Structural decoration.
This is a trade catalogue of 1884 published in New York by the H.W. Johns Manufacturing Co., promoting its Asbestos liquid paints to builders and property owners through printed plates of buildings. The pictures are fine-line wood engravings of hotels, villas and houses, shown in crisp black and white with heavy shading on roofs and walls, and a designer can take from them a clear record of late nineteenth-century verandah, bracketed cornice and cupola forms, drawn as architectural views with figures and carriages in the street.
