Livros da Winsor & Newton

A Winsor & Newton é uma das mais antigas e mais importantes empresas fornecedoras de materiais para artistas. Fundada em 1832, em Londres, esteve profundamente ligada ao desenvolvimento e comercialização dos pigmentos que surgiram durante o século XIX.

(Ao lado, fotografia de dois tubos de tintas da Winsor & Newton usados por Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro cerca de 1920.)

Neste momento está em curso um projecto de estudo dos arquivos históricos da Winsor & Newton que prevê a colocação online de muito do material mais interessante.

A actividade da Winsor & Newton não se limitou à produção de material e de equipamento para artistas. Ao longo da sua história tem igualmente editado livros destinados a artistas. Alguns desses livros estão online. Para a história dos equipamentos e dos materiais soa especilamente úteis os catálogos que se encontram no final de alguns dos livros.

Segue a lista dos que encontrei até agora:

• Charles Boutell, Heraldry, Historical and Popular, 1863,http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC07431903&id=VcEYAAAAMAAJ

• J. W. Bradley, T. G. Goodwin, A manual of illumination on paper and vellum, [187…], http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=745.67_B81M

• Charles William Day, The art of miniature painting, 1852, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC09540730&id=5ysDAAAAQAAJ

• George Field, Chromatography: or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists, [1869], http://www.pgdp.net/c/tools/project_manager/page_detail.php?project=projectID44624f6e6141a&show_image_size=0 [Só tem acesso quem está inscrito no projecto Distributed Proofreaders.]

• Edward Groom, The art of transparent painting on glass, 1855, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC08173029&id=gSwDAAAAQAAJ

• James Duffield Harding, Drawing models, and their uses, 1854, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC45686474&id=hiwDAAAAQAAJ

• Thomas Hatton, Hints for sketching in water-colours from nature, 1853, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC45709276&id=jywDAAAAQAAJ

• Charles Martel, The principles of colouring in painting, 1855, http://books.google.com/books?vid=0RwiBU0yIAPVuZl0&id=tSwDAAAAQAAJ

• Charles Martel, The principles of form in ornamental art, 1856, http://books.google.com/books?vid=0vyQFHYKxs8rJY7Q&id=qywDAAAAQAAJ

• Henry Mogford, Hand-book for the preservation of pictures, 1851, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC19530069&id=yywDAAAAQAAJ

• Henry Murray, The art of portrait painting in oil colours, 1851, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC59217684&id=2ywDAAAAQAAJ

• Henry Murray, The art of painting and drawing in coloured crayons, 1856, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC56705870&id=3iwDAAAAQAAJ

• Aaron Edwin Penley, The elements of perspective, 1851, http://books.google.com/books?vid=0qlEGwDQdJSGtNqP&id=Wy0DAAAAQAAJ

• Henry Warren, Artistic anatomy of the human figure, 1852, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC68003575&id=oSADAAAAQAAJ

• Charles Harvey Weigall, The art of figure drawing, 1852, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC06063388&id=qy4DAAAAQAAJ

• W. Williams, Transparency painting on linen, 1855, http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC44675320&id=1y4DAAAAQAAJ