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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.

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].

Notes on the composition and permanence of artists' colours / Winsor & Newton.

Painting materials : a short encyclopaedia / by Rutherford J. Gettens and George L. Stout.

Pigments of flowering plants / by Nellie A. Wakeman.

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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].

Pigments: a mill for grinding colours, and an indigo grinding mill. Engraving by H. Mutlow.

Notes on the composition and permanence of artists' colours / Winsor & Newton.

Painting materials : a short encyclopaedia / by Rutherford J. Gettens and George L. Stout.

Pigments of flowering plants / by Nellie A. Wakeman.