Re: vernis soehnee
Hi Chris !
I'll check next week whether one may still buy le
Vernis Soehnée in stores and I'll make you know.
By the way, I had a look at the scanned book you
mentioned and there are just a few explanations about the Soehnée process which
mainly consists in a way of helping the complete dissolution of resin to make
the varnish.
But I was surprised to find no more info about le
"Vernis Soehnée" and, following the URL link that you gave in
your post, I noticed that you searched for "vernis soehnee" instead
of "vernis Soehnée".
And there you get some interesting results; I only
mention 2 url but they are plenty (including Demachy's book, of course)
:
- the description of the process by Soehmée
(1836) at :
http://books.google.com/books?id=uS0GAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA2-PA53&dq=vernis+Soehn%C3%A9e&hl=fr#PRA2-PA56,M1
page 54 and following
-an article in the Bulletin de la Société française
de Photographie (1860) about the use of vernis Soehmée in the chapter
devoted to : PROCÉDÉ Pour transporter sur papier, sans les
retourner, les clichés faits sur verre au collodion ; = process for
transfering to paper, without turning them , collodion on glass pictures.
at
chapter begins on page 119
Chris, I had a special thought for you, when
I noticed in the very long list of items necessary to apply the process the
presence of
Un flacon de gomme arabique dissoute, bien
blanche, pure et d'une consistance sirupeuse.
Un petit verre pour y mettre la gomme nécessaire à l'opération ' ' Un petit blaireau très-doux pour étendre la gomme I hope by this indication contribute to feed your
passion for gum, to excite your desire for this white, pure and syrupeous
matter...
HeHeHe will say Mark ! ;-)
Hope this helps,
Cheers from France
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: "Alt, List" <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: vernis soehnee > Charles-Frederic Soehnee, none other than the famous maker of vernis soehnee > which the article says is still used. Does anyone from France see it in > stores today? Apparently he made his fortune on the varnish! I wonder if > anyone has done a chem analysis of it? > http://www.gallimard.fr/catalog/html/actu/index/index_soehnee.html > > > Also a French book mentioning it on p. 350 that you can download...it is an > 1844 volume scanned by Google, out of the Harvard Library. You can download > it to your desktop and check out the couple pages on Soehnee which are pp. > 350-1 in the book but I think, say, 367 in the PDF. Traite de chimee > appliquee aux arts. > > http://books.google.com/books?id=3b0EAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA351&lpg=RA1-PA351&dq=vernis+soehnee&source=web&ots=mDPJE0Qej9&sig=muvfpaET02QCvJSLbNVnldtoa6A#PPP1,M1 > > Enjoy your read (in French). > Chris > > > > Christina Z. Anderson > Assistant Professor > Photo Option Coordinator > Montana State University > CZAphotography.com > _______________ > > > >
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