MAKE A MEME View Large Image Schäffer's color samples of the seven simple and natural principal colors.jpg en Schäffer's system relied on colors that could be found in an artist's shop and it called for many mixtures including combinations within a color group reds ...
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Keywords: Schäffer's color samples of the seven simple and natural principal colors.jpg en Schäffer's system relied on colors that could be found in an artist's shop and it called for many mixtures including combinations within a color group reds with reds browns with browns etc Rather than attempt to include all colors in a single sheet he devised an initial page of principal colors and separate pages for colors made from mixtures Schäffer's conception of color is genealogical and hierarchical; he presented the principal colors not as a continuous line but as families each with its own coat of arms from The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006 by Sarah Lowengaard 1769 http //www gutenberg-e org/lowengard/A_Chap03 html Jacob Christian Schäffer other versions PD-old-70-1923 Colors Uploaded with UploadWizard
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