Hayter's compendium : Determining the natural consanguinity of colours in legitimate order of descent, by the unavoidable consequence of union or mixture of any two approximating predecessors from the three primitives down to their equilateral concentration into palpable shade. : The natural contrast to each colour, is its opposite in the scale.

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Creator:: Hayter, Charles, 1761-1835
Title(s):: Hayter's compendium : Determining the natural consanguinity of colours in legitimate order of descent, by the unavoidable consequence of union or mixture of any two approximating predecessors from the three primitives down to their equilateral concentration into palpable shade. : The natural contrast to each colour, is its opposite in the scale.
Additional Title(s):: Compendium
Published/Created:: [London] : Publish'd as the Act directs by Joseph Dickenson, New Bond St. & sold by the author, 16 Buckingham St. Portland Place, [ca. 1826]
Physical Description:: [1] sheet : ill. ; 38 x 28 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2008 4
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8177125
Classification:: Books
Notes:: At head of title: Professor of Perspective to Her Late R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Sax Cobourg.
"This new chromatic scale, alludes to colour only, by mixture of palpable materials, within & among themselves, the effect of light must evidently be produc'd by diluting, or mixing white with them, which duly comprehended, makes the above a systematic datum, both as to the descent of colours to shade or ascent to light."--At foot of page, preceding imprint.
Engraved by Thomas Turnbull; after Charles Hayter.
The engraved plate was issued separately from any of Hayter's publications, but presumably around the time of his New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours, 1826.
Subject Terms:: Color -- Study and teaching.
Color guides.
Dickinson, Joseph -- Publisher.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1826.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:: Color wheels.
Contributors:: Hayter, Charles, 1761-1835, ill.
Turnbull, Thomas, steel engraver, engraver.
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