Field's Chromatography / or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists

by George Field

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[INDEX.]

A.

• Acacia catechu, [354].
• Academy, Royal, at Burlington House, [365].
• Acetate of lead, as a siccative, [51].
• " improper use of, [52].
• Adulteration, [70].
• "of Anotta, [256].
• " Artificial Ultramarine, [214].
• " Black Lead, [394].
• " Cadmium Yellow, [88].
• " Carmine, [134].
• " Chrome Yellow, [94].
• " Cochineal, [132].
• " Genuine Ultramarine, [214].
• " Indigo, [202].
• " Ivory Black, [397].
• " Madder, [140].
• " Madder Carmine, [142].
• " Mars Yellow, [102].
• " Prussian Blue, [203].
• " Red Lead, [152].
• " Smalt, [198].
• " Verdigris, [276].
• " Vermilion, [156].
• " Veronese Green, [268].
• " White Lead, [70], [74], [75].
• " Yellow and Orange Orpiment, [113], [259].
• " Zinc White, [77].
• Advancing and retiring colours, [186]-[188].
• Advice, Cennini's, [411].
• Aerial perspective, [22].
• African cochineal, [170].
• " green, [271].
• Air and light, action of, on pigments, [39].
• Air effect, want of, [378].
• Albumen, [50].
• Alchemy, [259].
• Alexander the Great, [296].
• " Veronese, [284].
• Alkanet, [302].
• Almagra, [147].
• Almond Black, [407].
• American artist, an, [347].
• Analysis of Brown, [377].
• " Citrine, [329].
• " Gray, [377].
• " Marrone, [377].
• " Olive, [330].
• " Russet, [330].
• Anchusa tinctoria, [302].
• Ancients, colouring of the, [3].
• " colours of the, [5], [6], [218].
• Aniline, [162].
• " colours, [162].
• " " cakes of, [163].
• " " in oil, [247].
• Animal Æthiops, [348].
• " charcoal, [397]-[399].
• " jelly, [50].
• Anotta, [255].
• Antimony, Golden Sulphur of, [256].
• " Orange, [256].
• " Red, [159].
• " White, [79].
• " Yellow, [105].
• Antipathies of pigments, [193].
• Antwerp Blue, [207].
• " Brown, [339].
• Apelles, [7], [293].
• Archil, [303].
• " Purple, [303].
• Arethas, [217].
• Armenian blue, [5], [217], [228].
• " bole, [147].
• " stone, [228].
• Arsenical pigments, [273].
• Arsenic green, substitutes for, [288], [290].
• " white, [79].
• " yellow, [116].
• Art and Science, [238], [412].
• Artificial Ultramarine, [209]-[216].
• " acid pigments with, [214].
• " adulteration of, [215].
• " green in, [211].
• " gum with, [214].
• Artificial Ultramarine, in siliceous painting, [212].
• " origin of, [209].
• " prize for, [209].
• " test for, [212].
• Artists and painters, [182].
• Arts, Society of, [130].
• Ash, Ultramarine, [379].
• Ashes, Blue, [228].
• Asphaltic Lake, the, [337].
• Asphaltum and Asphalt, [337].
• " Liquid, [339].
• Association of Science, British, [357].
• Assyrians, colouring and colours of, [6].
• Augustus Cæsar, [295].
• Aureolin, [42], [47], [83]-[87].
• " Chemical News on, [84].
• " in admixture, [86].
• " Mr. Aaron Penley on, [85].
• " the purest yellow, [84], [384].
• Aurine, [162].
• Autotype process, the, [401].
• Avignon, berries of, [312].
• Axiom, a wholesome, [201].
• Axioms for compounding, [250].
• Azuline, [162].
• Azure, [192], [196], [217].

B.

• Barff, Mr., [212].
• Barium and Bismuth chrome greens, [280].
• Barthe and Laurent, MM., [235].
• Bartholomew, Mr., [143].
• Baryta, Ferrate of, [165].
• " Silicate of, [290].
• Barytic White, [65].
• Beauty in Pigments, [46].
• Beeswax, [50].
• Berries, French, Persian, and Turkey, [212].
• Berzelius, [169].
• Bice, Green, [187].
• Bignonia chica, [367].
• Bismuth Purple, [304].
• Bixa Orellana, [255].
• Bixine, [256].
• Black, [27].
• " ancient, [5].
• " as a colour, [387], [391].
• " as a pigment, [389].
• " colours with, [392].
• " on the Neutral, [387].
• Black Pigments:—
• • Almond Black, [407].
  • Beggars' Ultramarine, [409].
  • Black Chalk, [404].
  • Black Lead, [382], [393].
  • Black Ochre, [404].
  • Blue Black, [394].
  • Bone Black, [405].
  • British Ink, [395].
  • Charcoal Black, [394].
  • Chinese Ink, [395].
  • Coffee Black, [405].
  • Copper Prussian Black, [408].
  • Cork Black, [409].
  • Earth Black, [404].
  • Frankfort Black, [406].
  • Galena, [394].
  • Graphite, [393].
  • Indian Ink, [395].
  • Ivory Black, [397].
  • Lamp Black, [399].
  • Liege Black, [394].
  • Manganese Black, [406].
  • Mineral Black, [407].
  • Mixed Black, [402].
  • Paper Black, [407].
  • Peach Black, [407].
  • Plumbago, [393].
  • Prussian Black, [404], [408].
  • Purple Black, [408].
  • Spanish Black, [409].
  • Vine Black, [394].
• Bladder Green, [282].
• Blanc d'Argent, [71].
• Blending of pigments, [37].
• Blood, Dragon's, [137].
• Bloodstone, [147].
• Blue, [28].
• " ancient, [5], [217].
• " Armenian, [5], [217].
• " as a colour, [183].
• " contrast of, [185], [188].
• " discordant, [185].
• " on the Primary, [183].
• Blue Pigments:—
• • Antwerp Blue, [207].
  • Artificial Ultramarines, [209]-[216].
  • Azure, [192], [217].
  • Basic Prussian Blue, [207].
  • Berlin Blue, [203], [207].
  • Bice, [228].
  • Bleu de Garance, [209].
  • Blue Ashes, [228].
  • Blue Bice, [228].
  • Blue Carmine, [228].
  • Blue Ochre, [226], [380].
  • Blue Sand, [196].
  • Blue Verditer, [228].
  • Brilliant Ultramarine, [215].
  • Cerulian Blue, or Cœruleum, [190].
  • Cobalt Blue, [192].
  • Cobalt Blues, [189]-[199].
  • Cobalt Prussian Blue, [227].
  • Cobalt Ultramarine, [192].
  • Coëlin, [190].
  • Copper Blues, [227]-[230].
  • Cotton Seed Blue, [230].
  • Cyanine, [198].
  • Dumont's Blue, [196].
  • Dutch Ultramarine, [189].
  • Enamel Blue, [189].
  • Egyptian Blue, [229].
  • Factitious Ultramarine, [215].
  • Ferricyanide of Iron, [208].
  • Ferrocyanide of Iron, [203].
  • French Blue, [215].
  • French Ultramarine, [215].
  • Genuine Ultramarine, [216]-[225].
  • Gmelin's German Ultramarine, [209].
  • Gold Blue, [231].
  • Guimet's Ultramarine, [209].
  • Haerlem Blue, [207].
  • Hungary Blue, [189].
  • Indian Blue, [199].
  • Indicum, [199].
  • Indigo, [199].
  • Intense Blue, [202].
  • Iodine Blue, [231].
  • Iridium Blue, [232].
  • Iris, [228].
  • Lazuline, [217].
  • Lazulite Blue, [217].
  • Lazurstein, [217].
  • Leitch's Blue, [199].
  • Leithner's Blue, [189].
  • Manganese Blue, [232].
  • Mineral Blue, [207].
  • Mountain Blue, [228].
  • Native Prussian Blue, [207].
  • Native Ultramarine, [216].
  • Natural Ultramarine, [216].
  • New Blue, [216].
  • Outremer, [217].
  • Outremer de Guimet, [209].
  • Paris Blue, [192], [203].
  • Permanent Blue, [216].
  • Platinum Blue, [233].
  • Powder Blue, [196].
  • Prussian Blue, [203].
  • Prussiate of Iron, [203].
  • Pure Ultramarine, [217].
  • Real Ultramarine, [216].
  • Reboulleau's Blue, [230].
  • Royal Blue, [196].
  • Saunders' Blue, [230].
  • Saxon Blue, [189].
  • Schweinfurt Blue, [230].
  • Smalt, [195]-[198].
  • Terre Bleu, [228].
  • Thénard's Blue, [192].
  • True Ultramarine, [216].
  • Tungsten Blue, [233].
  • Turnbull's Blue, [208].
  • Ultramarines, [209]-[225].
  • Verditer, [228].
  • Vienna Blue, [192].
  • Wood-Tar Blue, [233].
  • Zaffre, [189].
  • Zinc-Cobalt Blue, [235].
• Body White, [72].
• Bole, Armenian, [147].
• Borrowdale, [393].
• Bouvier, [153], [345], [347], [355], [405], [407], [409].
• Box, the painter's, [60].
• Bradley, Mr., [246].
• British School, [9].
• Broken colours, [16].
• Bronze, [279].
• Brown, [28].
• " analysis of, [377].
• " as a colour, [335].
• " Citrine, [317].
• " contrast of, [337].
• " Liquid, Prout's, [345].
• " Madder, [305].
• " Mars, [313].
• " on the Semi-Neutral, [334].
• Brown Pigments:—
• • Animal Æthiops, [348].
  • Antwerp Brown, [339].
  • Asphaltum or Asphalt, [337].
  • Bistre, [340].
  • Bitumen, [339].
  • Bitumen of Judea, [337].
  • Bone Brown, [340].
  • Burnt Umber, [341].
  • Cadmium Brown, [353].
  • Caledonian Brown, [341].
  • Campania Brown, [352].
  • Cappah Brown, [342].
  • Cassel Earth, [343].
  • Castle Earth, [343].
  • Catechu Browns, [374].
  • Chalon's Brown, [344].
  • Chestnut Brown, [357].
  • Chrome Browns, [355].
  • Cologne Earth, [344].
  • Copper Brown, [355].
  • Cory's Madder or Yellow Madder, [353].
  • Cullen's Earth, [344].
  • Egyptian Brown, [347].
  • Euchrome, [342].
  • French Prussian Brown, [355].
  • Gambogiate of Iron, [357].
  • Hypocastanum, [357].
  • Iron Browns, [357].
  • Ivory Brown, [340].
  • Jew's Pitch, [337].
  • Leitch's Brown, [346].
  • Manganese Brown, [358].
  • Mineral Brown, [342].
  • Mineral Pitch, [337].
  • Mixed Brown, [346].
  • Mummy, [347].
  • Mummy Brown, [347].
  • Nickel Brown, [358].
  • Ochre Browns, [358].
  • Prussian Brown, [348].
  • Purple Brown, [359].
  • Roman Sepia, [351].
  • Rubens' Brown, [359].
  • Sepia, [348].
  • Terre de Cassel, [343].
  • Uranium Brown, [360].
  • Vandyke Brown, [351].
  • Verona Brown, [353].
  • Warm Sepia, [350].
  • Yellow Madder, [353].
  • Zinc Brown, [360].
• Brown Pink, [312].
• " Red, [147].
• " Spanish, [146].
• " Stil de Grain, [312].
• Browns, abundance of, [336], [361].
• Brun de Mars, [313].
• Brunswick Green, [271], [279].
• Brushes, soap and alkali in, [52].
• Burlington House, Royal Academy at, [365].
• Burnt Carmine, [298].
• " Lake, [298].
• " Madder, [305].
• " Orpiment, [259].
• " Roman Ochre, [255].
• " Sienna, [243].
• " Terra di Sienna, [243].
• " Verdigris, [331].

C.

• Cadmium Brown, [353].
• " Orange, [36], [42], [244].
• " Red, [42], [130].
• " White, [78].
• " Yellow, [87], [92].
• " " adulteration of, [88].
• " " manufacture of, [92].
• " " when fugacious, [92].
• " " with White Lead, [89].
• Caledonian Brown, [341].
• Campania Brown, [352].
• Camphor, [396].
• Cappah or Cappagh Brown, [342].
• Carajuru, [367].
• Carbolic acid, [162].
• Carbon, [393].
• Carmichael, Mr., [348].
• Carmine, [133], [135].
• " adulteration of, [134].
• " Blue, [225].
• " Burnt, [298].
• " Field's, [142].
• Carmine, Madder, [142].
• " manufacture of, [134].
• " Vermilion, [156].
• " Violet, [302].
• " with Indian Yellow, [98].
• " " White Lead, [134].
• Carnac, ruins at, [4].
• Carnagione, [149].
• Carthamus, [174].
• Cartoons at Hampton Court, [10].
• Cassel Earth, [343].
• " Green, [288].
• " Terre de, [343].
• " Yellow, [121].
• Cassius, Purple of, [306].
• Cassius's Purple Precipitate, [306].
• Castle Earth, [343].
• Catechu Browns, [354].
• Celandine, [96].
• Cendres Bleues, [230].
• Cennini, advice of, [411].
• Cerulian Blue or Cœruleum, [190].
• Ceruse, [74].
• Chalk, Black, [404].
• " Green, [173].
• " Red, [172].
• " White, [79].
• Chalon's Brown, [344].
• Chaptal, Count, [105], [229].
• Charcoal, animal, [397], [399].
• " Black, [394].
• " vegetal, [398], [406].
• Charles I., [220].
• Charred blacks, [390], [395], [406].
• Cheese, anotta in, [256].
• Chemical News, extract from, [84].
• Chestnut Brown, [357].
• Chevreul, M., [173], [191], [205], [364].
• Chiaroscuro, [15].
• Chica d'Andiguez, [160].
• " Marrone, [367].
• " Red, [159].
• China, Mandarins of, [219].
• " White, [80].
• Chinese Ink, [395].
• " Lake, [137].
• " Orange, [246].
• " Rouge, [174].
• " Vermilion, [156].
• " White, [75].
• " Yellow, [111].
• Chinoline, [162].
• Chocolate Lead, [368].
• Chromate of Mercury, [256].
• Chromates of lead, organic pigments with, [248], [280].
• Chrome Arseniate, [284].
• " Browns, [355].
• " Green, True, [267].
• " Greens, [279]-[281].
• " Ochre, [267].
• Chrome Orange, [248].
• " Oxide, [267].
• " Oxides, [266]-[271].
• " Red, [151].
• " Scarlet, [151].
• " Yellows, [93]-[95].
• " " adulteration of, [94].
• Chromium, Green Oxide of, [267].
• " Opaque Oxide of, [267].
• " Oxide of, [267].
• " Transparent Oxide of, [268].
• Church, Professor, [165].
• Cicero, [296].
• Cinnabar, [153].
• " Green, [280].
• Citrine, [28].
• " analysis of, [329].
• " as a colour, [310].
• " contrast of, [311].
• " on the Tertiary, [310].
• Citrine Pigments:—
• • Brown Pink, [312].
  • Brown Stil de Grain, [312].
  • Brun de Mars, [313].
  • Cassia Fistula, [316].
  • Citrine Brown, [317].
  • Citrine Lake, [312].
  • Mars Brown, [313].
  • Mixed Citrine, [314].
  • Quercitron Lake, [312].
  • Raw Umber, [315].
  • Umber, [315].
• Citron Yellow, [95].
• Classes of Colours, on, [27]-[30].
• Classified Pigments:—
• • Black, [409].
  • Blue, [236].
  • Brown, [361].
  • Citrine, [319].
  • Gray, [380].
  • Green, [291].
  • Grey, [386].
  • Marrone, [371].
  • Olive, [333].
  • Orange, [261].
  • Purple, [308].
  • Red, [181].
  • Russet, [324].
  • White, [80].
  • Yellow, [125].
• Claude, [345].
• Cleanliness in painting, [53].
• Coal-Tar Colours, [160]-[164], [247].
• " cakes of, [163].
• " in oil, [247].
• Cobalt Blue, [192].
• chalkiness in, [195].
• manufacture of, [192].
• " Blues, [189]-[199].
• " Green, [285].
• " Marrone, [368].
• " Prussian Blue, [227].
• " " Green, [282].
• " Purples, [305].
• " Ultramarine, [192].
• Coccus "(Abies nigra), [168].
• " cacti, [131].
• " ficus, [138].
• " ilicis, [153], [167].
• Cochineal, [132].
• " adulteration of, [132].
• " Dr. Warren de la Rue on, [132].
• " lake, with Vermilion, [136].
• " Lakes, [131]-[137].
• Coëlin, [190].
• Cœruleum, [190], [198], [217], [229].
• Coffee Black, [405].
• " Brown, [405].
• Cohesion and colour, [197], [208].
• " durability, [197], [208].
• Cologne Earth, [344].
• " Yellow, [94].
• Colour and neutrality, [375].
• " latent, [58].
• " of extreme light objects, [21].
• " of shadow, [21].
• " on the Relations and Harmony of, [13].
• Coloured rays, mixture of, [384].
• Colouring, ancient, [3]-[7].
• " false, [20].
• " importance of, [10]-[12].
• " on, [3].
• " vicious, [11]-[21].
• Colours, ancient, [5], [6], [218].
• " and Pigments Individually, on, [57].
• " broken, [16].
• " classes of:—
• " " Neutral, [27].
• " " Primary, [28].
• " " Secondary, [28].
• " " Semi-Neutral, [29].
• " " Tertiary, [28].
• " complementary, [391].
• " discordant, [17], [185].
• " entire, [28].
• " extreme, [28].
• " fugacity of ancient, [6].
• " held in check, [106].
• " hot and cold, [20].
• " imaginary, [115].
• " individual beauty of, [57].
• " light and dark, [30].
• " material, mixture of, [384].
• " mixture and compounding of, [17]-[19].
• " not obtainable, [114].
• " not pigments, [305].
• " perspective of, [22].
• Colours, retiring or advancing, [186]-[188].
• " superfluous, [124].
• " unfitted for pigments, [115], [180].
• " vitrified, [33], [197].
• " with black, [27], [392].
• " "colours, [27].
• " "grey, [382].
• " "white, [27], [63].
• Common pigments, [359].
• Compounding colours, on, [242]-[252], [277].
• Compound pigments, [36].
• Constable, [265].
• Constantinople, [7].
• Constant White, [65].
• " free acid in, [66].
• Contrast of colour and neutrality, [15].
• " gradations and extremes, [19].
• " hues, [13]-[15].
• " shades, [15].
• " warmth and coolness, [15].
• Copper Blues, [227]-[230].
• " Borate, [285].
• " Brown, [355].
• " Chrome, [286].
• " Greens, [271]-[276].
• " Prussian Black, [408].
• " Prussiate of, [323].
• " Reds, [164].
• " Smalt, [220].
• " Stannate, [286].
• " Yellow, [116].
• Cork Black, [409].
• Correggio, [8], [335].
• Cory's Madder or Yellow Madder, [119], [353].
• Cotton Seed Blue, [230].
• Cremnitz or Crems White, [72].
• Crimson Lake, [135].
• Crookes, Mr., [260].
• Crowding of pictures, [364].
• Cudbear, [303].
• Cullen's Earth, [344].
• Cuttle Fish, [348].
• Cuyp, [136].
• Cyanine, [198].
• Cyanus, [198], [217].

D.

• Damonico, [257].
• Darkening of mineral colours, [284].
• Davy, Sir H., [229].
• Dead Sea, the, [337].
• Deep Cadmium, [87].
• " Chrome, [93].
• " Vermilion, [154].
• " Deoxidation of pigments, [38].
• Detractors of modern pigments, [43]-[45].
• Dewint's Green, [330].
• Diagram, [89].
• Diesbach, M.[203].
• Dilution of colour, [34].
• Di Palito, [109].
• Direct and diffused light, [391].
• Discord of colours, [17], [185].
• Disinfectants of the palette, [359].
• Distance, law about, [188].
• Distilled Verdigris, [276].
• Distinction of colours, [318], [320].
• Dominichino, [8].
• Dragon's Blood, [137].
• " with White Lead, [138].
• Drop Gum, [96].
• Drying of pigments, [50].
• " oils, lead in, [121].
• Duffield, Mrs., [144].
• Dumas, M., [234], [414].
• Dumont's Blue, [196].
• Durability of pigments, [31]-[45], [46].
• Dussance, Professor H., [175].
• Dutch Pink, [100].
• " Schools, [8].
• " the, [156], [200].
• " Ultramarine, [189].
• " White, [74].
• Dyeing, brown for, [318].
• " orange for, [257].
• Dyes and pigments, [169].