Colour materiality narratives reveal the literary and artistic impact of new scientific approaches to chromatic materiality.

Symphony in White, No. 2

Colour Materiality

1864

All Whistler’s colours in white

Joyce H. Townsend

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Letter from Camille Koechlin to Horace Koechlin

Colour Materiality

1861

Fixing aniline violets around 1860: a European network

Marie-Anne Sarda

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Symphony in White n°1: The White Girl

Colour Materiality

1861

From Colour to Music: James McNeill Whistler

Marte Stinis

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Bookcase

Colour Materiality

1862

From old to new: the colours of William Burges’s Great Bookcase

Tea Ghigo

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Fuchsine RENARD

Colour Materiality

1858

Fuchsine

Irene Bilbao-Zubiri

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Fuchsine-dyed fibers

Colour Materiality

1859

Fuchsine and Fashion: a Bright Pinkish Trend

Alessandra Ronetti

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Erechtheion

Colour Materiality

1851

Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy

Isabelle Kalinowski

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Wells painting 1

Colour Materiality

1850

Joanna Mary Boyce: colourist and innovator

Joyce H. Townsend

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Wells sketching box

Colour Materiality

1850

Joanna Mary Boyce’s paintboxes

Joyce H. Townsend

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Kaleidoscopic colour top

Colour Materiality

1858

John Gorham’s Colour Top

Paul Smith

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Barnard's sketchbook

Colour Materiality

1855

Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual

Alexandra Loske

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Wilkinson colours

Colour Materiality

1858

On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours

Joyce Dixon

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Catalogue général de la parfumerie et savonnerie Gellé frères, vers 1885.

Colour Materiality

1868

Perfumes: The Future of Synthetic Colours

Erika Wicky

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Black fashion

Colour Materiality

1879

Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles

Edgar Pansu

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Watts painting

Colour Materiality

1852

Purple Lake

Joy Cador

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Lustre decorations

Colour Materiality

1855

Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica

Rosarosa Manca

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Alma Tadema painting

Colour Materiality

1868

The chromatic world of Alma-Tadema: an overview of his library

Joy Cador

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Rossetti painting 1

Colour Materiality

1856

Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Joyce H. Townsend

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Siddal 1

Colour Materiality

1856

Watercolours by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal

Joyce H. Townsend

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The Shadow of Death

Colour Materiality

1870

William Holman Hunt and the Racialization of Roberson’s Orange Vermilion in The Shadow of Death (1870-1873)

Kirsty Dootson

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