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 74
56 THE LAWS OF with the blue, and produce harmony in coming dis- tinctly against the olive in its full warmth. Slate- colour is the next hue in the progress of blue down to black, which, from its peculiar nature, cannot be used in any but cool-toned arrangements. Examples 7 and 8 show these… … Blue is individually a pleasing, and, at the same time, a brilliant colour. It may, therefore, be used in any general arrangement of colours, as it is in the colouring of nature, in a much larger proportion than either of the other two primaries. Asa leading colour in decoration, it is extremely…
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