objectPaintObjects · Colors & materialsPigment in a binder for coating surfaces. Not oil-paint as one medium alone, and not dye as cloth colouring.Paint is historically related to Oil Paint.Bancroft’s colour handbook seats oil paint among ordinary painting media of pigment in drying oil. A named paint beside oil-paint as a chief historical medium, not dye as cloth colour.from Edward Bancroft · Philosophy of Permanent Colours, 1813 (and later PD editions)historically related to · sourced · documentedsourcesPhilosophy of Permanent Colours · Edward BancroftEdward Bancroft, Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours.