Color - Early works to 1800
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The painter's companion or a treatise on colours. Shewing how to make the several sorts from their proper ingredients; together with the best method of colouring maps, prints, views, &c. The whole being practical improvements on the experiments of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Very useful for Gentlemen and Ladies that amuse themselves with painting in Water Colours, as well as Designers, Limners, &c.
Hoofnail, JohnDate: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- E-books
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Experiments and observations on light and colours To which is prefixed, the analogy between heat and motion.
Elliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- E-books
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Sir Isaac Newton's philosophy explain'd for the use of the ladies . In Six Dialogues on Light and Colours. From the Italian of Sig. Algarotti. Volume I.
Algarotti, Francesco, 1712-1764.Date: M,DCC,XXXIX. [1739]- E-books
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The lady's philosophy or Sir Isaac Newton's theory of light and colours, and his principle of attraction, made familiar to the ladies in several entertainments. A new edition. Translated from the original Italian of Signor Algarotti.
Algarotti, Francesco, 1712-1764.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- E-books
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A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on design, with remarks on their nature and uses Including the method of drawing in chalk, crayons, &c. of painting in water colors, crayons, &c. of engraving in strokes, chalks, mezzotinto, aquatinta, &c. of modelling, and of sculpture, &c. &c.
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823.Date: 1797?]