Violet De Mars Purple Ochre Or Mineral Purple Is A Dark Ochre

: ON THE SECONDARY, PURPLE.

native of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. It is of a murrey or

chocolate colour, and forms cool tints of a purple hue with white. It is

of a darker colour than Indian red, which has also been classed among

purples, but has a similar body and opacity, and generally resembles

that pigment. It may be prepared artificially, and some natural red

ochres burn to this colour. Being difficult and sometimes impossible to

procure, Mars violet is often compounded; in which case it is liable to

vary both in hue and stability. As, however, Indian red is always taken

for its basis, the mixture is never wholly fugitive, nor exhibits any

very glaring contrast on exposure.



TTITLE MIXED PURPLE.



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