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finished with the same two neutral tints, and afterwards washed 



glazed over with the colour 



the order described in I he 



diagram, beginning with red, then orange and yellow, in the 

 foreground, with blue and violet for the sky and distances By 



cen will prevail, 



th 



is proces 



? 



m 



the 



mi 



ddl 



e 



of th 



e picture gr 



partaking more of yellow near to, and more of blue as it recedes 

 from the eye; still bearing in mind that all objects will partita 



of their natural colour 



th 



red cloak must 



e 



<d, and a 



green tree must be green, till its distance, or the intervening 



vapour (called aerial perspective) takes away colour, 



mass of 



and blends it with the neutral tint 



As the Plates 



of women and child 



ny former work employed a great number 



colouring them, I expect to render 



ren in 



the 



process muc 



1 



easy in this present work, by the follow 



ing instructions given to the printer and colourer. 



<£ 



The Plates to be printed 



bluish-grey ink (th 



is 



the 



" neutral tint for the light and shade of the Landscape) ; the 

 " colourer to wash in the sky with blue or violet, &c. accord- 



" ing to each sketch ; also going over the distances wil h the same 



" colour; then wash the foregrounds and middle distances with 

 " red, orange, or yellow, copying the drawings; and when dry, 

 " wash over with blue, to produce the greens in the middle dis- 

 " tances : this being done as a dead colouring, a few touches 

 " with the hand of the master, and a harmonizing tint to soften 



" the whole, will produce all the e 

 " loured print." 



ffect 



pected from a co- 



