The rudiments of colours and of colouring : with the nature of pigments for the use of decorative artists, painters, etc. (1870)
Field, George, 1777?-1854, Mallet, Robert · London : Strahan · leaf 37
THEORY OF COLOURS. binary tints, purple, orange, and green, and thoso taken diametrically opposite are complementaries. … Fig. 5. So also tlie overlapping circumferentially of those in pairs produce the ternaries^ red-purple, red-orange, &c., &c., and these taken diametrically show their respective complementaries ; and these again overlapping, produce quaternary compound tints, and their diametrically opposite…
Color in art · Painting
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