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A NOMENCLATURE OF COLORS. 



in Edinburgh in 1821, 1 a copy of which the writer has 

 been able to procure through the kind attentions of a 

 correspondent in England. In the selection of plates 

 which accompany the present work, and in forming the 

 definitions to which they refer, the book just cited has 

 been carefully consulted, as have also various others bear- 

 ing to a greater or less degree upon the same subject. 

 It is found, however, that in Syme's " Nomenclature " the 

 colors have become so modified by time, that in very few 

 cases do they correspond with the tints they were intended 

 to represent. On this account it has not been possible, 

 except in a very few instances, to make the examples 

 given in the present volume agree with those of the book 

 in question, — which is much to be regretted, since as 

 great uniformity as possible is highly desirable in so im- 

 portant a matter. It has occurred to the writer, however, 

 that by careful selection from the fine artists' colors 

 manufactured by the most celebrated makers of the present 

 day (which are believed to be very far superior in purity, 

 as well as much more varied, than those made in Werner's 

 time), some of these may be made the standard by which 

 to fix definitely names for certain tints which otherwise 

 must remain more or less arbitrary. A basis for a fixed 

 nomenclature of colors may thus be obtained, — with this 

 additional advantage, that artists may thereby be furnished 

 a clew to the manufactured colors which are required for 



1 "Werner's | Nomenclature of Colors, | with additions | arranged so as 

 to render it highly useful to the | Arts and Sciences, | particularly | 

 Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Morbid Anatomy. | Annexed 

 to which are | examples selected from well-known objects | in the | 

 Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms, f = | By Patrick Syme, | 

 Flower-Painter, Edinburgh ; | Painter to the Wernerian and Caledonian | 

 Horticultural Societies. | Second Edition. | = Edinburgh : | Printed for 

 William Blackwood, Edinburgh ; | and T. Cadell, | Strand, London. | — | 

 1821. | Small 8vo., pp. 47, 13 pis. 



