David Ramsay Hay
David Ramsay Hay
Life
David Ramsay Hay was the son of
Hay was an advocate of imitative finishes such as graining and marbling, and textured paints to imitate brocade fabrics.[8] From 1828, he developed his theory of colour harmony over six successive editions of his book, The Laws of Harmonious Colouring Adapted to Interior Decorations.[9] Hay wrote about his experience decorating Abbotsford for Walter Scott in the sixth edition of his Harmonious Colouring.[10]
In his final years he had exclusive premises at 90 George Street in the centre of Edinburgh's New Town.[11]
He died in Edinburgh on 10 September 1866.[4] He is buried in Warriston Cemetery in the north of the city. The substantial tombstone stands to the south-west of the sealed eastern entrance. The monument is vandalised and the original bronze bas-relief sculpture of his profile has been stolen.[citation needed]
Publications
see[12]
- The Laws of Harmonious Colouring in House Painting (1828)
- The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form (1842)
- Proportion: or the Geometric Principle of Beauty Analysed (1843)
- First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty (1846)
- The Science of Beauty (1856)[13]
"A Nomenclature of Colours" (1845)
References
- ^ Lonsdale, Roger H., ed., Eighteenth Century Women Poets: an Anthology, OUP (1990) 445.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1798
- ^ "Oxford Index". Oxfordindex.oup.com.
- ^ a b "Papers of David Ramsay Hay (1798-1866)". Archiveshub.ac.uk.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1812
- ^ Hay, Harmonious Colouring, 6th edition (1847), 182.
- ^ Morton, Theresa-May, Royal Residences of the Victorian Era (Royal Collection, 1991), pp. 53-59.
- ^ Bristow, Ian C., Interior House Painting Colours & Technology, 1615-1840, Yale (1996), 141.
- ^ Bristow, Ian C., Architectural Colour in British Interiors, 1615-1840 (Yale, 1996), p. 191
- ^ Harmonious Colouring (Edinburgh, 1847), pp. 181-97, see external links.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1866-67
- ^ "Hay, David Ramsay". En.wikisource.org.
- ^ Hay, David (1856). "The Science of Beauty". William Blackwood & Sons. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
External links
- National Portrait Gallery page with biography of Hay
- Rebekah Carmichael at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
- Carmichael, Rebekah, Poems by Miss Carmichael, Edinburgh (1790) (list of subscribers names of interest)
- Hay, David Ramsay, The Laws of Harmonious Colouring Adapted to Interior Decorations, 3rd edition (1836)
- The Laws of Harmonious Colouring Adapted to Interior Decorations, 6th edition (1847)
- Hay, David Ramsay, Proportion or, The Laws of Beauty Analysed, Blackwood (1843)
- Hay, David Ramsay, The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized, Blackwood (1845)
- Hay, David Ramsay, First Principles of Symmetrical Beauty, Blackwood (1846)
- Hay, David Ramsay, The Natural Principle of Beauty, as developed in the Human Figure, Blackwood (1852)
- Hay, David Ramsay, The Harmonic Law of Nature Applied to Architectural Design, Blackwood (1855)
- Hay, David Ramsay, The Science of Beauty: as developed in Applied Art and Nature, Blackwood (1856)
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