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mentioned, has assuredly been painted over two plates, and the crease of the table-cloth at the edge of the table, and yet the final white of the table-cloth is most certainly painted up to it, and stops at it (as also it does, and this is especially remarkable, at the plates of fruit on the other side, the outline of the flat cherries being sharply given by the circumdragged white): and the head is most marvellously brought out; there has (I am not quite sure of any of these assertions respecting method, except in the particular spots described, which may be sometimes exceptional) first been a black ground, part of the figures on the other side of table; on this a yellow wine-glass has been painted, leaving at one side, as it was struck on, the outline of the negro’s most marked features in the black ground. Over this left space, the complexion and such drawing as is required, are given by one coat of the peculiar negro brown of Veronese, which is, of course, struck on and modelled as a light, leaving just an edge of the original black ground between it and the glass yellow, which touched with a vivid brown about the lips serves for an outline.

uniform, and full throughout, 2 brownish heavy and very disagreeable, 3 hardly existent.

8. a. Grave orange yellow, sleeve of St. Peter, 1 full in mass, 2 browner, 3 grey nearly positive.

9. a. Full orange of Magdalene-1, 2, together and much confused, broad and full, 2 I think warmest, 3 greyish brown.

10. a. Deep blue lilac, 1 and 2 together in mass, but 1 coldest, 3 the same as 2, deepened.

11.-Full crimson, 1 full, 2 variously subdued brownish or purplish, 3 the same deepened almost to black.

12. b. Golden green, dress of (Martha?) the principal standing female figure, 1 on edges, highest nearly gold, 2 greener, 3 same passing into black.

13. b. Lining of the above green at the neck, a shot colour very square in its folds, 1 pink, 2 lilac, 3 greenish grey.

14.-Bluish russet green-lower petticoat in same figure, 1 full blue green, struck over brown ground, 2 the said brown ground, more or less lightly touched with the green, 3 full brown and clear.

15. a. White 1 warm not up to yellow, 2, 3, cold grey.

16.-Cold grey-1, 2, 3 alike.

17. a. Lilac of negro boy (pantaloons) before table, 1 white passing into cool lilac very broad, 2 full, 3 same deepened to crimson, 2 and 3 both narrow.

18.-Bluish green-Kneeling boy in front of column-1 blue passing into blue green (struck over) 2 full warm green, 3 same deepened to black.

19.-Orange, in upper dress of negro boy, 1 full gold, rising in one place to golden white, 2 warm orange brown, 3 grey brown, a little greenish.

20.-White, of a dress; seems confused or repainted, but has assuredly been painted over pink, which is seen through a crack. It is disagreeable. The more I looked, the more thoroughly I was puzzled.

Reds 7, 11, unvaried. Lilacs, 4, 6, 10, 13, 17 (Blues, mem, all dark and doubtful); I think greens 2, 12, 14, 18, orange 1, 9, 19, yellow, 3, 5, 8, white and grey, 15, 16, 20.

[This note is from an entry made in the diary a day or two after the notes in the text.]

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