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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 29, New Delhi, July 3, 2021
Purples from Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours painted by Patrick Syme (1821)
Friday 2 July 2021
In the late 18th century, German mineralogist Abraham Werner devised a standardized scheme for classifying colors which was later adapted and revised in the 19th century by Scottish painter Patrick Syme (1821).