• Moses Harris, Prismatic colors, [1766]. This second copy of Harris's prismatic color wheel shows some common problems for eighteenth-century, hand-colored images. The colors have aged differently and the colors in the whole circle look different from those of the first copy. Source: From Moses Harris, The Natural System of Colours . . . (London, [1766]).

This second copy of Harris's prismatic color wheel shows some common problems for eighteenth-century, hand-colored images. The colors have aged differently and the colors in the whole circle look different from those of the first copy. Source: From Moses Harris, The Natural System of Colours . . . (London, [1766]).

From The creation of color in eighteenth-century Europe by Sarah Lowengard

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  • European: 1400-1800
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