A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 327

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Chap. CCCXXVII.—What Greens will appear most of a blueish Cast.

Those greens will appear to approach nearest to blue which are of the darkest shade when remote. This is proved by the seventh proposition[1], which says, that blue is composed of black and white seen at a great distance.

  1. ↑ Vide chap. ccxcii. ccciii.

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