This application was no more successful than Holbein's own, apparently; and the painter was told to seek his father's gold and Pigments among the peasants who had pillaged the monastery.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
I heaped up a little pile of Pigments on one corner of my palette and flattened them for a high light on a fold in the satin gown.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Here were the rich products of Eastern looms, there the cloths and linen of Rome, further on a smith's shop in full work, beyond that a silversmith's, next door to which was a thriving trader who sold unguents and perfumes, dyes for the ladies' cheeks and Pigments for their eyebrows, dainty requisites for the toilette, and perfumed soap.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty