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Harrison Bros. & Co. · 1899 · Harrison Bros. & Co. · 10 pictures

A trade manual from 1899 published by Harrison Bros. & Co., a paint maker, for house painters and builders, showing how a house should be coloured. The pictures are flat hand-coloured elevations of a rendered house with timber-framed gables, sash windows and brick chimneys, shown in cream, red, grey and green schemes that a designer could borrow for colour palettes of period buildings.

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