Antwerp blue

noun

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

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First recorded in 1825–35

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Intensities of indigo, Antwerp blue, cobalt, and French ultramarine 104 23.

Prussian blue, indigo, Antwerp blue, Chinese blue, French ultramarine, and German ultramarine.

Antwerp blue is very light and easily worked.

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

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

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