The primary and secondary colours
David Ramsay Hay · 1798-1866
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A print-ready JPG or TIFF in sRGB with the color profile embedded, made from the museum master and never enlarged.
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All 5 colors in one file, ready to load as swatches in Adobe, Procreate, GIMP or Krita, or as CSS variables.
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The primary and secondary colours, David Ramsay Hay (1845). Via artnap.com
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Why is this public domain? David Ramsay Hay died in 1866; this work is in the public domain.
About this work
This hand-coloured print titled The primary and secondary colours shows a hexagonal colour diagram made of six numbered triangular segments in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, with a central lattice of labelled letters A and H. The sheet carries the heading Example I and the artist credit David Ramsay Hay, dated 1845.
