Compound Colour Wheel

Moses Harris (1730 - ca. 1788)

RA Collection: Art

Title

Artist/printmaker

Moses Harris (1730 - ca. 1788)

From

Moses Harris, The natural system of colours, London [between 1769 and 1776?], pl.[1]

Object type

Plate

Medium

Hand-coloured etching

Dimensions

192 mm

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts

Object number

03/6232

This image is from a book

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. - [between 1769 and 1776?]

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Keywords

colour theory Colourful Triangles

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