This section is from the book "Chromatography; Or, A Treatise On Colours And Pigments, And Of Their Powers In Painting", by George Field. Also available from Amazon: Chromatography, or A Treatise on Colours and Pigments, and of Their Powers in Painting.
Olive Lake is a lake prepared from the green ebony, or laburnum, and is of considerable durability, transparency, and great depth, both in water and oil; in which latter vehicle it dries well. The olive of the Definitive Scale, p. 39, is of this pigment.
 
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