Wiener Farbenkabinet : oder, vollständiges Musterbuch aller Natur= Grund= und Zusammensetzungsfarben ..
The Wiener Farbenkabinet is a 1794 colour sample book published in Vienna and Prague by the v. Schönfeldsche Handlung, intended as a complete pattern collection of natural, primary and mixed colours for trade and craft use. Its pages are numbered tables of rectangular painted swatches, each labelled with a German colour name and a sample number, arranged in grids by hue family such as reds, greens, blues and blue-greens. A designer can take from these pages a systematic palette of graded tints and shades, with each hue rendered as a set of closely related steps from light to dark.
