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
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.
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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