[HN Gopher] A Guide to Color from 1692 ___________________________________________________________________ A Guide to Color from 1692 Author : throw0101a Score : 57 points Date : 2021-04-09 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.openculture.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.openculture.com) | dang wrote: | If curious, there was at least one previous submission about | this: | | _A colourful book (1692)_ - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702850 - May 2014 (8 | comments) | gengelbro wrote: | Recently read: "Secret Lives Of Colour" by Kassia St Clair which | was very interesting from a historical perspective. I especially | enjoyed the descriptions of the old chemical engineering (vats of | vinegar, urine, lead, etc). | leoc wrote: | It seems this book's colours were hand-painted, but I might as | well mention two famous mid-C19 examples of colour printing, when | (IIRC; I am not an expert) high-quality colour printing was still | very expensive and rare: | | * the "Sobieski Stewarts'" dodgy _Vestiarium Scoticum_ : | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarium_Scoticum | | > It was from Eilean Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last | published their famous manuscript, _Vestiarium Scoticum_ . It | appeared in a sumptuous edition limited to fifty copies. The | series of coloured illustrations of tartans was the first ever to | be published and was a triumph over technical difficulties. These | illustrations were executed by a new process of 'machine | printing' and, in the words of a scholar writing fifty years | later, 'for beauty of execution and exactness of detail have not | been excelled by any method of colour-printing subsequently | invented'. | | > Hugh Trevor-Roper, "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland | Tradition of Scotland" | | * Oliver Byrne's colour edition of the first six books of Euclid | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#B... | | And why not throw in _Shadows From the Walls of Death_ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Deat... | with its samples of intensely green arsenical wallpaper? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-09 23:00 UTC)