18TH CENTURY COLOUR PALETTES

This primary source describes over 175 pigment names by four 18th century authors two artists colourmen and two chemists, in Engl and and in France. All their entries are included, usually in full, and the pigments are those they found in the shops, the author s often citing contemporary scholarly publications. Entries from the French treatises are published in English for the first time.Th e plates make up a collection of fashionable 18th century ladies, several of which are portraits by women painters, among them sever al self-port...[Read more]