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Title: The Use of a Box of Colours
In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and
Shade, and Colour.

Author: Harry Willson

Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32681]

Language: English

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A

PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON

COMPOSITION, LIGHT AND SHADE,

AND COLOUR.

PRINTED BY WILLIAM WILCOCKSON, ROLLS BUILDINGS, FETTER LANE.

[Illustration]

THE USE

OF A

BOX OF COLOURS,

IN A

Practical Demonstration on

COMPOSITION, LIGHT AND SHADE,

AND COLOUR.

Illustrated by Plain and Coloured Examples.

BY

HARRY WILLSON,

AUTHOR OF FUGITIVE SKETCHES IN ROME, VENICE, ETC.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED BY TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET,
FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
CHARLES SMITH, 34, MARYLEBONE STREET, PICCADILLY.
M.DCCC.XLII.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

PREFACE.

BETWEEN those works on Art which are too costly, or too old to be useful
now,--those, which are too comprehensive or prolix--and those, which
teach nothing,--it was suggested to the Author, that an investigation
and simple arrangement of the Principles on which he has hitherto
successfully taught, with useful results, would form a _Practical_
Treatise, calculated to abridge the labours and shorten the road of the
Student, by its available suggestions.

CONTENTS.

Page

PREFATORY REMARKS;--COMPOSITION, APPLIED TO PAINTING 1

OF ANGULAR COMPOSITION 9

OF THE CIRCULAR FORM IN COMPOSITION 12

LIGHT AND SHADE--ITS APPLICATION TO PAINTING 15

ON COLOUR 30

OF THE THREE PRIMITIVE COLOUR