‘Increase of colour'
Date
1810
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
40467
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 237mm
width (print): 190mm
width (print): 190mm
Subject
Description
Optical diagram showing light shone through a prism and the resulting spectral patterns. Representing Goethe’s experiments on the ‘conditions of the increase of colour’ where the increased displacement of the object by the angle of the prism and the distance of the surface that the light is refracted on to, changes the resulting colours.
Inscribed ‘VI'
Plate 6 to Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of colours) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Tubingen, 1810).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist and scientist.
Inscribed ‘VI'
Plate 6 to Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of colours) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Tubingen, 1810).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist and scientist.