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 1911 Philadelphia technical history by A. P. Laurie, written for painters and students of art, tracing pigments and artists' materials from ancient Egypt through the seventeenth century. Its pictures are mostly reproduced artworks and craft scenes: a medieval scribe at a desk, a cave drawing of a bison photographed sideways, a Flemish-style engraving of a boy before a cathedral tower, and a painted Egyptian funerary scene with offerings. A designer might take the clear line work of the scribe and the flat, earthy palette of the Egyptian panel as references for historical colour and manuscript-style drawing.
