Writing

Patrick Baty has produced annotated bibliographies for the Georgian Group, Victorian Society and for English Heritage, as well as contributing information from his unpublished analysis of 18th and 19th house-painting manuals. He has also published a number of articles (which are listed below) and contributed to, and revised, several books on colour and decoration, including Paint Magic, Colour in Decoration, Regency Style, Adam Style, Palladian Style, and The Georgian Group Guide to the Georgian House. 

Some published works:

• "Palette of Historic Paints." Country Life, 20 Feb. 1992: 56-57.
• "Comment." [On the new restrictions on the use of lead paint] Country Life, 30 Apr. 1992: 44.
• "Palette of the Past." Country Life, 3 Sep. 1992: 44-47.
• "External Paintwork." The Building Conservation Directory 1993. 1993: 89.
• "A Potted History." Perspectives on Architecture. April 1994: 70-71.
• "My True Colours." The Architects' Journal. 15 June 1994: 50.
• "The Role of Paint Analysis in the Historic Interior." The Journal of Architectural Conservation. March 1995: 27-37.
• "To Scrape or Not to Scrape ?" Traditional Paint News, Vol 1 No 2 October 1996: 9-15.
• "Some Myths Laid to Rest." ?" Traditional Paint News, Vol 1 No 2 October 1996: 39-46.
• "Getting the Measure of Colour." Historic House, Vol 24 No 4 November 2000: 40-42.
• "Some Tips on Commissioning Paint Analysis." In Layers of Understanding: Setting Standards for Architectural Paint Research Proceedings of a seminar held on 28th April 2000. Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2002.
• House Decoration, by Paul Hasluck. An introduction to the facsimile edition. Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2001.
• "Just How Authentic are Authentic Colour Schemes?" The Professional Painter & Decorator, August/September 2001: 26-28.
• "Inspired by the Past?" In John Fowler: The Invention of the Country-House Style. Donhead Publishing, Dorset. 2005. This paper follows the English Heritage/Traditional Paint Forum conference Inspired by the Past that took place in London on 4th July 2001.
• "The Colours of Chelsea." The Chelsea Society Report 2003.
• "The Colours of Calke." The World of Interiors December 2007: 139-143.
• "Exterior Colour on the Smaller Town House" in Materials & Skills for Historic Building Conservation. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 2008.
• "The Colourful Past of the Royal Festival Hall," Traditional Paint News, Vol 2 No 3 February 2008: 95-111.

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