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Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School (1877)

Barnard, George, 1807-1890 · London : G. Routledge · leaf 138

An illustration from Drawing from nature : a series of progressive instructions in sketching, to which are appended lectures on art delivered at Rugby School, 1877, leaf 138 — he quantities of blue mixing with red. Purple is indeed a very indefinite colour with all, but with artists the word gray is more frequently used, as the tones they use are generally terriaries, com- posed of blue, red, and a little yellow, thus light red and blue make a gray light red, having a… … climate that sheds and reproduces its foliage twice a war. It bears scarlet berries, which look very pretty and tempting from their resemblance to the garden currant, but are injurious if eaten. It is called the Bittersweet because the root, which smells rather like a potato, on being chewed pro-…

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