210° 79% 0.91
Azuline (or Bleu de Paris)
Colour names
210° 100% 1
Azure
Cited in narrative
0° 0% 0
Black
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- Joanna Mary Boyce: colourist and innovator
- On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
- Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual
- From Colour to Music: James McNeill Whistler
- Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles
- The colours of the biblical past in Owen Jones’s *History of Joseph and His Brethren*
240° 100% 1
Blue
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- Joanna Mary Boyce’s paintboxes
- On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
- Watercolours by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
- John Gorham’s Colour Top
- Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica
- John Ruskin and ‘the gentian blue’
- Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles
- Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy
330° 100% 1
Bright pink
Cited in narrative
28° 100% 0.2
Brown
355° 51% 0.38
Burnt sienna
Cited in narrative
343° 78% 0.87
Cerise
10° 64% 0.58
Chestnut
45° 100% 1
Chrome yellow
120° 95% 0.62
Chromium-based green
215° 100% 0.67
Cobalt blue
29° 72% 0.72
Copper resin
Cited in narrative
5° 51% 0.97
Coralline
57° 18% 1
Cream
Cited in narrative
348° 91% 0.86
Crimson red
120° 100% 0.39
Dark green
Cited in narratives
140° 60% 0.78
Emerald green
202° 100% 0.49
Gentian blue
Cited in narrative
51° 100% 1
Gold
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Persoz, the birth of heritage sciences and medieval colours
- Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica
- From old to new: the colours of William Burges’s Great Bookcase
- The colours of the biblical past in Owen Jones’s *History of Joseph and His Brethren*
120° 100% 1
Green
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- Joanna Mary Boyce’s paintboxes
- The dramatic colours of trade cards
- On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
- Watercolours by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
- John Gorham’s Colour Top
- Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica
- Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles
0° 55% 0.8
Indian red
Cited in narrative
50° 3% 0.92
Lead white
58° 100% 1
Lemon yellow
Cited in narrative
355° 83% 0.89
Madder Carmine
328° 85% 0.79
Magenta
Cited in narrative
295° 99% 0.61
Mauveine
30° 98% 1
Minium
Cited in narrative
39° 100% 1
Orange
3° 71% 1
Orange Vermilion
350° 25% 1
Pink
Cited in narrative
205° 100% 0.33
Prussian blue
300° 100% 0.5
Purple
20° 65% 0.59
Raw sienna
Cited in narrative
33° 48% 0.51
Raw umber
Cited in narrative
0° 100% 1
Red
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- The dramatic colours of trade cards
- On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
- Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica
- From old to new: the colours of William Burges’s Great Bookcase
- John Ruskin and ‘the gentian blue’
- Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles
- The colours of the biblical past in Owen Jones’s *History of Joseph and His Brethren*
- Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy
358° 69% 0.82
Red lacquer
Cited in narrative
4° 66% 0.57
Red ochre
341° 65% 0.59
Red purple
Cited in narrative
222° 92% 0.4
Sapphire
Cited in narrative
8° 100% 1
Scarlet
315° 94% 0.99
Shocking pink
Cited in narrative
197° 43% 0.92
Sky blue
Cited in narrative
54° 51% 0.89
Straw yellow
Cited in narrative
100° 20% 0.94
Tea green
244° 93% 0.56
Ultramarine
21° 28% 0.39
Umber
Cited in narratives
177° 63% 0.7
Verdigris
Cited in narrative
5° 77% 0.89
Vermilion
161° 51% 0.51
Viridian
Cited in narratives
0° 0% 1
White
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- Joanna Mary Boyce: colourist and innovator
- Fuchsine and Fashion: a Bright Pinkish Trend
- The dramatic colours of trade cards
- Watercolours by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
- The Egyptian Court at Sydenham
- Mary Gartside’s abstract afterlife? Blots in George Barnard’s paint manual
60° 100% 1
Yellow
Cited in narratives
- Watercolours by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- All Whistler’s colours in white
- Joanna Mary Boyce: colourist and innovator
- Joanna Mary Boyce’s paintboxes
- On Colour and Taste: John Gardner Wilkinson and *Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours*
- Watercolours by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
- John Gorham’s Colour Top
- Renaissance revival and chemistry: the colours of Italian maiolica
- John Ruskin and ‘the gentian blue’
- From Colour to Music: James McNeill Whistler
- Pure black, blue-black, or red-black: The crucial role of shades in 19th-century silk textiles
- Gottfried Semper and the 'Chemical Proof' of polychromy
46° 94% 0.88
Yellow ochre
359° 0% 1
Zinc white