Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11870

    Colour palette

    Date
    1749
    Creator
    Jacques Fabien Gautier-Dagoty (1710 - 1781, French) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts CLXII/1
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 164mm
    width (print): 230mm
    Subject
    Description
    Artist’s palette with colours, arranged according to the author’s colour theory. Each pigment is lettered to correspond with a key in the supporting text.

    Frontispiece plate from the monograph Lettres concerning le nouvel art de graver et d’imprimer les tableaux, by J.F. Gautier-d’Agoty (J.Bullot, Paris, 1749).

    Inscribed above: ‘Sisteme practique des Couleurs du Sr. Gautier’. Upper left: ‘Gautier sculp.’

    Jacques Fabien Gautier-d’Agoty (1710-1781) French painter, pastelist, and engraver, developed a four-plate colour mezzotint printing process, often used for anatomical illustration.
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