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The house painter, or, Decorator's companion : being a complete treatise on the origin of colour, the laws of harmonious colouring, the manufacture of pigments, oils, and varnishes : and the art of house painting, graining, and marbling : to which is added, a history of the art in all ages (1841)

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From the union of the three primary colours in pairs, are produced threeothers, called secondaries, as shown in Fig. 2. The mixture of yellow andred gives orange; of red and blue, purple; and of blue and yellow, green ;the hue inclining to that one of its component colours, which happens toabound…

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