Artistic house painting / H.W. Johns Manufacturing Co.
A trade catalogue issued in 1895 by the H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co., a supplier of roofing and paint, to show American customers how houses could be finished in colour. Its three pictures are soft colour lithographs of detached houses, presented as architectural renderings. A designer might take from them the practice of pairing wall tones with contrasting roof and trim colours, as in the painted cladding and red roofs shown here.
