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72 items
Lectures on Coal Tar Colours and on Recent Improvements and Progress in Dyeing and Calico Printing
- Embodying Copious Notes Taken at the Last London International Exhibition and Illustrated with Numberous Patterns of Fabrics Dyed with Aniline and Other Colours
- 1860s
Frederick Crace Calvert (1819–1873) was a professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, Manchester. From 1835 to 1846 he lived in France, studying chemistry under the chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889), who…
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Barlow's Indigo Blue dye
- 1860s
Cardboard box which at one time contained two dozen, wooden dye containers sealed with paper labels. Each contained an indigo fabric dye puck.
Indigo is among the oldest dyes to be used for textile dyeing and printing.…
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Photograph of Paula Haber
- Circa 1858 – 1868
Photographic negative of Paula Haber (1844-1868), mother of the Nobel Prize-winning German chemist, Fritz Haber (1868-1934). Paula died three weeks after childbirth due to complications with her pregnancy. Her son,…
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Jasperware cameo portrait of Joseph Priestley
- After 1860 – before 1868
Cameo is oval with the profile of Joseph Priestley; profile is white and raised on a blue background with a raised dark blue border; sticker on back identifies the framer.
- Manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
- Subject Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, Cameos, Jasperware
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5 items
Italian Dyer's Notebook
- Autograph Manuscript
- Circa 1856 – circa 1866
This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866,…
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The Annual Report of the Physician and Superintendent of the Eastern Asylum, in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, for 1842
- 1843 – 1865
Volume containing several publications bound together: The Annual report of the court of directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum (1851); Twenty-fourth annual report of the President and Directors of the Western Lunatic…
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Le Louvre Achevé et la Nouvelle Rue de Rivoli
- The completed Louvre and New Rue de Rivoli
- Circa 1826 – 1865
"Le Louvre Achevé et la Nouvelle Rue de Rivoli," which translates to "The completed Louvre and New Rue de Rivoli," depicts an aerial view of Paris, seen from a hot air balloon. Philippe Benoist (French, Geneva 1813–ca.…
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Civil War envelope portraying Abraham Lincoln as a chemist
- 1861 – 1865
This envelope, produced during the American Civil War, features a patriotic Union theme with President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) portrayed as a pharmacist, chemist or alchemist stirring a receptacle titled "Pure…
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The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion
- 1864
Work by Charles R. Lohman and Joseph F. Trow, husband and brother respectively of American self-proclaimed female physician, Ann Trow Lohman (1811-1878), who sold contraceptives and provided abortions in New York City…
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Plate XXVII: Gamme chromatique: violet-rouge
- Chromatic scale of tones: purple-red
- 1864
The gamut of purple-red tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXVI: Gamme chromatique: violet
- Chromatic scale of tones: purple
- 1864
The gamut of purple tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXV: Gamme chromatique: bleu-violet
- Chromatic scale of tones: blue-purple
- 1864
The gamut of blue-purple tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXIV: Gamme chromatique: bleu
- Chromatic scale of tones: blue
- 1864
The gamut of blue tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXIII: Gamme chromatique: vert-bleu
- Chromatic scale of tones: green-blue
- 1864
The gamut of green-blue tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXII: Gamme chromatique: vert
- Chromatic scale of tones: green
- 1864
The gamut of green tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XXI: Gamme chromatique: jaune-vert
- Chromatic scale of tones: yellow-green
- 1864
The gamut of yellow-green tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XX: Gamme chromatique: jaune
- Chromatic scale of tones: yellow
- 1864
The gamut of yellow tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XVIII: Gamme chromatique: orangé
- Chromatic scale of tones: orange
- 1864
The gamut of orange tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XVII: Gamme chromatique: rouge-orangé
- Chromatic scale of tones: red-orange
- 1864
The gamut of red-orange tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XVI: Gamme chromatique: rouge
- Chromatic scale of tones: red
- 1864
The gamut of red tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XV: Gamme chromatique: gris
- Chromatic scale of tones: grey
- 1864
The gamut of grey tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XIX: Gamme chromatique: orangé-jaune
- Chromatic scale of tones: orange-yellow
- 1864
The gamut of orange-yellow tones from light to dark along a 20-tone scale, where positions 0 and 21 correspond to white and black respectively.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Ch. et A. Chardon (Paris)
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XIV: Dixième cercle chromatique
- Tenth chromatic circle
- 1864
Inscribed: "10ème cercle chromatique de Mr. Chevreul renfermant les couleurs rabattues, à 9/10 de noir."
Chevreul’s tenth chromatic circle shows the 72 pure hues from Plate V subdued with 9/10 black.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Lamoureux
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XIII: Neuvième cercle chromatique
- Ninth chromatic circle
- 1864
Inscribed: "9ème cercle chromatique de Mr. Chevreul renfermant les couleurs rabattues, à 8/10 de noir."
Chevreul’s ninth chromatic circle shows the 72 pure hues from Plate V subdued with 8/10 black.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Lamoureux
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing
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Plate XII: Huitième cercle chromatique
- Eighth chromatic circle
- 1864
Inscribed: "8ème cercle chromatique de Mr. Chevreul renfermant les couleurs rabattues, à 7/10 de noir."
Chevreul’s eighth chromatic circle shows the 72 pure hues from Plate V subdued with 7/10 black.
- Author Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène), 1786-1889
- Engraver Digeon, René Henri
- Printer Of Plates Lamoureux
- Publisher J.-B. Baillière et fils
- Subject Color--Terminology, Color separation, Colors, Color printing