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• Title:Colour and progressive sheets : Baxter colour prints.
  
• Published/Created:[London : J.M. Kronheim & Co.], [1909]
  
• Physical Description:[20] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 27 x 32 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Folio A N 141
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:Cover title.
  Progressive color sheets for two prints published by J.M. Kronheim & Co., "Duty" and "Dignity," using the (George) Baxter process (i.e. chromoxylography, the "imposition of successive colored wood blocks over a monochrome key impression ..."--cf. Friedman, J. Color printing in England, p. 21)
  Plates appeared in Nobility of life / L. Valentine. London, Frederick Warne and Company, 1869. (BAC has 2 copies in variant publisher's bindings: PR1111/C6/V3/1869)
  "In order to preserve a record of the progressive colour stages of the building up of the pictures, a few sets of pulls were taken from the blocks and bound up as a series."--"Baxter" colour prints, p. 10.
  Extracts from press reactions to the publication of the two prints are gathered in leaflet with title: "Baxter" colour prints (London, 1909).
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Baxter, George, 1804-1867.
  Color prints.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1909-
  Kronheim (J. M.) & Co.--Printer
  
• Genre/Form:Chromoxylographs--1909.
  
• Also listed under:Valentine, L. (Laura), -1899. Nobility of life.
  Kronheim & Co.