Red Beside Purple

Two long-necked flasks on a bare page, one half full of red and the other of deep purple.

Work: Von der Universal Tinctur (author's holograph manuscript)
Artist / creator: Christian Wilhelm von Krohnemann (d. 1686)
Origin & date: Bayreuth, 1677
Held by: Wellcome Collection, London

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The story

Two long-necked flasks stand side by side on a bare page, each stoppered and drawn in fine outline. The left one is filled to half its belly with a hard, bright red, and a few words of German are written into the empty glass above it. The right one holds a deep purple. Nothing else is on the leaf. Krohnemann's Von der Universal Tinctur, written and drawn in his own hand at Bayreuth in 1677, runs through dozens of these paired flasks, each pair a record of how a liquid should look at one moment of the work. Read as a sequence, they form a colour chart drawn more than three centuries before the word existed.

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