Mary Gartside's Essay antedates James Sowerby’s and Goethe’s treatises on colour, while its illustrations have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting.
“The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)
Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 12:14
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours