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

by George Field

O.

• Objectionable pigments, substitutes for, [96], [104], [114].
• Ochre, Black, [404] " Blue, [226].
• " Brown, [108].
• " Browns, [358].
• " Burnt Roman, [255].
• " Chrome, [267].
• " Green, [287].
• " Indian, [148].
• " Orange, [255].
• " Oxford, [109].
• " Purple, [290].
• " Red, [147].
• " Roman, [107].
• " Scarlet, [149].
• " Spanish, [255].
• " Spruce, [108].
• " Stone, [109].
• " Transparent Gold, [108].
• " Yellow, [106].
• Ochres and foul air, [359].
• " Red, [146]-[150].
• " Yellow, [105]-[109].
• Ocre de Ru, [108]
• Oil, coal-tar colours in, [247].
• " water-colour cakes in, [50].
• Oils, [33], [152], [194].
• Olive, [28].
• " analysis of, [330].
• " as a colour, [325].
• " contrast of, [325].
• " on the Tertiary, [325].
• Olive Pigments:—
• • Burnt Verdigris, [331].
  • Dewint's Green, [330].
  • Mixed Olive, [328].
  • Olive Green, [330].
  • Olive Lake, [331].
  • Olive Oxide of Chromium, [331].
  • Olive Rinman's Green, [332].
  • Olive Scheele's Green, [332].
  • Olive Schweinfurt Green, [332].
  • Olive Terre Verte, [333].
• Olive purples, [301].
• Olympian Green, [271].
• O'Neill, Mr., [159].
• Opacity of pigments, [48].
• Orange, [28], " as a colour, [239].
• " as an archeus, [240].
• " contrast of, [240].
• " discordant, [240].
• " on the Secondary, [239].
• Orange Pigments:—
• • Anotta, [255].
  • Antimony Orange, [256].
  • Bixine, [256].
  • Burnt Roman Ochre, [255].
  • Burnt Sienna, [243].
  • Burnt Terra di Sienna, [243].
  • Cadmium Orange, [36], [244].
  • Chinese Orange, [246].
  • Chromate of Mercury, [256].
  • Chrome Orange, [248].
  • Damonico, [257].
  • Gamboge Orange, [257].
  • Golden Sulphur of Antimony, [256].
  • Golden Yellow, [256].
  • Laque Minérale, [258].
  • Madder Orange, [258], [353].
  • Mars Orange, [248].
  • Mineral Orange, [248].
  • Mixed Orange, [249].
  • Monicon, [257].
  • Neutral Orange, [253].
  • Orange Chrome, [248].
  • Orange Chromate of Lead, [248].
  • Orange de Mars, [248].
  • Orange Lake, [258].
  • Orange Lead, [258].
  • Orange Ochre, [255].
  • Orange Orpiment, [258].
  • Penley's Neutral Orange, [253].
  • Realgar, [258].
  • Red Orpiment, [258].
  • Rocou, [255].
  • Spanish Ochre, [255].
  • Terra Orellana, [255].
  • Thallium Orange, [259].
  • Uranium Orange, [260].
  • Zinc Orange, [261].
• Orange Russet, [321].
• " Vermilion, [157].
• " " Field's, [158].
• Order of Colours:—
• • White, [62]-[80], [414].
  • Yellow, [81]-[126].
  • Red, [127]-[182].
  • Blue, [183]-[238].
  • Orange, [239]-[262].
  • Green, [263]-[293].
  • Purple, [294]-[309].
  • Citrine, [310]-[319].
  • Russet, [320]-[324].
  • Olive, [325]-[333].
  • Brown, [334]-[361].
  • Marrone, [362]-[371].
  • Gray, [372]-[380].
  • Grey, [381]-[386].
  • Black, [387]-[413].
• Organic pigments with lead chromates, [248].
• Orient Yellow, [42], [110].
• Original pigments, [35].
• " importance of, [240]-[242].
• Orpiment Yellow, [111]-[113].
• Outremer, [217].
• Outremer de Guimet, [209].
• Oxford Ochre, [109].
• Oxidation of pigments, [38].
• Oxide, Chrome, [267].
• " of Chromium, Green, [267].
• " " Opaque, [267].
• " " Transparent, [268].
• Oxychloride of Lead, [73].
• Oxygenated water, [69].
• Oyster-shell, white of, [80].

P.

• Paille de Mil, [170].
• Painting, siliceous, [212].
• Pale Cadmium, [90].
• " Chrome, [93].
• " Vermilion, [154].
• " washes of a pigment, [91].
• Palette, disinfectants of the, [359].
• " motto for the, [156].
• " setting the, [23].
• Palette-knife, avoidance of a steel, [39], [50], [90], [103].
• Palladium, [122].
• Paper Black, [407].
• " Smalt and Ultramarine in, [196].
• " to give a tone to, [253].
• Paris Blue, [192], [203].
• Paris, Musée Minéralogique at, [219].
• " Société d'Encouragement of, [210].
• Particular colour, predilection for a, [58], [59].
• Patent Green, [271].
• " Yellow, [121].
• Pattison's White, [73].
• Paul Veronese, [229], [335].
• Payne's Gray, [378].
• Peach Black, [407].
• Pearl White, [78].
• Peganum Harmala, [171].
• Penley, Mr. Aaron, [85]-[87], [158], [268], [270].
• Penley's Neutral Orange, [253].
• Perfect pigment, a, [46].
• Perkin, Mr. W., [162].
• Permanent Blue, [216].
• " pigments, [252], [278], [300], [315], [323], [329].
• " White, [65].
• Peroxidized pigments, [38].
• Persian berries, [312].
• " Green, [271].
• " lazur, [228].
• " Red, [148].
• Perspective, aerial, [22], [23].
• " linear, [22].
• " of colours, [22], [23].
• Persulphomolybdates, [171].
• Philocles, [7].
• Phosphine, [162].
• Photography, lamp black in, [401].
• " pigments generally in, [401].
• Pickle Green, [276].
• Picric acid, [162].
• Picture galleries, [363]-[365].
• Pictures and pigments, [292].
• Pigment and colour, [31].
• Pigments, action of fire and time on[31].
• " adulteration of, [70].
• " apt to vary, [126], [181].
• " beauty in, [46].
• " blending of, [37].
• " common, [359].
• " compound, [36].
• " drying of, [50].
• " fineness of texture in, [50].
• " grinding of, [37].
• " individual beauty of, [58].
• " innoxious, [53].
• " on the Durability and Fugacity of, [31].
• " on the General Qualities of, [46].
• " opacity and transparency of, [48].
• " past and present, [293].
• " rays from, [384].
• " truth of hue in, [47].
• " vehicles with, [48]-[53].
• " working well, [49].
• Pink, Brown, [313].
• " Dutch, [100].
• " English, [100].
• " Italian, [100].
• " Madder, [144].
• " Rose, [173].
• " Saucers, [174].
• Pitch, Jew's, [337].
• " Mineral, [337].
• Pittacal, [234].
• Platinum Blue, [233].
• " Yellow, [121].
• Playfair, Dr. Lyon, [355].
• Pliny, [7], [153], [198], [218], [295], [338].
• Plumbago, [393].
• Polygnotus, [9].
• Pompeii, [105], [229].
• Porcelain, blue for, [235].
• " green for, [267].
• Poussin, [11], [316].
• Powder Blue, [196].
• Power of pigments, individual, [59].
• Powers of colours, [82].
• Practice of Sir J. Reynolds, [37].
• Precipitate, Red, [173].
• Prevention and cure, [412].
• Price, Dr. D. S., [69].
• Primary colours, [28].
• Principles of practice, [35].
• Process, Autotype, [401].
• Protoxide, pigments in the state of, [37].
• Proust, M., [396].
• Prout, Samuel, [346].
• Prout's Brown, Liquid, [345].
• Prussian Black, [404], [408].
• " Copper, [408].
• Prussian Blue, [203].
• " adulteration of, [203].
• " character of, [237], [278], [301].
• " Cobalt, [227].
• " manufacture of, [203].
• " Native, [207], [226].
• " want of a permanent, [189].
• " with alkalies, [206].
• Prussian Brown, [348].
• " " French, [255].
• " Greens, [281], [282].
• " Red, [149].
• Prussiate of Copper, [323].
• " Iron, [203].
• Pure Scarlet, [150].
• " Ultramarine, [216].
• Purple, [28].
• " as a colour, [295].
• " as a pigment, [297].
• " Black, [369], [408].
• " Brown, [359].
• " contrast of, [294], [297].
• " Lake, [137].
• " on the Secondary, [294].
• Purple Pigments:—
• • Archil Purple, [303].
  • Bismuth Purple, [304].
  • Burnt Carmine, [298].
  • Burnt Lake, [298].
  • Burnt Madder, [305].
  • Cassius's Purple Precipitate, [306].
  • Cobalt Purples, [305].
  • Field's Purple, [301].
  • Gold Purple, [306].
  • Indian Purple, [298].
  • Mars Violet, [290].
  • Mauve, [163].
  • Mineral Purple, [290].
  • Mixed Purple, [290].
  • Prussian Purple, [307].
  • Purple Madder, [301].
  • Purple Ochre, [290].
  • Purple of Cassius, [306].
  • Purple Rubiate, [301].
  • Sandal Wood Purple, [307].
  • Solid French Purple, [304].
  • Tin Violet, [308].
  • Violet Carmine, [302].
  • Violet de Mars, [290].
• Purple, pure, [300].
• " Tyrian, [295], [296].
• Purpurates, [170].
• Purree, [98].

Q.

• Qualities of Pigments, on the General, [46].
• Queen's Yellow, [123].
• Quercitron Lake, [100], [312].
• " Yellow, [100].
• Quinine Green, [289].

R.

• Ramnus infectorius, [315].
• Raphael, [8], [9].
• Rare Metals, [172].
• Raw Sienna, [113].
• " Umber, [315].
• Rays from pigments, [384].
• Real Ultramarine, [216].
• Realgar, [258].
• Reboulleau's Blue, [230].
• Red, [28].
• " as a colour, [128].
• " contrasts of, [128], [129].
• " discordant, [129].
• " Marrone, [368].
• " on the Primary, [127].
• " Orpiment, [258].
• Red Pigments:—
• • Almagra, [147].
  • Antimony Red, [159].
  • Armenian Bole, [147].
  • Bloodstone, [147].
  • Brown Red, [147].
  • Cadmium Red, [130].
  • Carmine, [133]-[135].
  • Carmine Vermilion, [156].
  • Carnagione, [149].
  • Chica Red, [159].
  • Chinese Lake, [137].
  • Chinese Rouge, [174].
  • Chinese Vermilion, [156].
  • Coal-Tar Colours, [160].
  • Cobalt Reds, [164].
  • Cochineal Lakes, [131]-[137].
  • Copper Reds, [164].
  • Crimson Lake, [135].
  • Deep Vermilion, [154].
  • Dragon's Blood, [137].
  • English Red, [149].
  • English Vermilion, [146].
  • Extract of Vermilion, [157].
  • Ferrate of Baryta, [165].
  • Field's Carmine, [142].
  • Field's Lakes, [139]-[145].
  • Field's Orange Vermilion, [158].
  • Florentine Lake, [137].
  • Gold Reds, [166].
  • Hamburgh Lake, [137].
  • Indian Lake, [138].
  • Indian Ochre, [146].
  • Indian Red, [148].
  • Iodine Pink, [166].
  • Iodine Scarlet, [150].
  • Kermes Lake, [167].
  • Lac Lake, [138].
  • Lawson's Red, [168].
  • Light Red, [149].
  • Liquid Madder Lake, [145].
  • Liquid Rubiate, [145].
  • Madder Carmine, [142].
  • Madder Lake, [144].
  • Madder Lakes, [139]-[145].
  • Magenta, [160].
  • Majolica, [146].
  • Manganese Red, [168].
  • Mars Red, [145].
  • Mineral Kermes, [159].
  • Minium, [151].
  • Murexide, [169].
  • Ochres, [146]-[150].
  • Orange Vermilion, [157].
  • Paille de Mil, [170].
  • Pale Vermilion, [154].
  • Peganum Harmala, [171].
  • Persian Red, [148].
  • Persulphomolybdates, [171].
  • Pink Madder, [144].
  • Pink Saucers, [174].
  • Prussian Red, [149].
  • Pure Scarlet, [150].
  • Purple Lake, [137].
  • Red Chalk, [172].
  • Red Chrome, [151].
  • Red Lead, [151].
  • Red Ochre, [147].
  • Red Precipitate, [173].
  • Redding, [146].
  • Roman Lake, [137].
  • Rose Madder, [143].
  • Rose Pink, [173].
  • Rose Rubiate, [145].
  • Rouge, [173].
  • Rouge de Mars, [145].
  • Rubric Lakes, [139]-[145].
  • Rufigallic Red, [174].
  • Sandal Red, [175].
  • Saturnine Red, [151].
  • Scarlet Chrome, [151].
  • Scarlet Lake, [136].
  • Scarlet Ochre, [149].
  • Scarlet Vermilion, [156].
  • Sil Atticum, [147].
  • Silver Red, [176].
  • Sinoper, [151].
  • Sorgho Red, [176].
  • Spanish Brown, [146].
  • Spanish Red, [150].
  • Terra Puzzoli, [149].
  • Terra Sinopica, [147].
  • Thallium Red, [177].
  • Tin Pink, [177].
  • Ultramarine Red, [178].
  • Uranium Red, [179].
  • Venetian Lake, [137].
  • Venetian Red, [149].
  • Vermilion, [154].
  • Vermilions, [153]-[158].
  • Wongshy Red, [180].
• Reds, ancient, [5].
• Relations of colour, [13]-[24].
• Relative durability of colour, [32].
• Rembrandt, [11], [345].
• Revelation, Book of, [217].
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [10], [35], [37], [158], [374], [410].
• Rinman's Green, [285].
• " Olive, [332].
• Rocou, [255].
• Roman Green, [290].
• " Lake, [137].
• " Ochre, [107].
• " " Burnt, [255].
• " painters and painting, [7], [8], [10], [391].
• " Sepia, [351].
• " White, [74].
• Romans, the, [153], [295].
• Romulus, [295].
• Rosaniline, [162].
• Rose, the, [327].
• Rousseau, M. E., [414].
• Rowbotham, Messrs., [144].
• Royal Academy at Burlington House, [365].
• " Blue, [196].
• Rubens, [11], [37], [64], [157], [283], [334], [374].
• " Brown, [359].
• " Madder, [321].
• Rubia tinctorum, [139].
• Rubiate, Purple, [301].
• Rue, Dr. Warren de la, [132].
• Ruskin, Mr., [13].
• Russet, [28].
• " analysis of, [330].
• " as a colour, [320].
• " contrast of, [321].
• " on the Tertiary, [320].
• Russet Pigments:—
• • Field's Russet, [321].
  • Mixed Russet, [322].
  • Orange Russet, [321].
  • Prussiate of Copper, [323].
  • Rubens' Madder, [321].
  • Russet Rubiate, [321].

S.

• Sacc, M., [414].
• Safflower, [174].
• Samuel Prout, [346].
• Sandal Red, [175].
• " Wood Purple, [307].
• Sandarac, [259].
• Sap Green, [282].
• Satin White, [80].
• Saturnine Red, [151].
• Saucers, Pink, [174].
• Saunders Blue, [230].
• Saxon Blue, [189].
• " Green, [271].
• " Smalts, [215].
• Scarlet Chrome, [151].
• " Iodine, [150].
• " Lake, [136].
• " Ochre, [149].
• " Pure, [150].
• " transparent, a, reward for, [130].
• " " substitute for, [130].
• " Vermilion, [156].
• Scheele's Green, [272].
• " Olive, [332].
• Schools of painting, [8]-[10], [37].
• Schunck, Dr., [140].
• Schweinfurt Blue, [230].
• " Green, [271].
• " " Olive, [332].
• Scoffern, Dr., [357].
• Sea, the Dead, [337].
• " transparency of the, [269].
• Secondary colours, [28].
• " pigments, [242].
• Semi-Neutral colours, [29].
• " the term, [334].
• Semi-stability, on, [308].
• Semi-stable pigments, [298], [313].
• Sepia, [348], [397].
• " Liquid, [348].
• " Roman, [350].
• " Warm, [351].
• Shades, [21].
• Shadow, colour of, [27], [30].
• Siccatives, [51]-[53].
• Sienna, Burnt, [243].
• " Raw, [113].
• " Terra di, [113].
• Sil Atticum, [147].
• Silicate of Baryta, [290].
• Siliceous painting, Ultramarine in, [212].
• Silver Red, [176].
• " White, [71].
• Sinoper, [151].
• Slate Clays, [380].
• " powdered, [380].
• Smalt, [195]-[198].
• " adulteration of, [198].
• " Copper, [229].
• Smalt, grinding of, [197].
• " in mural decoration, [198].
• " in paper, [196].
• " Iron, [218].
• Soap and alkali in brushes, [52].
• Société d'Encouragement of Paris, [210].
• Society of Arts, [130].
• Soda flame, [191].
• Solid French Purple, [304].
• Sorgho Red, [176].
• Sources of pigments, [60].
• South America, chica from, [368].
• Spanish Black, [409].
• " Brown, [146].
• " Ochre, [255].
• " Red, [150].
• " Schools, [8].
• " White, [80].
• Spence, Mr., [68].
• Spruce Ochre, [108].
• St. Petersburg, palace at, [219].
• Starch, [66].
• Stil de Grain, Brown, [312].
• Stippling, [315].
• Stone, Armenian, [228].
• " lapis lazuli, [217], [219].
• " malachite, [274].
• " Ochre, [109].
• Strontian Yellow, [113].
• Sulphate of Lead, [72].
• " zinc, [51].
• Sulphide of cadmium, thallium in, [260].
• Sulphur and ochres, [359].
• Sulphuretted hydrogen, pigments affected by, [39], [67], [69], [73], [78], [79], [93], [103], [120], [151], [152], [229], [248], [275], [276].
• Susa, [296].
• Swedish Green, [272].
• Synonyms, value of, [145].