< A Treatise on Painting
Chap. CCXC.—Of the blueish Appearance of remote Objects in a Landscape.
Whatever be the colour of distant objects, the darkest, whether natural or accidental, will appear the most tinged with azure. By the natural darkness is meant the proper colour of the object; the accidental one is produced by the shadow of some other body.
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