The primary and secondary hues
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 hues, David Ramsay Hay (1846). 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
A numbered plate of six triangular colour swatches arranged in a pyramid, set within a hatched engraved border, with a red-brown, olive, grey-green, dark olive, brown and orange-brown triangle. This print, titled The primary and secondary hues, is by David Ramsay Hay and dated 1846, and illustrates colour relationships in a systematic diagram.
