Coloritto, or, The harmony of colouring in painting
Subtitle: reduced to mechanical practice, under early precepts, and infallible rules : together with some colour'd figures, in order to render the said precepts and rules intelligible, not only to painters, but even to all lovers of painting
By: by J.C. le Blon.
Contributors: Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1725
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Color in art.; Painting -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Coloritto; Harmony of colouring in painting; Harmonie du coloris dans la peinture.
Notes: "Translated from the French, by James Anderson, M.A."--R. Watt, Bibliotheca  Britannica, Edinburgh, 1824.

With French text and added title page: L'harmonie du coloris dans la peinture ...

Copies were sold (by W. and J. Innys or by the author) with or without an Appendix containing four additional plates (see The monthly catalogue, v. 2, 1725, p. 51). A facsimilie of the Appendix text (seven pages) is bound with this copy.

The uncolored first plate wanting.

Ex libris Howard C. Levis.

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