John Wilkes
Physics - Optics, 1820
An original hand-coloured antique copper-engraving
10 x 8 in
26 x 20 cm
26 x 20 cm
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Allegory of Prismatical colour as seven women. Generative and primitive elements wear a crown and mantle, with ray of yellow red or blue only, the other figures composites. Each holding...
Allegory of Prismatical colour as seven women. Generative and primitive elements wear a crown and mantle, with ray of yellow red or blue only, the other figures composites. Each holding a flower of their colour: jonquil - yellow, gren bough - vert, marigold - orange, blue bell - blue, corn poppy - red, blue bottle - indigo and a violet. Optical instruments in the corner and above in Hebrew 'God said let there be Light, and there was Light'.
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