Author: Winsor and Newton
Title: List of Colours and Materials for Drawing and Water-Colour Painting, Manufactured and Sold by Winsor and Newton, No. 38, Rathbone Place, London
Description: London, By the authors, 1855. Trade catalog, n. d. (ca 1855); 7 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 3-32; rebound in marbled wraps, with the original back wrap preserved; illustrated with numerous woodcuts; a few minor smudges to margins; text block a bit wobbly; rear endpaper with loss of paper to bottom margin; in good to very good condition. A beautiful trade catalog of art supplies, it was issued in the mid-19th century by Winsor and Newton - manufacturers of a wide range of high-quality, fine-art products. Founded in 1832 by chemist William Winsor and artist Henry Newton, the company would develop the first moist watercolors, utilizing the moisture-retaining properties of glycerine. Gaining rapid and well-deserved popularity would lead to their appointment as "Artists' Colourmen to Queen Victoria" in 1841. The company would subsequently pioneer and patent several other art supplies, including glass syringes to replace bladders as oil color containers and the first screw cap mechanism for a collapsible metal tube. Two engravings at the beginnng of the catalog represented the medal they would win at the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851 - the only prize to be awarded for artists' colors. The company would also make and retail brushes, drawing papers, sketching portfolios, etc. Many of these products, including paints in collapsible tubes, watercolors in lavish mahogany boxes, fine sable brushes, and so on, were pictured and described with properties and prices in the current catalog. Good .

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