Manufacturing artists' colourmen
A trade catalogue issued in 1900 by the London colourmen Winsor & Newton, addressed to artists and buyers of painting supplies. The pictures show their wooden paint palettes, oil-colour painting boxes fitted with tubes, brushes and bottles, and a pocket solid sketch book, drawn as crisp black-and-white line engravings with flat grey shading. A designer could take the clean hatched-line technique for tool and product illustration, and the tidy compartmented layouts for organising objects in a flat-lay.
