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1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xii. 96 The first we shall call prime tints, by which is meant any colour or colours on the surfaces of objects.

1773 Descr. Paintings in Hall of Ossian 29 There is a peculiar propriety in the colouring of these two last paintings. In the first, the bright red of Oscar's drapery, is the prime tint of the piece, and gives a vivacity to the whole.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xiii. 179 Light and shades..become, as it were, our materials, of which ‘prime tints’ are the principal. By these I mean the fixed and permanent colours of each object, as the green of trees, &c.

a1806 J. Barry in R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting (1848) 183 The middle tint, or intermediate passage between the two masses of light and dark.

1848 R. N. Wornum Lect. on Painting vi. 211 Although there are but three primitive colours, painters have nine. These are—Yellow, Red, Blue,..Orange, Purple, Green,..Russet, Olive, Citrine... All other gradations of colour are mere tints of the above; dark or light, according as they are mixed with black or white, or according to the proportions in which they are compounded; thus the variety of tints is infinite.

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 8 (note) Tints differ from each other in being simply lighter or darker, but hues differ in colour.

1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 8 In ordinary usage, however, by ‘tints’ we frequently mean colours generally, and the word is often substituted for ‘hues’.

1879 Pole in Nature 6 Nov. 15/2 (note) In technical language mixtures of a colour with white are called tints, with black, shades.