Winsor & Newton Colourman's Manuscript Archive: Page-Image Database of Historic Recipes for Paint Making

艺术家的配色师温莎和牛顿公司（windsor & Newton）档案中的食谱，现在可以通过一个结构新颖的数据库访问，该数据库显示每个手写页面的完整图像以及电子摘要索引。该档案从19世纪30年代开始，详细介绍了颜料、粘合剂、介质和管漆的制备，从而首次提供了19世纪商业涂料配方的访问，并深入了解了艺术家和他的材料之间的关系。这种独特的资源对于真实性研究，科学分析以及历史艺术作品的保护和保存是无价的。

Recipes from the archive of Winsor & Newton, artists' colourman, are being made accessible by an innovatively structured database which displays full images of each hand-written page alongside an electronic summary index. The archive, beginning in the 1830s, details the manufacture of pigments, binders, mediums and the preparation of tube paint, thereby providing access for the first time to commercial 19**^ century paint formulations as well as insight into the relationship between the artist and his materials. This unique resource is invaluable for authenticity studies, scientific analyses and the care and preservation of historic works of art.