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COLOUR THEORY. GARTSIDE, MARY. An essay on a new theory of colours, and on composition in general, illustrated by coloured blots shewing the application of the theory to composition of flowers, landscapes, figures, etc. 2nd edition. London (J. Barfield - T. Gardiner - W. Miller - I. and A. Arch) 1808.

4to (c. 275x215 mm.). (5), 6-62 pp. 8 water-colours [abstract so called "blots"], 1 hand-coloured diagram of a small colour pyramid, 2 hand-coloured diagrams [titled table I and II], all coloured by a contemporary hand (complete, a few plates with faint dampstains, mostly marginal, some plates creased, 1 plate with some staining, some offsetting of colour to text, title dampstained, text dampstained in the beginning, some staining on pages 49-50, text leaf table III dampstained). Printed dedication to Lady Sophia Gray of Dunham Massey Cheshire.
Untrimmed as issued in contemporary paperbinding, heavily worn, stained and with damages, spine with damages, split inner joints, partly loose in binding, endpapers spotted and partly dampstained.

Rare work on colour theory, first published in 1805, under title: "An Essay on Light and Shade on Colours and on Composition in General". Pages [11]-43 are sheets from the 1805 edition.

Mary Gartside (active 1781-1809), English water colourist, colour theorist and flower painter. Gartside´s colour theory was published privately under the disguise of a traditional water colouring manual. Until well into the twentieth century, she remained the only woman known to have published a theory of colour. She exhibited some of her own art work, paintings of flowers in watercolour, at the Royal Academy in 1781 and at the Associated Artists in Water-Color in London in 1808, Apart from the two works on colour theory, she also published the work "Ornamental Groups, Descriptive of Flowers, Birds, Shells, Fruit, Insects, &c., and Illustrative of a New Theory of Colouring " in 1808.

Provenance: The consigners´ family is related to James Sowerby (1757-1822) through their great grandmother, who was the daughter Charlotte Ann Sowerby (Lottie), later married Bryant. The family´s grandmother later bought this work in London in the 1920´s.

Auktionsnummer:

6178

Datum:

2019-06-14