Antwerp blue

American  

noun

1. any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.

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Etymology

Origin of Antwerp blue

First recorded in 1825–35

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Antwerp blue

In landscape, gamboge affords with indigo or Antwerp blue clear bright greens, and with sepia a very useful sober tint.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

What Antwerp blue is to Prussian blue, this is to French blue—that is, as regards colour.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

With a slight quantity of Antwerp blue, varnish in itself will produce a decidedly greenish tint.

From Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades by Ford, J. Sawtelle

To the fugitive, belong indigo and the somewhat more permanent intense blue, Antwerp blue, and the copper blues.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Antwerp blue, a weaker kind of Prussian blue, is even more fugitive.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh