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The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to house painting. By D. R. Hay, of the firm of Nicholson and Hay, house painters, Edinburgh.
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HAY, David Ramsay (1798--1866)
The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to house painting. By D. R. Hay, of the firm of Nicholson and Hay, house painters, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh printed for D. Lizars; G.B. Whittaker, London; and W. Curry, jun. and Co. Dublin, 1828.
[4], 68 p. ; 20.0 cm. (8º)
Though dismissed by Thomas Phillips (1770--1845) and by Owen Jones, Hay's book was the most important nineteenth-century manual on colour and went through six editions and a German translation. Its first appearance coincided with the establishment of the firm of Nicholson and Hay, house painters, which was also highly successful. Hay was initially encouraged to be a decorative painter by Sir Walter Scott who employed him at Abbotsford, c. 1820. (See S. Jervis, The Penguin dictionary of design and designers, London 1984, p. 225--6).
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane Esq/ From the Author. With an inserted letter dated June 28 [w/m 1829] from Phillips, portrait painter and professor of painting at the Royal Academy, 1825--32, to Soane thanking him for the loan of this book, which he considered not very philosophical and incorrect in theory, and presenting him with a cast of a piece of Mexican sculpture.
Binding C19th publisher's paper boards printed as title-page, with publisher's list on back cover.
Reference Number 2438
The laws of harmonious colouring adapted to house painting. By D. R. Hay, of the firm of Nicholson and Hay, house painters, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh printed for D. Lizars; G.B. Whittaker, London; and W. Curry, jun. and Co. Dublin, 1828.
[4], 68 p. ; 20.0 cm. (8º)
Though dismissed by Thomas Phillips (1770--1845) and by Owen Jones, Hay's book was the most important nineteenth-century manual on colour and went through six editions and a German translation. Its first appearance coincided with the establishment of the firm of Nicholson and Hay, house painters, which was also highly successful. Hay was initially encouraged to be a decorative painter by Sir Walter Scott who employed him at Abbotsford, c. 1820. (See S. Jervis, The Penguin dictionary of design and designers, London 1984, p. 225--6).
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on front free-endpaper John Soane Esq/ From the Author. With an inserted letter dated June 28 [w/m 1829] from Phillips, portrait painter and professor of painting at the Royal Academy, 1825--32, to Soane thanking him for the loan of this book, which he considered not very philosophical and incorrect in theory, and presenting him with a cast of a piece of Mexican sculpture.
Binding C19th publisher's paper boards printed as title-page, with publisher's list on back cover.
Reference Number 2438