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The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours. Illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts (1871)

Barnard, George, 1807-1890 · London : George Routledge & Sons · leaf 26

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rface, its apparent whiteness will bediminished, because less light is reflected from it; diminish the light stillmore, it becomes gray; and with no light incident upon its surface, itappears black, for it sends no rays to the eye. To illustrate this in anothermanner; suppose the illuminated… … LET0I1T0N, BROTHERS. PRISMATIC COLOURS. 13 light being there extinguished, and consequently much less reflected tothe eye than before. If the surface be that of charcoal alone, then nearlyall the incident light is extinguished, and we have, as before, black. But,in all these cases of extinction of…

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