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Images about Color

70 images from works
  • Plate 22, D.R. Hay, A nomenclature of colours
  • Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.
  • A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Intransition effect of migraine
  • Colour vision
  • Men vainly seeking alchemical 'white' (mercurial) water in the ground and in trees. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Plate 1, D.R. Hay, A nomenclature of colours
  • Greenacres Barn
  • Melanocyte with disrupted actin cytoskeleton
  • A crowned alchemical flask containing a young king, dressed in red, representing the culmination of the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

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    Interior with clock - inducing a migraine

    Debbie Ayles
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    Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

    | Date: 1868 | Reference: 47500i
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    Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

    | Date: 1883 | Reference: 47499i
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    Melanocyte with disrupted actin cytoskeleton

    Alistair Hume
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    Die Physiologie der Farben : für die Zwecke der Kunstgewerbe / auf Anregung der Direction des kaiserlich Oesterreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie bearbeitet von Ernst Brücke.

    Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm von, 1819-1892. | Date: 1866

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Alchemy
Light
Optics
Chemistry - History
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Red
Green
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Crowns
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