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Two copies of the manuscript.

Subject: Anthropology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Some experiments and observations on the colours used in painting by the ancients'.

Written by Davy in Rome. Read 23 February 1815.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

Reference number
PT/9/8
Earliest possible date
14 January 1815
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Ink on paper
Page extent
61 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Some experiments and observations on the colours used in painting by the ancients' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 14 January 1815, PT/9/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_8/paper-some-experiments-and-observations-on-the-colours-used-in-painting-by-the-ancients-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 02 November 2024

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