单词 | megilp |
释义 | megilpn. Painting. Now chiefly historical. 1. A mixture, usually of linseed oil with mastic varnish or turpentine, used as a vehicle for oil colours.Popular in the 18th and 19th cent. for the facile and versatile manipulative qualities it gives to oil colours, but later discredited as a major cause of embrittlement, cracking, and yellowing of oil paintings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints > preparation of colours > mixing fluids, etc. vehicle1758 megilp1768 siccative1825 medium1845 egg1854 gumption1854 extender1920 binder1922 1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. x. 116 The magilp was a nostrum known only to the ancients; but our modern artists..have labour'd..to find out this valuable mystery, and as they say with some degree of success... The magilp produces that warmth and serenity which characterizes the peculiar merit of Claude Lorraine. 1803 Edinb. Rev. July 458 By the pulp, he meant to express some of the drying oils, or perhaps macgellup. a1821 J. Farington in T. Wright Life Richard Wilson (1824) 20 A magylph or majellup of linseed-oil and mastic varnish..was his [sc. Richard Wilson's] usual vehicle. 1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art at Gumption (note) In the different treatises on painting and in the colourmen's catalogues we find it thus variously named... Magelp, magelph, magilp, magylp, magylph, megilp, megelp, megylp, megylph, macgelp, macgelph, macgilp, macgilph, macgylph, macgulp, magulp, megulph, mygelp, mygelph, mygilp, mygilph, mygulp, mygulph. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 205 They [sc. various vehicles] are called ‘Meguilps’ from their inventor. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. III. 146/2 His portraits were celebrated for peculiar brilliancy, in consequence of the especial attention he devoted to the preparation of magilp. 1892 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 222/2 With this [paint] I just tinge some megilp..just enough to discolor my megilp a little; this serves to lower the tone of my picture a mere shade and give harmony to the colors. 1953 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 22 78 It is possible to mark upwards of 25,000 tsetse-flies... The marks..are made from artist's oil paints mixed with a little megilp, and compounded from the colours sold as deep ultramarine, vermilion, chrome-yellow mid, and flake white. 1995 Victorian Stud. (Electronic ed.) 38 This book brings together not only conservation viewpoints on some of the objects (discussed in an essay largely on the deleterious effect of asphaltum and megilp..), but also [etc.]. ΚΠ 1827 N. Whittock Decorative Painters' & Glaziers' Guide i. ii. 21 The graining colour..is..a compound of various ingredients, mixed together to the consistence of thick treacle: this is called megilp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). megilpv. Painting. rare. transitive. To give to (oil colours) the quality which megilp imparts; to apply megilp to. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [verb (transitive)] > varnish with meglip megilp1873 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 420/1 If it [sc. water] is well mixed with the oil colour, it megilps it sufficiently to hold the combing. 1875 E. A. Davidson House-painting 110 The work..must be varnished or ‘megilped’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1768v.1873 |
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