The Technology of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Red Lake Pigments

Authors: Kirby, Jo; Spring, Marika; Higgitt, Catherine

Source: The National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 28, Number 1, January 2007 , pp. 69-96(28)

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Abstract:

Cochineal and, later, madder were the most important natural dyes used for red lake pigments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However, as a result of developments in the technology of the dyestuffs and in the processes involved in pigment making, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lakes show important differences to those made from the same two colorants in earlier centuries.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2007-01-01

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