMENTS AND FLUXES, FOR LAYING THEM UPON THE GLASS, AND FOR FIRING OR BURNING IN THE COLOURS. FROM THE GERMAN OF DR. M. A. GESSERT, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF GLASS-PAINTING.' TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX ON THE ART OF ENAMELLING, &c. London: JOHN WEALE, ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, 59, HIGH HOLBORN. M.DCCC.LI. 170. m. 43. CONTENTS. On the Devices employed for the more easily obtaining a RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON THE ART OF PAINTING ON GLASS, OR GLASS-STAINING. INTRODUCTION. 1. THE beautiful art of glass-painting is not only restored, in our day, to the perfect fulness of its ancient splendour, but also has acquired, through the giant strides of the science of chemistry, and the great progress latterly made in the arts of design, an amount of technical and æsthetical power, far exceeding whatever could formerly be called to its aid. Notwithstanding this advantage, however, the art has not yet reached that wide state of diffusion which, from the exquisite effects it is capable of producing, it deserves, and which it attained in the olden time, even with its then more limited capabilities. 2. This circumscribed use of glass-painting can scarcely be accounted for by a comparison of the religious circumstances of our age with those of the past, or on the supposition that this art, confining itself exclusively to exhibition in sacred edifices, had therefore been lost among the A |