Mauve

Description

The first synthetic basic dye. The pale purple color was patented in August 1856 by William Perkin, a Scottish chemist. Mauve is an aniline based dye that is composed of amino-phenylamino-p-tolyl ditolazonium sulfate. It was synthesized from coal-tar when Perkin treated aniline with sulfuric acid and potassium dichromate. Mauve is not lightfast and but is still occasionally used in some watercolor paints.

Mauve

Synonyms and Related Terms

aniline violet; CI 50245; mauveine; Malven (Deut.); mauve (Fr., Ned.); mauvéïne (Fr.); pourpre d'aniline (Fr.); violetto anilina (It.); malva (Port.); Perkin's violet; Perkin's purple; aniline purple

Composition	C27H25N4(SO4)1/2

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Additional Information

° R. J. Gettens and G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966.

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Authority

• R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966

• Reed Kay, The Painter's Guide To Studio Methods and Materials, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1983

• Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

• Rosalie Rosso King, Textile Identification, Conservation, and Preservation, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, 1985

• F. Crace-Calvert, Dyeing and Calico Printing, Palmer & Howe, London, 1876

• A.Scharff, 'Synthetic dyestuffs for textiles and their fastness to washing', ICOM-CC Preprints Lyon, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1999

• Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000