Square and upright pianos.
A trade catalogue of 1884 published by Horace Waters & Co. of New York, offering square and upright pianos to buyers and dealers. The pictures are wood-engraved views of upright pianos with grained cases, carved panels and scrolled legs, showing how veneer figure and ornamental fretwork were rendered in black and white. A designer might take from them the Victorian grain patterns and decorative panel motifs of furniture of the period.
