Book Launch for Printing Colour 1700–1830

Time: 4pm (London) 11am (New York)

This event is the public launch of the landmark volume Printing Colour 1700-1830: Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions, edited by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Elizabeth Savage, Proceedings of the British Academy, (Oxford University Press, 2024). 

Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 field-defining contributions, by 26 leading experts, expand the corpus far beyond the beautiful, already well-studied images produced in European hubs like London and Paris.

Across 450 pages, and 350 colour images, the chapters unveil the explosive growth in the production and marketing of colour prints at this pivotal moment. They address the numerous scientific and technological advances that fed the burgeoning popularity for such diverse colour-printed consumer goods as clothing, textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics. They recontextualise the rise in colour-printed paper currencies, book endpapers and typography, and ephemera, including lottery tickets and advertisements. 

This landmark volume launches colour printing of the long 18th century as an interdisciplinary field of study, opening new avenues for research across historical and scientific fields.

For details, see https://global.oup.com/academic/product/printing-colour-1700---1830-9780197267530 (30% off with code AUFLY30)

• David Alexander / Fitzwilliam Museum, Print Quarterly
• Rob Banham / University of Reading
• Sidney Berger / Peabody Essex Museum
• Dionysia Christoforou / Rijksmuseum
• Michèle V. Cloonan / Simmons University
• Patricia F. Ferguson / formerly British Museum 
• Victor Gonzalez / École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay
• Susan W. Greene / independent scholar 
• Rena M. Hoisington / National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• Geert-Jan Janse / Vereniging Rembrandt
• Corinne Le Bitouzé / Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Alice Nicoliello / independent scholar
• Julia Nurse / Wellcome Collection
• Phillippa Mapes / National Trust
• Manon van der Mullen / Rijksmuseum
• Chiara Palandri / National Library of Norway
• Michael Phillips / independent scholar
• Tico Seifert / National Galleries of Scotland
• Karen Severud Cook / formerly University of Kansas
• Benedetta Spadaccini / Bibliotheca Ambrosiana
• Ad Stijnman / independent scholar
• Zalina Tetermazova / State Historical Museum, Moscow
• Simon Turner / New Hollstein
• Michael Twyman / University of Reading