In 1817, George Field published Chromatics or, the Analogy, Harmony and Philosophy of Colours. Field examines in this work the science of the relations of light, shade, and color and proposes a color harmony model analogous to music’s harmony system. Exact date of this event is unknown; if you have information about the correct date, please email felluga@purdue.edu with this information. Image: George Field by David Lucas, 1845; after Richard Rothwell mezzotint (1839) © National Portrait Gallery, London. Used with permission.

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Linda M. Shires, "On Color Theory, 1835: George Field’s Chromatography"