🎨 The Pigment Cabinet

Hall of Colour · Catalogue 13 · Pigment pots

🎨 The Pigment Cabinet

Colour as a dated substance. Each pot is a first-use, a chemistry, and a verdict: still on the palette, replaced, or locked in the poison cupboard. Swatches are screen approximations — never a spectrophotometer.

Dates follow conservation literature (Eastaugh et al., Pigment Compendium; Gettens & Stout). “First use” is the earliest well-attested artist or industry use, not the mineral’s existence. Toxicity notes are historical, not COSHH sheets.

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