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Chromatography, or, A treatise on colours and pigments : and of their powers in painting, &c.

Field, George, 1777?-1854 · 1835 · London : C. Tilt · 8 pictures

George Field's 1835 London treatise on colours and pigments, issued by C. Tilt for painters, colourmen and students of optics. Engraved plates show wedge-shaped optical instruments in fine-line shading, a prism ray diagram labelled with colour names, and geometric colour-mixture schemes — sources for instrument silhouettes, hatched tonal surfaces and annotated light-path drawings.

Color · Pigments · Painting

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