The house painter, or, Decorator's companion : being a complete treatise on the origin of colour, the laws of harmonious colouring, the manufacture of pigments, oils, and varnishes : and the art of house painting, graining, and marbling : to which is added, a history of the art in all ages
A trade manual on house painting, graining, and marbling by William Mullingar Higgins, published in London by Thomas Kelly in 1841 for working decorators and apprentices. The plates are hand-finished imitations of marble and figured stone in ochre, green, rust and grey, with veining, spatter and crackle patterns usable as textures, endpapers and backgrounds.
