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Description: | On blade: "L.P"; green paint marks CRE UNKNOWN; This is a trowel-shaped palette knife with steel blade. It is part of the collection of James McNeill Whistler's artist's materials held by the Hunterian Art Gallery. Palette knives came in various materials: steel, horn or ivory. In the nineteenth century, sources noted that a steel palette knife was not compatible with certain pigments, for example Naples Yellow. The palette knife was mainly used as an implement for mixing paint and rarely for applying paint to the canvas. (See Leslie Carlyle 2001 'The Artist's Assistant: Oil Painting Instruction Manuals and Handbooks in Britain 1800-1900' pp 224-225)
Birnie Philip Bequest, 1958. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PALETTE KNIFE : OIL : MATERIALS : TECHNIQUE : EQUIPMENT : KNIFE : PALETTE : WHISTLER CENTENARY : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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