A descriptive handbook of modern water colour pigments illustrated with seventy-two colour washes skilfully gradated by hand on Whatman's drawing paper : with an introductory essay on the recent water-colour controversy.
A trade handbook on watercolour pigments written by John Scott Taylor and published by Winsor and Newton in London in 1887, addressed to painters and buyers of artists' materials during the period's debate over pigment permanence. The plates are grids of hand-graded colour washes on Whatman paper, each bar captioned with its pigment name in small capitals, alongside wood-engraved vignettes of paint boxes and brushes; useful for period palette references, swatch-grid layouts, and specimen labelling.
