Merrifield, Mary P.: The art of fresco painting, as practised by the old Italian and Spanish masters, with a preliminary inquiry into the nature of the colours used in fresco painting: with observations and notes (London: Charles Gilpin, 1846)

TO

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR ROBERT PEEL, Bart. M.P.
ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE FINE ARTS,
THIS TREATISE
ON THE ART OF FRESCO PAINTING,
IS,
BY HIS PERMISSION,
' MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
HIS OBLIGED AND OBEDIENT SERVANT,
MARY PHILADELPHIA MERRIFIELD.