Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Roberson & Company
Title:
Roberson & Company, manufacturers of oil and water colors, materials for drawing and painting : no. 99 Long Acre, London, W.C.
Alternate Title(s):
Materials for drawing and painting
Published / Created:
[London] : [Roberson & Company], [not before 1862]
Physical Description:
1 broadside : ill. ; 44 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:11192195
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Prize medal awarded to Roberson & Company for 'drawing materials,' International Exhibition 1851 & 1862."
Contents:
Water colours, in cakes. Moist water colours, in China pans and tubes -- Water colours, in boxes -- Chinese and constant white -- Science and art department -- Boxes of colours & materials for illuminating -- Studio cabinets -- Roberson's medium for oil painting -- Sketching boxes -- Lake Price's moist water-color box -- Drawing papers -- Cartoon Paper, &c. -- Chalks and crayons -- Combination pocket sketch book and palette -- Roberson's prepared lead pencils -- Polished pencils -- Brushes and pencils -- Academy boards, and prepared paper, for sketching in oil -- Easels -- French lay figures -- Varnishes, oils, &c. -- Etching & copperplate printing materials.
Subject Terms:
Roberson & Company. | Artists' materials -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Artists' materials industry -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Artists' tools -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Drawing materials -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Paper -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Pigments -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Watercolor painting -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:
Advertisements. | Broadsides. | Wood engravings -- 1862.