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1. The materials and methods of hand-colouring zoological illustrations.

Author

Jackson, Christine E.

Subjects
*ZOOLOGICAL illustration, *BIOLOGICAL illustration, *NATURAL history illustration, *ANIMAL pictures, *WATERCOLOR painting, *MONOCHROME painting, *COLOR in art, *PAPER, *PAINTBRUSHES
Abstract

Thousands of colourists were employed to hand-colour illustrations in zoological books and journals during two centuries. They followed pattern plates that were prints with monochrome outlines coloured by the artist for them to copy. Accounts of the materials that they used, and the methods employed to achieve fine coloured plates closely resembling the original water-colours, have been collected from many documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011
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