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A NOMENCLATURE OF COLOES. 



but the writer's actual experience is indicated by the 

 preferences noted above. Certain it is that he has 

 uniformly found Schoenfeld's Permanent Chinese White 

 ("gouache-farben"), put up in small wide-mouthed glass 

 bottles, superior in working and keeping qualities to 

 Winsor & Newton's preparation of the same name. It 

 should further be explained that for convenience English 

 names are given in the above list to Schoenfeld's colors, 

 and that the names by which they are labelled may be 

 found in the comparative vernacular synonymy (giving 

 English, French, and German names for each pigment) 

 on pages 38-55. 



Were the cochineal and aniline colors permanent, the 

 above list would have to be increased by the addition 

 of carmine, rosalack (light), mauve (aniline-violet), rose 

 Tyrien, and dark aniline-green; 1 since, with possibly the 

 exception of the first, it is impossible to imitate them by 

 combinations of other colors, so great are their purity and 

 intensity. Eose-carthame (safflorroth, or safflower-red), a 

 vegetable color, is incomparably purer than any variety 

 of vermilion or carmine ; in fact, it is the only red which 

 will, combined with yellow and blue respectively, produce 

 both a pure orange and purple. It has the reputation of 

 being evanescent, however, and therefore, like the aniline 

 and cochineal colors, should not be used where permanence 

 of color is an object, unless in cases where the pictures 

 thus colored are to be only occasionally, and for short 

 periods at a time, exposed to the light. 



1 The nearest approach to mauve that can he attained hy mixture of 

 permanent colors is that produced hy combination of permanent blue, or 

 Italian ultramarine, with madder-carmine or madder-lake. Carmine may 

 he quite closely imitated hy mixture of madder-carmine and scarlet-ver- 

 milion. Eose-carthame, rosalack, rose Tyrien, and dark aniline-green are 

 absolutely inimitable ; so, for that matter, is mauve. 



