Paper, 'An account of Mr James Christoper Le Blon's principles of printing in imitation of painting and of weaveing tapestry in the same manner as brocades' by Cromwell Mortimer
Reference number: CLP/2/29
Date: 1731
Description
Mortimer describes Le Blon's methods for creating prints of paintings and woven objects, and his underlying colour theory and 'harmony of colouring'.
Subject: Chemistry / Trade
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of Mr. James Christopher Le Blon's principles of printing, in imitation of painting, and of weaving tapestry, in the same manner as brocades'.
Read to the Royal Society on 29 April 1731.
- Reference number
- CLP/2/29
- Earliest possible date
- 1731
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 13 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Cromwell Mortimer, Paper, 'An account of Mr James Christoper Le Blon's principles of printing in imitation of painting and of weaveing tapestry in the same manner as brocades' by Cromwell Mortimer, 1731, CLP/2/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_29/paper-an-account-of-mr-james-christoper-le-blons-principles-of-printing-in-imitation-of-painting-and-of-weaveing-tapestry-in-the-same-manner-as-brocades-by-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 14 December 2024
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Date: 31st December 1731
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1731.0019
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Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
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