GENUINE TONE.
889.
If the word tone, or rather tune, is to be still borrowed in future from music, and applied to colouring, it might be used in a better sense than heretofore.
890.
For it would not be unreasonable to compare a painting of powerful effect, with a piece of music in a sharp key; a painting of soft effect with a piece of music in a flat key, while other equivalents might be found for the modifications of these two leading modes.
FALSE TONE.
891.
The word tone has been hitherto understood to mean a veil of a particular colour spread over the whole