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.

British Academy

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 263.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color printing--History--18th century.

Color printing.

Color printing--History--19th century.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Printing color 1700-1830

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

"This book offers the first handbook of early modern colour printmaking in Europe in the late hand-press period, 1700–1830. It begins with the invention of full-colour printing around 1700, follows the transformations and mechanisation of printing processes following the Industrial Revolution, and concludes with the spread of chromolithography around 1830. For the first time, it presents new information about influential fine art prints and books alongside far more common colour-printed material: letterpress, book illustrations, and the products of cognate trades and industries, including vibrant textiles, wallpapers, and transfer-printed porcelain and enamels. It establishes that the history of colour printing diverges significantly from the mainstream history of printing, mainly in black, and creates an interdisciplinary paradigm for the history of graphic art that focuses on materiality and production rather than artistic style. Also, rather than considering only the London-Paris axis, or even western Europe, it reveals significant episodes and centres of colour printing in, for example, provincial towns, Scandinavia, and Russia, and markets for this work in areas then under colonial control, including India. The twenty-eight contributions represent the state of research in this still-emerging field. They offer art historical, bibliographical, technical, and scientific contexts for understanding the vast quantity of individual colour print projects—and colour-printed objects—were produced, sold, and used, including the colour inks themselves and the printing processes that enabled their production. Taken together, they demonstrate that colour prints were not rare outliers of fine art and elite scientific imagery, but essential components of many book, print and visual cultures that were in or connected to Europe in the long 18th century"-- Oxford Academic.

From the invention of four-colour separation printing c. 1710 to the introduction of chromolithography c. 1830, 'Printing Colour 1700-1830' offers a survey of eighteenth-century colour printmaking in and beyond western Europe, dynamically expanding print history to include such diverse consumer goods as clothing, wallpapers, and pottery.

Contents:

Tools, machines, and techniques for colour printing in 18th-century Europe / Elizabeth Savage, Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Colour printing inks and colour inking in 18th-century Europe / Elizabeth Savage

Colour letterpress in Europe in the long 18th century : A first survey / Ad Stijnman

Elisha Kirkall and his proposals for printing in chiaroscuro, natural colours, and tints, 1720-40 / Simon J. Turner

John Baptist Jackson : Printing chiaroscuro and colour woodcuts in Paris, Venice, and London / Christian Tico Seifert

Bringing colour to books and objects with decorated paper in the long 18th century / Sidney E. Berger and Michèle V. Cloonan

Colour for commerce : Letterpress-printed ephemera in Britain, 1700-1830 / Rob Banham

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 and others

Colouring the body : Printed colour in medical treatises during the long 18th century / Julia Nurse

Colour printing in late 18th-century Italy : Édouard and Louis Dagoty, 1770-1800 / Alice Nicoliello

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 M. 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 disappearing inks, missing plates, and variant impressions / Margaret Morgan Grasselli

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 inking to natural history illustration in France, 1800-70 / Karen Severud Cook

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 W. Greene

Printed wallpaper in England in the long 18th century / Phillippa Mapes

Colour printing on English ceramics, 1751-70 / Patricia F. Ferguson

William Blake’s colour printing : Methods and materials / Michael Phillips

Innovation and tradition in early 19th-century European colour printing / Michael Twyman

The beginnings of commercial colour printing in Europe, 1835-40 / Michael Twyman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed December 2, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Printing colour 1700-1830.

ISBN:

9780198939825

0198939825

9781805961086

180596108X

9780198939818

0198939817

OCLC:

1493605184

Publisher Number:

CIPO000234262

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license