Hooker's green

American  

noun

1. a medium green to strong yellowish green.

2. a nonpermanent pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge, characterized chiefly by its green color.

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Etymology

Origin of Hooker's green

1850–55; named after W. Hooker (died 1832), English illustrator

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Hooker's green

We learned of fancy colours known only in high art—alizarin and grey-pink, purple-lake and Hooker's green.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

As semi-stable, malachite green, bronze, Hooker's green, and Prussian green, must be classed.

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

Hooker's green is a mixed color, put in the box merely to save you loss of time in mixing gamboge and Prussian blue.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John

Hooker's green is a mixed colour, put in the box merely to save you loss of time in mixing gamboge and Prussian blue.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John