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Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)

Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 24

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CHAPTER II. THE PROPERTIES OF COLOURS. … interior decorations of the period were effected, we find the ruling combinations seldom included the primary colours except in the slightest possible degree. The “com- plementaries ” or mixed tints, founded upon them by the addition of white, were extensively used to break or vary them. Colours…

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