The secondary colours contrasted with the tempered primaries by David Ramsay Hay

Hand-coloured hexagonal colour wheel with six numbered triangular fields in green, blue, purple, brown, orange and yellow-gre

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The secondary colours contrasted with the tempered primaries, 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.

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This hand-coloured plate shows a hexagonal arrangement of six triangular colour fields, numbered 1 to 6, around a central cluster marked with the letters H and B. The title reads "The secondary colours contrasted with the tempered primaries," and the plate is attributed to David Ramsay Hay, dated 1845.

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