Printing colour 1700 - 1830 : histories, techniques, functions, and receptions / edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, 1951- Editor, Contributor.

Savage, Elizabeth (Lauren Elizabeth), Editor, Contributor.

Stijnman, Ad, Contributor.

Turner, Simon (Simon James), Contributor.

Seifert, Christian Tico, Contributor.

Berger, Sidney E., Contributor.

Cloonan, Michèle Valerie, 1955- Contributor.

Banham, Rob, Contributor.

British Academy, Issuing body.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 263.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 263.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color printing--History.

Color printing.

Color printing--Technique.

Color prints--History.

Color prints.

Physical Description:

xii, 439 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Printing color 1700-1830

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2025

Summary:

"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 23 leading experts expand the corpus beyond rare fine art impressions to include many millions of colour-printed images and objects. 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage

Part I: Materials and Techniques Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe

Tools, Machines, and Presswork for Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe / Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage

Colour Printing Inks and Colour Inking in 18th-Century Europe / Elizabeth Savage

Part II Relief Techniques: Letterpress, and Colour Woodcut

Colour Letterpress in Europe in the Long 18th Century / Ad Stijnman

Elisha Kirkall and his Proposals for Printing in Chiaroscuro, Natural Colours and Tints, 1720-1740 / Simon Turner

Printing Chiaroscuro and Colour Woodcuts in Paris, Venice, and London c.1725-70 / Tico Seifert

Bringing Colour to Books and Objects with Decorated Paper in the Long 18th Century / Sid Berger and Michèle Cloonan

Colour for Commerce: Letterpress-Printed Ephemera in Britain, 1700-1830 / Rob Banham

Part III Mezzotint and Trichromatic Printing

The Politics of Process Mezzotint: Jacob Christoff Le Blon's Reputation, 1700-89 / Elizabeth Savage

From Colour Theory to Colour Practice: Printmakers in Pursuit of the Ideal Pigments in 18th-Century Europe / Dionysia Christoforou, Manon van der Mullen and Victor Gonzalez

Colouring the Body: Printed Colour in Medical Treatises during the Long Eighteenth Century / Julia Nurse

Colour Printing in Late 18th-Century Italy: Édouard and Louis Dagoty, 1770-1800, / Alice Nicoliello

Part IV Chalk, Pastel and Watercolour Manner, and Aquatint

Printed Paintings and Engraved Drawings: Technical Innovations in Colour Printing in 18th-Century France / Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Coloured Prints in Imitation of Old Master Drawings in 18th-Century Italy: Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, Benigno Bossi, Francesco Rosaspina and their Contemporaries / Benedetta Spadaccini

François-Philippe Charpentier and the Development of Aquatint in France in the 1760s / Rena Hoisington

A Voyage pittoresque in Norway through Colour Prints, 1789-c.1815 / Chiara Palandri

The Market for Colour Prints in Paris at the End of the 18th Century / Corinne Le Bitouzé

Multiple-Plate Colour Prints and the Problems of Variant Impressions, Missing Plates, and Disappearing Inks / Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Part V Stipple and a la Poupée

English Colour-Printed Stipple Engravings, 1774-1800 / David Alexander

Between Painting and Graphic Arts: Colour Printmaking in Russia, 1750s-1800s / Zalina Tetermazova

Anne Allen, Jean Pillement, and the Development of à la poupée Printing in France / Geert-Jan Janse

The Contribution of à la poupée-inked Colour Printing to Natural History Illustration in France, 1800-1870 / Karen Cook

Part VI Consumer Goods and Expanding Markets for Colour Printing

Anatomy to Embroidery: Intaglio Colour-Printed Illustrations in European Books and Periodicals, 1700-1850 / Ad Stijnman

Early Dye-Patterned Colour on Calico in Europe, 1600-1840 / Susan Greene

Printed Wallpaper in England in the Long Eighteenth Century / Phillippa Mapes

Colour Printing on English Ceramics, 1751-70 / Patricia Ferguson

Part VII Technical Experimentation and Industrialisation

William Blake's Colour Printing: Methods & Materials / Michael Phillips

Innovation and Tradition in Early 19th-Century Colour Printing / Michael Twyman

The Beginnings of Commercial Colour Printing in Europe, 1835-1840 / Michael Twyman

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 404 - 421) and index.

ISBN:

9780197267530

019726753X

OCLC:

1451509138