A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists by Robert Ridgway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Terminology.

Color.

Colors.

Color in nature.

Ornithology--Terminology.

Ornithology.

Watercolor painting--Technique.

Watercolor painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p., xvii leaves of plates) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 1886, c1885 (Cambridge [Mass.] : University Press, J. Wilson and Son)

Contents:

pt. 1. Nomenclature of colors: Preface. Principles of color and general remarks. Colors required by the zoölogical or botanical artist. Comparative vocabulary of colors. Bibliography

Pt. 2. Ornithologists' compendium: Glossary of technical terms used in descriptive ornithology. Table for converting millimetres into English inches and decimals. Table for converting English inches and decimals into millimetres.

Notes:

Most plates with description on facing versos of guardsheets.

Color charts executed in stencilled watercolor, using pigments specified in the descriptions. Cf. Ridgway's succeeding work, Color standards and nomenclature (1912), p. 13: "[O]wing the method of reproducing the originals (hand stenciling)--there is considerable variation in different copies of the book, one or more reprints, necessitating new mixtures of pigments, adding to this lack of uniformity."

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [57]-58).

OCLC:

812608542