Artists' pigments c.1600-1835
Subtitle: a study in English documentary sources
By: R.D. Harley.
Contributors: State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781873132913
Subjects: Pigments -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.; Pigments -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.; Pigments -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Description: A detailed and comprehensive examination of the primary English documentary sources of the late 16th century to the early 19th century relating to artists' colors.
Notes: Previous ed.: London : Butterworth Scientific, 1982.

Art Conservation Department Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literary sources: manuscripts and printer books, sixteenth century to mid-seventeenth century; title: Literary sources: printer books 1650-1835; title: Sources for the history of the colour trade; title: Inorganic blues; title: Organic blues; title: Greens; title: Inorganic yellows; title: Organic yellows; title: Inorganic reds and purples; title: Organic reds; title: Browns, blacks, greys; title: Whites; title: Science and art.