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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 463.
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VIII. Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting: 463.

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OF LANDSCAPES.

The colours of the shadows in mountains at a great distance take a most lovely blue, much purer than their illuminated portions. And from this it follows that when the rock of a mountain is reddish the illuminated portions are violet (?) and the more they are lighted the more they display their proper colour.

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