Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

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CHAPTER III.

SECTION IT.

SUNSET.

At Sunset there is even less variety of colour
observable in the illumined parts of objects than
when the sun is higher in the sky. This arises
from the influence of the atmosphere previously
alluded to. A greater quantity of the medium
is loaded with light, and the local colours of the
objects seen through it are consequently affected
to a greater degree thereby. The colour of the
light is also affected by the medium through
which it passes, and it becomes much richer and
more nearly approaching to orange.

The light in the sky, or illuminating power,
is made yellow; but the lights on objects are
rendered of a fleshy colour which is made to