Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions, by 26 leading experts, expand the corpus far beyond the beautiful, already well-studied images produced in European hubs like London and Paris. The chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualise the rise in colour-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements. This landmark volume launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields.
IntroductionMargaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage:
Part I: Materials and Techniques Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage: Tools, Machines, and Presswork for Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe
Elizabeth Savage: Colour Printing Inks and Colour Inking in 18th-Century Europe
Part II Relief Techniques: Letterpress, and Colour Woodcut
Ad Stijnman: Colour Letterpress in Europe in the Long 18th Century
Simon Turner: Elisha Kirkall and his Proposals for Printing in Chiaroscuro, Natural Colours and Tints, 1720-1740
Tico Seifert: Printing Chiaroscuro and Colour Woodcuts in Paris, Venice, and London c.1725-70
Sid Berger, Michèle Cloonan: Bringing Colour to Books and Objects with Decorated Paper in the Long 18th Century
Rob Banham: Colour for Commerce: Letterpress-Printed Ephemera in Britain, 1700-1830
Part III Mezzotint and Trichromatic Printing
Elizabeth Savage: The Politics of Process Mezzotint: Jacob Christoff Le Blon's Reputation, 1700-89
Dionysia Christoforou, Manon van der Mullen, Victor Gonzalez: From Colour Theory to Colour Practice: Printmakers in Pursuit of the Ideal Pigments in 18th-Century Europe
Julia Nurse: Colouring the Body: Printed Colour in Medical Treatises during the Long Eighteenth Century
Alice Nicoliello: Colour Printing in Late 18th-Century Italy: Édouard and Louis Dagoty, 1770-1800
Part IV Chalk, Pastel and Watercolour Manner, and Aquatint
Margaret Morgan Grasselli: Printed Paintings and Engraved Drawings: Technical Innovations in Colour Printing in 18th-Century France
Benedetta Spadaccini: Coloured Prints in Imitation of Old Master Drawings in 18th-Century Italy: Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, Benigno Bossi, Francesco Rosaspina and their Contemporaries
Rena Hoisington: François-Philippe Charpentier and the Development of Aquatint in France in the 1760s
Chiara Palandri: A Voyage pittoresque in Norway through Colour Prints, 1789-c.1815
Corinne Le Bitouzé: The Market for Colour Prints in Paris at the End of the 18th Century
Margaret Morgan Grasselli: Multiple-Plate Colour Prints and the Problems of Variant Impressions, Missing Plates, and Disappearing Inks
Part V Stipple and a la Poupée
David Alexander: English Colour-Printed Stipple Engravings, 1774-1800
Zalina Tetermazova: Between Painting and Graphic Arts: Colour Printmaking in Russia, 1750s-1800s
Geert-Jan Janse: Anne Allen, Jean Pillement, and the Development of à la poupée Printing in France
Karen Cook: The Contribution of à la poupée-inked Colour Printing to Natural History Illustration in France, 1800-1870
Part VI Consumer Goods and Expanding Markets for Colour Printing
Ad Stijnman: Anatomy to Embroidery: Intaglio Colour-Printed Illustrations in European Books and Periodicals, 1700-1850
Susan Greene: Early Dye-Patterned Colour on Calico in Europe, 1600-1840
Phillippa Mapes: Printed Wallpaper in England in the Long Eighteenth Century
Patricia Ferguson: Colour Printing on English Ceramics, 1751-70
Part VII Technical Experimentation and Industrialisation
Michael Phillips: William Blake's Colour Printing: Methods & Materials
Michael Twyman: Innovation and Tradition in Early 19th-Century Colour Printing
Michael Twyman: The Beginnings of Commercial Colour Printing in Europe, 1835-1840
Height:185
Width:215
Spine:30
Weight:1783.00