Subordinates For Orange And Purple Being The Immediate Constituents

: ON THE TERTIARY, RUSSET.

of russet, and red being a component part of each of those colours, it

follows that red enters doubly into russet, while yellow and blue appear

but once therein. The proportions of its middle hue are eight blue, ten

red, and three yellow, of equal intensities. Thus composed, russet takes

the relations and powers of a subdued red; and many pigments and dyes of

the latter denomination are strictly of the class of russet colours. In

fact, nominal distinction of colours is only relative; the gradation

from hue to hue, as from tint to tint, and shade to shade, being of such

unlimited extent, that it is impossible to pronounce absolutely where

one hue, tint, or shade ends, and another begins.



The harmonizing, neutralizing, or contrasting colour of russet, is a



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