Printing colour 1700-1830: histories, techniques, functions, and receptions

Abstract

"Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions by 23 leading experts expand the corpus beyond rare fine art impressions to include many millions of colour-printed images and objects. The chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualise the rise in colour-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements. This landmark volume launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction / Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage -- Part I Materials and Techniques Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe -- Tools, Machines, and Presswork for Printing Colour in 18th-Century Europe / Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage -- Colour Printing Inks and Colour Inking in 18th-Century Europe / Elizabeth Savage -- Part II Relief Techniques: Letterpress, and Colour Woodcut -- Colour Letterpress in Europe in the Long 18th Century / Ad Stijnman -- Elisha Kirkall and his Proposals for Printing in Chiaroscuro, Natural Colours and Tints, 1720-1740 / Simon Turner -- Printing Chiaroscuro and Colour Woodcuts in Paris, Venice, and London c.1725-70 / Tico Seifert -- Bringing Colour to Books and Objects with Decorated Paper in the Long 18th Century / Sid Berger and Michèle Cloonan -- Colour for Commerce: Letterpress-Printed Ephemera in Britain, 1700-1830 / Rob Banham -- Part III Mezzotint and Trichromatic Printing -- 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, Manon van der Mullen and Victor Gonzalez -- Colouring the Body: Printed Colour in Medical Treatises during the Long Eighteenth Century / Julia Nurse -- Colour Printing in Late 18th-Century Italy: Édouard and Louis Dagoty, 1770-1800, / Alice Nicoliello -- Part IV Chalk, Pastel and Watercolour Manner, and Aquatint -- 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 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 Variant Impressions, Missing Plates, and Disappearing Inks / Margaret Morgan Grasselli -- Part V Stipple and a la Poupée -- 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-inked Colour Printing to Natural History Illustration in France, 1800-1870 / Karen Cook -- Part VI Consumer Goods and Expanding Markets for Colour Printing -- 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 Greene -- Printed Wallpaper in England in the Long Eighteenth Century / Phillippa Mapes -- Colour Printing on English Ceramics, 1751-70 / Patricia Ferguson -- Part VII Technical Experimentation and Industrialisation -- William Blake's Colour Printing: Methods & Materials / Michael Phillips -- Innovation and Tradition in Early 19th-Century Colour Printing / Michael Twyman -- The Beginnings of Commercial Colour Printing in Europe, 1835-1840 / Michael Twyman.