On 30/06/2015 14:59, Regina Haring wrote:
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I'd like to know if there is a standard
way that these colors are described in museum terminology.
My Buckinghamshire County Library Service has copies of the "Methuen
Handbook of Colour" both on reference and loan. You can see it here:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Methuen-Handbook-Colour-Ann-Mari-Kornerup/dp/0413334007/ref=sr_1_1/275-8405497-4350702?ie=UTF8&qid=1435685608&sr=8-1&keywords=9780413334008
I understand that it is the standard reference for colours. There is
some technical information, but most of the book consists of small
squares of all colours, (like a houshold paint chart), each with its own
number. That is, so far as I remember. It is some years since I used
it, but at that time it was on the recommendation of my sister, for whom
it was part of the equipment of all laboratories, where she worked as a
senior member of what was then the national forensic science service.
Of course, that is nothing to do with museums, but it may still be
useful if you can't find anything else.
Good luck, and I'm so pleased to learn that someone is doing such a
worthwhile job.
Linda Walton, (in hot and sticky High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.).
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