Vintage Colours

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an old book with different colored inks on it's pages and the words regfle written in cursive writing
A Beautiful Guide To Blending And Making Colours from 1692 - Flashbak
a room filled with pictures and paintings on the wall
Your Apartment Needs a Portrait of... a Stranger?
Portraits by Belgian, American, French, Russian, and Canadian artists decorate a salmon-walled dining room in costume and set designer Alexandre Vassiliev's Vilnius, Lithuania, home | archdigest.com
an ornate room with green painted walls and wooden floors, chandelier hanging from the ceiling
Houses in literature: The Great Gatsby
The ballroom at the sixteenth-century [link url="https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/chateau-de-sully-burgundy"]Château de Sully in Burgundy[/link] - a classically elegant space likely to be imitated in a Gilded Age mansion.
an old postcard shows a building with green balconies on the upper floor
French Quarter Scene
French Quarter Scene, New Orleans, vintage postcard
an old color chart showing different shades of blue
Image from page 28 of "Colors and coloring in china painting." (1914)
the color chart for wax crayons or oreta leviis pencils, which are
A.W. Faber: Pencil Pusher - Mrs. Easton
an old book with some type of writing on the page and it's color chart
A Beautiful Guide To Blending And Making Colours from 1692 - Flashbak
four different shades of paint on paper with the names and colors in each color scheme
A. Boogert (1692)
These are pages from an extraordinary book created by A. Boogert in 1692. It features 800+ handwritten pages including 400+ hand-coloured pages illustrating colour variations that differ in hue, tonal value and saturation and it predates colour notation systems like the Pantone system by nearly 300 years. A. Boogert (1692). 'Traité des couleurs servant à la peinture à l’eau' [Colour qualities of watercolour paint]. Accessible via https://archive.org/details/boogert1692traitedescouleursbmejanes/