As a siccative, it might be advantageously employed with ivory black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Oils made siccative by means of litharge are therefore liable to be damaged by foul gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

It is an admirable dryer, and has much the same effect as litharge in rendering oils siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

It washes and works capitally in water, and dries quickly in oil, in which it is employed as a siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

These agents might, with advantage, be more generally used in the place of litharge for rendering oils siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Sulphate of zinc, as a siccative, is less powerful than acetate of lead, but is far preferable in a chemical sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Hence, although the employment of lead as a siccative is not desirable, its effects are not so deleterious as might be imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

For the purpose of causing it to be more siccative, the oil was boiled with a large quantity of litharge, but by this method the white was liable to tarnish on meeting with foul air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Questi dunque bolliti con altre sue misture gli fecero la vernice ch 'egli, e tutti pittori del mondo aveano lungamente desiderata "--" found that linseed and nut oil were the most siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference

Like litharge, it may be employed in the preparation of drying oils, and, being a better drier than white lead, may be substituted for it in mixing with pigments which need a siccative, as the bituminous earths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

The direct rays of the sun are powerfully active in rendering oils and colours siccative, and were probably resorted to before dryers were -- not always wisely -- added to oils, particularly in the warm climate of Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

These two dryers should not be employed together, since they counteract and decompose each other, forming two new substances -- acetate of zinc, which is a bad siccative, and sulphate of lead, which is insoluble and opaque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

In his researches, he discovered the use of linseed and nut oil, which he found most siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)] Reference

Olive or good mineral oil will do, the latter preferably as it gradually evaporates; whereas vegetable oils acquire a siccative property from contact with the minute particles of steel; the stone then gets clogged and unworkable till thoroughly cleansed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference

The modes of bleaching and thickening oil in the sun, as well as the siccative power of metallic oxides, were known to the classical writers, and evidence exists of the careful study of Galen, Dioscorides, and others by the painters of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: the loss (recorded by Vasari) of Antonio Veneziano to the arts, "per che studio in Dioscoride le cose dell'erbe," is a remarkable instance of its less fortunate results.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

Acetate of lead, as a siccative, 51.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

In oil it dries by acting as a siccative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

Manganese as a siccative, 51, 77, 406.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference