colorBrownColors & materialsThe color of earth, bark, and many mixed dyes. Not Vandyke brown or brown-ochre as single pigment recipes alone.Brown is historically related to Brown ochre.Bancroft’s colour handbook seats brown ochre among earth browns of ordinary paint speech. A named brown beside brown-ochre, not Vandyke brown as a named mix alone.from Edward Bancroft · Philosophy of Permanent Colours, 1813 (and later PD editions)historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesPhilosophy of Permanent Colours · Edward BancroftEdward Bancroft, Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours.