The laws of harmonious colouring : adapted to interior decorations, manufactures, and other useful purposes (1838)
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866 · London : W.S. Orr ; Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers · leaf 54
44 THE LAWS OF EXAMPLE III. EXAMPLE IV. … In artificial lights pure yellow apparently loses much of its intensity, because it cannot be easily distinguished from white. This occurs from all such lights being less or more of a yellow tone, and consequently dif- fusing this colour over all objects within their in- fluence ; white thereby…
Color · Aesthetics · Interior decoration · House painting
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