Foreword 7 Acknowledgements 9 Preface 11 Elizabeth Prettejohn 1. glowing colour 'The Age of Colour': Victorian Britain (1837-1901) 17 Matthew Winterbottom and Charlotte Ribeyrol Colour in Ruskin's Teachings 31 Colin Harrison Turner's Paintings of Venice 37 Colin Harrison 'The Gothic school of colour': Reviving the Hues of the Middle Ages 43 Charlotte Ribeyrol Unweaving the Rainbow: Nature's Colours in Art, 59 Fashion and Design Madeline Hewitson Pretty Plant Photographers or Pioneers? Anna Atkins and 71 Sarah Angelina Acland Lena Fritsch Object in Focus: Harry Emanuel, 'Hummingbird Necklace' (1865) 78 Madeline Hewitson 2. colour for all 'The Triumph of Colour': the Synthetic Colour Revolution 87 Matthew Winterbottom 'More brilliant tints than fancy could conceive' - Exhibiting 103 Colour: The 1862 International Exhibition Matthew Winterbottom Object in Focus: The Great Bookcase: Between Medieval and 116 Victorian Colour Tea Ghigo Surface Matters: Skin Colour, Race and Materiality 123 Madeline Hewitson 'Wedding archaeology with art': the Rediscovery of 131 Ancient Polychromy Charlotte Ribeyrol Journeys for Colour: Artist-Travellers and British Orientalism 143 Madeline Hewitson Object in Focus: Owen Jones, The History of Joseph and His 156 Brethren (1865) Madeline Hewitson 'The gorgeous contributions of India': Sourcing Colour 163 in the British Empire Matthew Winterbottom and Madeline Hewitson 3. colour for colour's sake Colour for Colour's Sake 173 Stefano Evangelista and Charlotte Ribeyrol Object in Focus: James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne: Blue and 192 Gold, St Mark's Venice (1880) Madeline Hewitson Queer Colours 197 Stefano Evangelista Object in Focus: Fin-de-siècle Tanagras 204 Charlotte Ribeyrol Object in Focus: Japanese Board Game 212 Clare Pollard The Electric Fairy: Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) 217 Matthew Winterbottom Object List 222 Notes 228 Bibliography 232 Image Credits 238.