Brown
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A short encyclopedia entry defining the colour brown as used by dyers and painters, a dusky reddish colour with several named shades such as Spanish-brown, sad-brown, tawney-brown, London brown and clove-brown. Most of the text covers Spanish-brown, an earth pigment used by painters as a priming colour for timber, for shading vermillion and for dark picture grounds. It notes that burning the pigment improves it for most uses. It ends with a cross-reference to the article on dyeing.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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