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Image number: RS.10634
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Colour spot chart
Date
1868
After
William Benson (1819 - 1903, British) , Architect
Object type
Library reference
27466
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 277mm
width (painting): 212mm
width (painting): 212mm
Subject
Description
Chart of colours based upon Benson’s ‘cube of colours’: sections at right angles with the tertiary axis of white.
Illustration for the monograph Principles of the science of colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in the decorative arts by William Benson (Chapman & Hall, London, 1868), facing p.31.
According to Benson, the cube of colours was: “A scheme by which colours may be arranged according to their natural affinity, and their relationship exhibited by their place in a complete system, will be a useful aid in forming and retaining a correct idea of the whole assemblage of colours, and in devising new and beautiful arrangements.”
William Benson of 147 Albany Street, Regent’s Park, London, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. His book on colour carries a dedication to George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) Secretary of the Royal Society and later President.
Illustration for the monograph Principles of the science of colour concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in the decorative arts by William Benson (Chapman & Hall, London, 1868), facing p.31.
According to Benson, the cube of colours was: “A scheme by which colours may be arranged according to their natural affinity, and their relationship exhibited by their place in a complete system, will be a useful aid in forming and retaining a correct idea of the whole assemblage of colours, and in devising new and beautiful arrangements.”
William Benson of 147 Albany Street, Regent’s Park, London, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. His book on colour carries a dedication to George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) Secretary of the Royal Society and later President.
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