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Ink

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  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • Pandit Tudu and his wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Printing: cleaning formes (top), and the equipment used (below). Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Page 164: two images of women in their traditional costume with one writing a letter. Watercolour drawing.

    | Reference: 27534i
    • Books

    Iron gall inks: on manufacture characterisation, degradation and stabilisation / ed. by Jana Kolar en Matija Strlič.

    | Date: cop. 2006
    • Pictures
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    A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: patients taking afternoon tea, and a nurse waiting to collect a letter from a slow writer. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

    Ibels, Louise Catherine, 1891-1965. | Date: 1916 | Reference: 24124i
    • Books

    Chemistry and manufacture of writing and printing inks : a list of references in the New York public library / compiled by William B. Gamble, chief of the Division of science and technology ; introduction by H.M. Lydenberg, chief reference librarian.

    New York Public Library. | Date: 1926
    • Books

    Observations and experiments on the bad composition of modern paper ; with the description of a permanent writing ink, which cannot be discharged / By John Murray.

    Murray, John, 1786?-1851. | Date: 1824
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