TREATISE ON COLOURS AND PIGMENTS

AS USED BY ARTISTS.

AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PRACTICAL EDITION;

REVISED, REWRITTEN, AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.
BY

THOMAS W. SALTER, F.C.S.

Ars probat artificem.

LONDON:

WINSOR AND NEWTON, 38, RATHBONE PLACE,

Manufacturing Artists' Colourmen by Special Appointment to Her Majesty, and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

CONTENTS

PART I.

ON COLOURS AND COLOURING.

ChapterPage
I.—On Colouring [3]
II.—On the Relations and Harmonies of Colours[13]

PART II.

ON COLOURS AND PIGMENTS GENERALLY.

III.—On Classes of Colours[27]
IV.—On the Durability and Fugacity of Pigments[31]
V.—On the General Qualities of Pigments[46]

PART III.

ON COLOURS AND PIGMENTS INDIVIDUALLY.

VI.—On Colours and Pigments individually[57]
VII.—On the Neutral, White[62]
VIII.—On the Primary, Yellow[81]
IX.—On the Primary, Red[127]
X.—On the Primary, Blue [183]
XI.—On the Secondary, Orange [239]
XII.—On the Secondary, Green [263]
XIII.—On the Secondary, Purple [294]
XIV.—On the Tertiary, Citrine[310]
XV.—On the Tertiary, Russet [320]
XVI.—On the Tertiary, Olive[325]
XVII.—On the Semi-Neutral, Brown[334]
XVIII.—On the Semi-Neutral, Marrone [362]
XIX.—On the Semi-Neutral, Gray[372]
XX.—On the Neutral, Grey [381]
XXI.—On the Neutral, Black [387]
Addendum[414]
Index[417]

NOTICE.

Among the works consulted in this Edition are the following, from most of which extracts have been taken:

Bancroft's Philosophy of Colours.

Brande's Manual of Chemistry.

Chemical News.

Chevreul on Colour.

Fownes' Manual of Chemistry.

Gmelin's Handbook of Chemistry.

Handbooks on Art.

Liebig and Kopp's Annual Report of the Progress of Chemistry.

Mérimée's Painting in Oil.

Muspratt's Dictionary of Chemistry.

Normandy's Commercial Handbook of Chemical Analysis.

O'Neill's Chemistry of Calico Printing.

Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society.

Ruskin's Elements of Drawing.

Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry.