Sujet

Prismatic Colour Wheel, 18th century. Creator: Moses Harris.

Légende

Prismatic Colour Wheel, 18th century. From "The Natural System of Colours, Wherein is displayed the regular and beautiful Order and Arrangement, Arising from the Three Premitives, Red, Blue, and Yellow, The manner in which each Colour is formed, and its Composition, The dependance they have on each other, and by their Harmonious Connections Are produced the Teints, or Colours, of every Object in the Creation, And those Teints, tho' so numerous as 660, are all comprised in Thirty Three Terms, only By Moses Harris, Author of the Aurelian, &c. &c.", [published between 1769 and 1776?].

Date

1769

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM25A05_418

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

36,0Mo (2,3Mo) / 27,1cm x 33,3cm / 3198 x 3937 (300dpi)

Mots clés

arts optics light art book colours British color circle century Britain diagram print literature spectrum prism hand-tinted engraved engraving primary colour Colour 18th century Eighteenth Century etched hand tinted etching hand coloured etching hand-coloured Royal Academy of Arts colour theory chromatic scale prismatic Moses Harris Harris Moses