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The practice of drawing and painting landscape from nature, in water colours: exemplified in a series of instructions calculated to facilitate the progress of the learner; including the elements of perspective, their application in sketching from nature, and the explanation of various processes of colouring, for producing from the outline a finished picture; with observations on the study of nature, and various other matters relative to the arts (1820)

Nicholson, Francis, 1753-1844, Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781-1851 · London, printed for the author; and published by J. Booth and T. Clay · leaf 70

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urs will harmonize in their mixture, and preserve in their union the qualities of the component colours. Compound colours are those made by the mixture of any two of the primitives ; thus, red and blue produce purple, red and yellow, orange ; and blue with yellow, green. % Broken colours are those… … In the preceding diagram, the three primitives, red, blue, and yellow, being placed at the angles of the triangle, the result of their mixtures, and harmony or discordance, will appear by inspection. Thus, between red and yellow, orange is produced ; between red and blue, purple; and between blue…

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