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Master drawings are popularly identified with the handsome brown color of
their ink. Formerly these sheets were commonly described with the misnomer
"sepia". It is usual today to describe all such drawings as "pen and brown
ink" or "brush and brown wash", because, although a number of different
inks were used, it is difficult to distinguish between them. Of the two
primary kinds of ink, bistre presents more or less the original appearance
at the time of use, and iron-gall ink turns from black to brown with time. |
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