A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 274
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Chap. CCLXXIV.—What Body will be the most strongly tinged with the Colour of any other Object.
An opake surface will partake most of the genuine colour of the body nearest to it, because a great quantity of the species of colour will be conveyed to it; whereas such colour would be broken and disturbed if coming from a more distant object.