A Forthcoming Volume Published By Princeton University Press,

celebrates the 200th anniversary, 

of Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours with a 288-page expanded edition, all images © Thames & Hudson, 

 Nature’s Palette promises to be the ultimate colour reference for artists and naturalists for the 21st century,

in years long gone naturalists and scientists relied on elaborate taxonomic descriptions to identify flora and fauna. One of those invaluable materials was Werner’sNomenclature of Colours, a universal catalogue originally arranged by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1814 and updated with more detail by Patrick Syme just a few years later,

the volume was the guide for artists, zoologists, botanists, and others working with pigments and the natural world throughout the 19th Century, is filled with hundreds of simple swatches and notes on where the various shades can be found around the globe,

the forthcoming volume is published by Princeton University Press is introduced by Patrick Baty, Nature’sPalette: A Color Reference System from the Natural World pairs Syme’s 110 simple swatches with more than 800 illustrations of the animals, plants, and minerals detailed in the descriptions,

what a treasure trove of the natural world.