19th century color palette

Fairy tales old book cover color palette created by anahoret that consists #cab891,#70683b,#81231e,#5f6a54,#2b2c1e colors.

"Painted Ladies" they're called-- Victorian homes are usually dated from between 1880-1915 (ish). Queen Anne is the most orna...

a caelo usque ad centrum - from the sky into the center. A collection of pictures: Colors - threads, yarns, fibers, quilts, fabrics, denim/indigo, and fashion. Patina - leather, wood, satin. The visual - detail, white kitchens, pearls in paintings, pears, skies, sunflowers, lonely roads and...

Sherwin Williams "Heritage Colors" 1820-1920. 40 historic 19th C. hues that capture the grace and elegance of another era.

Fig. 1. Wet-collodion photograph by R. R. Morganweck. Courtesy of Virginia and Michael Mescher, 1999. When in 1999 Civil War re-enactors and sutlers Michael and Virginia Mescher dressed for a peri...

For more information about historic paint colors for your Victorian or Arts and Crafts era home, please visit the Historic Design Consulting Website today! To view part two of the Victorian Paint Colors post, click here! I was asked recently if I used colors from the historic color collections of major paint manufactures such as Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore during my paint consults. My answer was no. In fact, I really don't know much about these "historic" lines of paint colors because…

A demand for more robust art curriculum at the turn of the 19th century prompted the Prang Art Textbooks. By B. E. Snow (1865-1925) and H. B. Froehlich (1862-1925), these were the first graded textbooks (Grades 1 through 7) specifically for use by the student. https://archive.org/details/textbooksofarted07froe/

TRADITIONAL COLOURS - Paint Colours From The 18th and Early 19th Centuries - The colours in the Traditional Colour Range are a number of those in use by the house-painter between 150 and 300 years ago. The colours have been taken from three main sources: A set of painters' sample cards dating from 1807; The research of two of the foremost authorities in the subject; colour matches of early paint recipes using near-original ingredients.

A demand for more robust art curriculum at the turn of the 19th century prompted the Prang Art Textbooks. By B. E. Snow (1865-1925) and H. B. Froehlich (1862-1925), these were the first graded textbooks (Grades 1 through 7) specifically for use by the student. https://archive.org/details/textbooksofarted07froe/

Already the ancient civilizations were fascinated with the color blue, even before there was a proper name for it. Joan Miró took its allure to...