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Pigments

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  • Pigments: a water-powered multiple pestle mill for crushing madder plants. Engraving.
  • Pigments: a mill for grinding colours, and an indigo grinding mill. Engraving by H. Mutlow.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
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Catalogue

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    The materials of the painter's craft in Europe and Egypt : from earliest times to the end of the XVIIth century, with some account of their preparation and use / [Arthur Pillans Laurie].

    Laurie, A. P. (Arthur Pillans), 1861-1949. | Date: 1910
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    Pigments: a mill for grinding colours, and an indigo grinding mill. Engraving by H. Mutlow.

    | Date: 1824 | Reference: 45420i
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    Notes on the composition and permanence of artists' colours / Winsor & Newton.

    Winsor & Newton. | Date: [between 1970 and 1979?]
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    The art of drawing, and painting in water-colours. Whereby a stranger to those arts may be immediately render'd capable of delineating any view or prospect with the utmost exactness; of Colouring any Print or Drawing in the most Beautiful Manner; and of taking off Medals instantly, by various Ways, never before made publick: Intermix'd with several curious Receipts for the Use of Painters, Statuaries, Founders, &c. With instructions for making transparent colours of every Sort; partly from some Curious Personages in Holland, France and Italy; but chiefly from a Manuscript of the Great Mr. Boyle; particularly a Receipt of that Gentleman's, for making a Blue Colour equal to Ultramarine.

    | Date: MDCCXXXII. [1732]
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    Painting materials : a short encyclopaedia / by Rutherford J. Gettens and George L. Stout.

    Gettens, Rutherford J. (Rutherford John) | Date: 1966
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