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Da wird es (von einer Kunsthistorikerin!) ziemlich genau erklärt:
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“You could have asked for it to be coloured by a professional, but it became quite fashionable to hand-colour it yourself. It was an activity for nobles,” said art historian Anne Louise Avery. “Before the printing press, you had manuscript maps which were so valuable you would have wanted a professional, plus the pigments were so expensive. Then there were woodblock maps, which needed heavy pigments. But these were copperplate maps, so they needed lighter paints, and this tied in with the development of watercolours. They became really popular - there was the theory that they would improve your mind – it was early mindfulness.”
Avery pointed to the words of Henry Peacham, in his 1622 Compleat Gentleman, in which he advised that the basics of hand-colouring were easy to learn, and highly beneficial. “I could wish you now and then, to exercise your Pensill in washing and colouring, which at your leasure you may in one fortnight easily learne to doe: for the practise of the hand, doth speedily instruct the mind, and strongly confirme the memorie beyond any thing else,” wrote Peacham, predating the spiritual claims of colouring-in publishers today.
“Colouring became consistently popular as an activity, and this went on until the 19th century, when technology meant that you could print full-colour maps,” said Avery, who discovered the maps when researching the writings of Drayton.
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