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.
Orange Lead is an oxide of lead of a more vivid and warmer colour than red lead, but in other respects does not differ essentially from that pigment in its qualification for the palette.
 
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