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Print illustrating a mode of fixing the hues of nature

Maker

(artist)
1724-1804

(etcher)
1700-1799

Title

Print illustrating a mode of fixing the hues of nature

Date of Production

1789

Medium

Etching and aquatint, printed on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 13.7 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7037

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, numbers relating to various areas of the diagram, printed: 305 / 353 / 4 / 120 / 19 / 105 / 29 / 152 / 9 / 12 / 116 / 18 / 33

Inscription: Recto: upper right, in plate, handwritten in pencil: 133

Inscription: Recto: lower centre mount, typed: W. GILPIN / Print to illustrate a mode of fixing the hues of nature / T.O.

Label: Verso: text cut from original book, printed: Yellow & Red. / Yellow & Blue. / Blue & Red. / Yellow, Blue & Red. (...) / 48

Label: Verso: laminated barcode, printed: BR0044701B

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