Paper, 'Some experiments and observations on the colours used in painting by the ancients' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy
Reference number: PT/9/8
Date: 14 January 1815
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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
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 61 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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