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Article: Fabien Gautier d'Agoty and his 'Histoire Naturelle Regne Mineral' (1781). (includes related article)(Mineral Books)
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- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- July 1, 1995
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Jean Fabien Gautier d'Agoty (1747-1781) was the fifth son of Jacques Fabien Gautier (1716-1785), a French pioneer in the development of color printing. Jacques had been an assistant and successor to the painter and engraver Jacques Christophe Le Blon (1670-1741), inventor of the chromolithographic printing process. He had experimented with color printing techniques before knowing of Le Blon, using a three-color process, but in 1737 Le Blon was granted a patent on three-color printing. The following year, Gautier was invited to join Le Blon as his assistant, and was promised a share of the profits. But the two personalities clashed, and Gautier left after working only 18 ...