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Definition of Scumbled
1. scumble [v] - See also: scumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scumbled
Literary usage of Scumbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sir Joshua Reynolds' Notes and Observations on Pictures: Chiefly of the by Joshua Reynolds, William Mason, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1859)
"The buildings behind are quite light; the shadows oily, yellow scumbled on it.
... Some of the draperies painted black and white, and then oil scumbled on ..."
2. The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a by Joshua Reynolds, Henry William Beechey, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1852)
"The Leda in the Colonna palace, by Correggio, is dead-coloured white, and black
or ultramarine in the shadows; and over that is scumbled, thinly and smooth, ..."
3. The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors by Allan Cunningham (1837)
"The Adonis of Titian in the Colonna Palace is dead-coloured white, with the
muscles marked bold; the second painting has scumbled a light colour over it; ..."
4. The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Allan Cunningham (1830)
"The Adonis of Titian in the Colonna Palace is dead-coloured white, with the
muscles marked bold; the second painting has scumbled a light colour over it; ..."
5. The Art of Painting in Oil and in Fresco, Being a History of the Various by Jean-François-Léonor Mérimée, William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor (1839)
"The Leda, in the Colonna palace, by Correggio, is dead-coloured white and black,
with ultramarine in the shadows ; and over that is scumbled, thinly and ..."
6. The Art of Painting in Oil and in Fresco: Being a History of the Various by Jean-François-Léonor Mérimée, William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor (1839)
"The second painting he scumbled a light colour over it; the light, a mellow flesh
colour ; the shadows, in the lighter parts, of a faint purple hue—at least ..."
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