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 43
29 THEORY OF COLOURS. given tint or to imitate the colour of any natural object. Let a surface painted over with the purest yellow chromate of lead, for example, be looked at when placed in good clear daylight through a … Fig. 1,' prism, and it will be at once seen that the beam transmitted to the eye from it is not all yellow light — a partial spectrum will be formed at the eye as in Fig. 7 — and it will be seen that the co- loured surface reflects back, not only yellow mainly, but also some red, and probably some…
Color in art · Painting
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