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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Illustrations
Maps
Travels Through a European Paintbox
Travels Through an Australian Paintbox
Travels Through an Afghan Paintbox
Travels Through a Mexican Paintbox
Photographs
Bottles of powdered pigments. Reproduced courtesy of Winsor & Newton, Harrow. © Winsor & Newton.
Artists at Papunya, Australia. Reproduced courtesy of Geoffrey Bardon. © Geoffrey Bardon.
A natural paintbox at Jumped Up Creek, Australia. © Victoria Finlay.
A pattern book from 1763 © Victoria and Albert Picture Library. A sampler from the 1860s © Victoria and Albert Picture Library. A Girl with a Baby, Joshua Reynolds. Reproduced courtesy of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. © Dulwich Picture Gallery.
Dunhuang Caves, cave painting, China. Reproduced courtesy of CIRCA Photo Library / © Tjalling Halbertsma.
Manuscript of Pliny’s Natural History (1465). © Victoria and Albert Picture Library.
Cochineal bugs on a cactus leaf. © Victoria Finlay.
The Entombment, Michelangelo (1501). © National Gallery, London.
Saffron poster from Consuegra. © Victoria Finlay.
Red trays. Reproduced courtesy of Winsor & Newton, Harrow. © Winsor & Newton.
Antonio Stradivari. “Parke” violin (1711). Reproduced courtesy of J & A Beare, London. © J & A Beare.
Krishna playing flute to cows, Indian temple (North India). Reproduced courtesy of CIRCA Photo Library / © Martin Palmer.
Sprig of indigo. © Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Santiago de la Cruz in Mexico. © Nell Nelson.
Yellow cuerda seca tile (1600s). © Victoria and Albert Picture Library.
Miner from Sar-e-sang in Afghanistan. © Robert Nickelsberg.
Lapis Lazuli for ultramarine paint. Reproduced courtesy of Winsor & Newton, Harrow. ˙© Winsor & Newton.
Window depicting Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere in south choir, thirteenth century (stained glass), Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France. © Bridgeman Art Library.
Indian Yellow nuggets. Reproduced courtesy of Winsor & Newton, Harrow.© Winsor & Newton.
CREDITS
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The quotations from The Dalai Lama’s Secret Temple: Tantric wall paintings from Tibet, by Ian Baker, 2000 is © Thames & Hudson; the quotations from The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, translated by E.M. Beekman, 1999 are by kind permission of Yale University Press; the quotation from Chauvet Cave, the Discovery of the World’s Oldest Paintings by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel Deschamps and Christian Hillaire, 1996 is © Thames & Hudson; the quotati
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