Brown
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A short encyclopedia entry on the color brown from Rees's Cyclopedia. It lists the shades dyers distinguish (sad brown, London brown, clove brown, purple brown, walnut-tree brown) and names brown pigments such as bistre, brown ochre, Cologne earth, umber and brown pink. It also describes Spanish brown, a dull red earth pigment used by house-painters and colourmen and dug in parts of England.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
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- 1
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