Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)
Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 207
colors are indispensable. If I give you my own palette, it is not that I wishto dictate to you what colors to employ, but simplyas a foundation for the remarks I am going to makeabout the colors generally used. First, with regardto white. White lead is the pigment all but universally used in… … COLOR. 193 and body ; and although I think it might be usedwith great advantage in skies, or for scumbHng,I dont think it can ever replace white lead for flesh-painting. We next come to Naples yellow. I am no chem-ist, and do not profess to tell you what Naplesyellow is made of, any more than I…
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