{"id":9,"date":"2005-06-14T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblogbeta\/2005\/06\/14\/an-ancestor-of-paint-by-numbers\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T09:22:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T13:22:03","slug":"an-ancestor-of-paint-by-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2005\/06\/14\/an-ancestor-of-paint-by-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ancestor of Paint-By-Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a10\"><\/a>The modern form of <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/paint\/\">Paint-By-Numbers<\/a> was a fad that swept the country in the 1950s, but it had an 18th century antecedent in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lms01.harvard.edu\/F?func=find-c&amp;CCL_TERM=sys=001109880\">work of William Gilpin<\/a>. Gilpin, a landscape artist whose work influenced the Romantic movement, published several books in the 1780s which combined travel writing with Gilpin&#8217;s philosophy of art, and included etchings of Gilpin&#8217;s watercolors of the scenery. Gilpin advised his readers to construct a table of different colors, each numbered, and carry that table with them when they went sketching. They could then label each feature of a sketch with the appropriate number, to accurately reproduce the colors when painting the scene later at home.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"374\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/hydeblog\/PaintByNumbers.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern form of Paint-By-Numbers was a fad that swept the country in the 1950s, but it had an 18th century antecedent in the work of William Gilpin. Gilpin, a landscape artist whose work influenced the Romantic movement, published several books in the 1780s which combined travel writing with Gilpin&#8217;s philosophy of art, and included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}