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
A 1910 technical study by chemist A. P. Laurie, published in London and Edinburgh, tracing the pigments, media and materials of painters from ancient Egypt through the seventeenth century. The three pictures are a line drawing of a laboratory distilling apparatus, a dark crack magnified across a pale surface, and a monochrome plate of a seated figure beside a Gothic tower, which suggests period scientific diagrams and old master-style scenes for a designer seeking historical texture.
