Coloritto, or, The harmony of colouring in painting : 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 J.C. le Blon.
Alternate Title(s):
Coloritto
Published / Created:
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1725]
Physical Description:
[4], vii, [2], 6-27, [1], 7, [1] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Le Blon's invention was based on Newton's theory of light, which held that a few ... primary colors in various combinations composed all the visible colors, and together formed pure white light. Le Blon's process consisted of printing three mezzotint plates, each in one of the primary colors of red, blue, and yellow, on the same sheet of paper, thereby reproducing all the compound colors visible in an original picture."--Friedman.
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
Painting -- Technique. | Color in art.
Form/Genre:
Mezzotints -- Color -- ca. 1722.
Contributors:
Harris, Moses, 1730–approximately 1788. Exposition of English insects. | W. and J. Innys, bookseller.