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A NOMENCLATURE OE COLOES. 



procured the finest prepared colors known to modern 

 art, including those of all the best manufacturers, — as 

 Winsor & Newton, George Eowney & Co., and Acker- 

 mann, of London, England ; Dr. Fr. Schoenfeld & Co., Dtis- 

 seldorf ; Chenal, Burgeois, Binant, and Lefranc, of Paris ; 

 Osborne of Philadelphia, and others. He has, besides, con- 

 sulted all the authorities accessible to him. 



In determining the standard for those arbitrary or 

 conventional tints and shades (as chestnut, hair-brown, 

 ash-color, lilac, etc.) whose names are taken from some 

 familiar substance or object, which itself varies so much 

 in color that the name without such fixed standard would 

 be practically valueless, care has been taken to select a 

 characteristic example. 



The selection of appropriate names for the colors de- 

 picted on the plates has been in some cases a matter of 

 considerable difficulty. With regard to certain ones it 

 may appear that the names adopted are not entirely satis- 

 factory; but, to forestall such criticism, it may be ex- 

 plained that the purpose of these plates is not to show the 

 color of the particular objects or substances which the names 

 suggest, but to provide for the colors which it has seemed de- 

 sirable to represent, appropriate, or at least approximately 

 appropriate, names. In other words, certain colors are 

 selected for illustration, for which names must be pro- 

 vided ; and when names that are exclusively pertinent 

 or otherwise entirely satisfactory are not at hand, they 

 must be looked up or invented. It should also be borne 

 in mind that almost any object or substance varies more 

 or less in color; and that therefore if the "orange," 

 " lemon," or " chestnut " of the plates does not match 

 exactly in color the particular orange, lemon, or chestnut 

 which one may compare it with, it may (or in fact does) 

 correspond with other specimens. It is, in fact, only in 



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