/ · The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

614

Of chalk and paper.

PAPER FOR DRAWING UPON IN BLACK BY THE AID OF YOUR SPITTLE.

Take powdered gall nuts and vitriol, powder them and spread them on paper like a varnish, then write on it with a pen wetted with spittle and it will turn as black as ink.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

613 * 615
VII * X
Google
 
Web fromoldbooks.org
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
. . .
594,
595,
596,
597,
598,
599,
600
Of painting battle pieces.
601,
602,
603
Of depicting night-scenes.
604
Of depicting a tempest.
605,
606
Of representing the deluge.
607,
608,
609
Of depicting natural phenomena.
610,
611
Of chalk and paper.
612,
613,
614,
615,
616,
617
On the preparation and use of colours.
618,
619,
620,
621,
622,
623,
624,
625,
626,
627
Of preparing the panel.
628
The preparation of oils.
629,
630,
631,
632,
633,
634
. . .